The Minsk Regional Court sentenced German citizen and medic Rico Krieger to death. This was reported by the projects "Belorussky Gayun" , "MotolkoPomogi" and the human rights center "Vesna" . According to human rights activists, the sentence was handed down on June 24, 2024. Krieger's LinkedIn profile states that he works for the German Red Cross. According to MotolkoPomogi, the man is 30 years old. Previously, he worked as a security specialist in the US State Department's Berlin office.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Lithuania has acquired an official cat. They named him Rango. This was announced by the head of the department Gabrielius Landsbergis on his page on the social network H. "Rango was rescued from our backyard and immediately promoted to the official cat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania," Landsbergis wrote. He also posted a photo of the dark-colored kitten. His gender was not specified.

The popular mobile game Hamster Kombat should be banned. This was stated in an interview with the Parliamentary Newspaper by the head of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, Anatoly Aksakov. "Such things must be stopped. In my opinion, this is clearly fraud. Manipulation and use of the psychology of citizens. Especially those who do not really want to work, but dream of being able to play with a minimum of effort and get rich," he said.

Interview comedian Pavel Zalutsky, who was squeezed out with TNT Since 2017, the stand-up comedian Pavel Zalutsky played on Russian television: first in the program “Open Microphone”, and then in the “Women's Standup on TNT”. Zalutsky - open gay. In the “Women's Standup” he usually joked about the stereotypes about gays and ridiculed homophobia.

Southern European countries, in particular Greece, Croatia and Italy, have been hit by a wave of “hellish heat,” reports the American television channel CNN. According to him, the local Ministry of Culture in Greece has ordered the closure of the country's largest cultural landmark, the Athenian Acropolis, during the day. Access to it will be closed from midday to five o'clock in the evening.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony for espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code), RIA Novosti reports . According to the investigation, Gershkovich "on assignment from the CIA" collected data on the activities of the defense company Uralvagonzavod. The case was sent to court on June 17. Since then, only two hearings have been held, It's My City writes , both behind closed doors.

Christina Haukongo, a senior cultivator at the research group MycoHab, grows oyster mushrooms on cut weeds and then processes them into blocks for building houses, The Guardian reports . According to the publication, Namibia, which has a population of about 2.7 million people, needs to build at least half a million new homes to address the acute housing shortage. According to 2016 data , almost 90% of households earn less than $150 a month and cannot afford to build a house.

In the first half of 2024, the most in-demand jobs on the Russian labor market were sales specialists, blue-collar workers, as well as specialists in the production and maintenance of equipment and construction personnel, RBC writes , citing research by PEC and the recruiting platform hh.ru Thus, in the first six months of this year, more than a million vacancies were posted for sales specialists. Another million were posted for blue-collar workers.

In the Belotserkovsky district of the Kiev region, a woman attempted to set herself on fire near the local court building. This was reported by the Ukrainian publication Strana. According to the publication, the woman set herself on fire in protest against the authorities' refusal to grant her husband a deferment from mobilization. She was reportedly hospitalized in a local hospital with burns covering 80% of her body.

An assassination attempt was made in Lviv on former member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Iryna Farion. The first to report this were local journalist Marta Oliyarnik on her Facebook page and member of parliament Ihor Zinkevich on his Telegram channel. Oliyarnik wrote that the assassination attempt took place on Masaryk Street, Farion was taken away by an ambulance.

I cannot breathe myself, and doctors persuade me to make a transplant of the lungs. But there is another way - and I choose it Tasya Sheremet is an activist and former Novaya Gazeta journalist. It suffers from a rare genetic disease-cystic fibrosis, in which the viscosity of fluids in the body and the work of important organs-the lung, gastrointestinal tract, liver are disrupted. In Russia, people with this diagnosis live on average up to 20-25 years, in the USA and Europe up to 50.

Extreme heat could be a major factor in the largest outbreak of bird flu among humans in the US, The Guardian reports . The publication notes that cases of bird flu in humans have been recorded in Colorado among employees of a poultry farm. This is the first time that several cases of the disease have been identified in the US. Earlier, as The Guardian claims, one employee of a dairy farm fell ill with the flu.

Two thirds of Russians (66%) cannot afford to ignore calls and messages from management outside of working hours. This is the conclusion reached by specialists from the job search portal Superjob. The portal conducted a survey from June 1 to June 16, in which three thousand people from all Russian regions took part. In total, residents of 563 settlements over 18 years old, with permanent employment and managers were involved in the survey.

Airports, banks, exchanges, hospitals and emergency services have encountered problems. The failure did not affect Russia On July 19, a global failure occurred in the Windows system from the Windows system. He greatly influenced the work of infrastructure in Europe, Asia, the USA and Australia - airports, exchanges and hospitals worked with serious failures. The Internet was filled with photographs with “blue screens” (Blue Screen of Death), that is, the screens of computers on Windows.

The number of women in Russia who have a higher education and decide to have a child has decreased to 43.8% of the total number of women giving birth, the Telegram channel "Mozhem Obysheniya" reports , citing the annual report of Rosstat. As the Telegram channel writes, this is a record low in eight years. Statistics began to be kept in 2016, while the trend towards a decrease in the number of mothers with higher education has been observed over the past five years.