A passenger plane made an emergency landing in Taiwan on Wednesday. Focus Taiwan News Channel, citing the local fire department, reports that 45 people from the plane showed no signs of life, nine people were injured. According to preliminary information, the incident occurred with a twin-engine turboprop aircraft ATR 72 of TransAsia Airways. The plane crashed at Magong Airport on Penghu Island at about 19:00 local time (about 15:00 Moscow time), the report said.

The representative of German Chancellor Georg Streiter said that Angela Merkel supports the EU’s readiness to speed up the process of introducing new restrictive measures against Russian citizens and companies in connection with the situation in Ukraine, Interfax reports on Wednesday, July 23 . “The German Chancellor believes that the (EU) decision on tightening sanctions is necessary,” Streiter said.

The fate of all 58 people on board the TransAsia Airways ATR 72 plane that crashed on Wednesday remains unclear, Taiwan's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) director general Jean Shen told reporters. This was reported on the Focus Taiwan News Channel website . The official said the plane was about to go around when air traffic controllers lost contact with it. According to him, at that time the ATR 72 was at an altitude of about 300 feet (92 m). The plane was 14 years old.

Star Rated Room - Available July 24th Ball on an oil needle Once every four years, Russian television viewers are immersed in football. And they will learn what football fans know without any world championships. That Russian football players play so-so, that our team lags behind not only the recognized giants, but also the strong middle peasants, that there are no talented youth in Russia. All this was not happy before, but now it looks especially sad.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting with Russian trade representatives on Wednesday, called on Russian trade missions abroad to create their own pages on social networks and other Internet platforms, Prime reports . Medvedev noted that more than half of Russian trade missions are already present on the Internet. “And, of course, we should have everything,” he said.

reported on Wednesday, July 23 Roskomnadzor press secretary Vadim Ampelonsky said that the control agency blocked the Internet blog "Humpty Dumpty", which published correspondence between Russian politicians, ITAR-TASS . Ampelonsky noted that Roskomnadzor sent a notification to the hosting provider about the need to remove the information “based on the ruling of the Smolninsky Court of St. Petersburg.” “This was not done.

photo by Corbis/All Over Press The third generation of luxury Tesla electric cars is capable of revolutionizing the auto industry. What are Elon Musk and his team counting on? Owners and fans of the products of the luxury electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors found a dream last week. Elon Musk's company announced its readiness to introduce a new sedan to the market in 2017 - Model 3.

reported on Wednesday, July 23 Acting head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov said that the gambling zone in Crimea will be located on the territory of Greater Yalta, ITAR-TASS . Aksenov emphasized that the gambling zone is a “specific business” that “will not function throughout the entire republic.” “There will be a local place in the Greater Yalta area. All this will be located in one place in a closed area,” said the acting director. Head of the Republic of Crimea.

Politicians from the ruling conservative Christian party of Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel, spoke in favor of depriving Russia of the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup in connection with the crash of a Malyasia Airlines Boeing 777 plane on July 17 in the Donetsk region, DW reported on Wednesday, July 23.

The State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF), at the request of Roskomnadzor, introduced a moratorium on the assignment of new terrestrial TV frequencies, which some paid channels hoped to use in order to circumvent the ban on displaying advertising, the Vedomosti newspaper wrote on Wednesday, citing sources. The ban concerns the issuance of new on-air TV licenses for cities with a population of less than 100,000 people, a Roskomnadzor representative clarified.

Rosselkhoznadzor does not rule out the possibility of a complete suspension of food supplies from Ukraine during negotiations on the European integration of Ukraine, assistant to the head of the department Alexey Alekseenko told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. Rosselkhoznadzor has already invited the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine to hold negotiations, Alekseenko said. “Maybe we will be able to resolve something at the negotiations themselves, and then not stop supplies.

The Dutch Safety Board (NSB) has assumed responsibility for investigating the circumstances of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crash on July 17 in the Donetsk region, Interfax reported on Wednesday, July 23 . The organization will be responsible for coordinating the work of teams of investigators from a number of countries, including Ukraine, Malaysia, Australia, Germany, the USA, Great Britain, Russia, as well as representatives of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

India's largest online store Flipkart may soon announce a new round of investments worth $1 billion, the writes Indian newspaper The Economic Times on Wednesday, July 23. According to the newspaper's sources familiar with the participants in the deal, half of this amount will be invested by the online store's current investors - the American funds Tiger Global and Accel Partners, as well as the DST fund of Russian businessman Yuri Milner , who first invested in Flipkart in May.

Photo by RIA Novosti The return of Igor Strelkov's supporters to Russia could make its political landscape much less predictable The appearance of “black swans” for Russia from the once traditional August seems to be moving to July. In the middle of the summer of 2013, judge Sergei Blinov sentenced Alexei Navalny to a real prison term, ruining the Kremlin’s beautiful game of neutralizing the most annoying oppositionist through the election of the capital’s mayor.

The founder of the bankrupt Mezhprombank and former senator Sergei Pugachev disclosed information about his property, Interfax reports on Wednesday, July 23, citing the press service of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). In this case, comments can be provided following the court hearing on July 25. Pugachev received a court order to seize his assets worth 1.171 billion pounds sterling (more than $2 billion) on July 1.