The police of South Korea suspects a 56-year-old man of accidentally arranged the largest forest fire in the history of the country when he was cleaning the graves of his relatives. As a result of the fire, 30 people died, 48 thousand hectares of forest were destroyed. It is reported by Agency France-Presse (AFP) with reference to an anonymous Korean official.

The Moscow City Court sent to the pre-trial detention center the former deputy founder of the Perm Telephone TETTA Aleksey Vysokov, accused of embezzlement in the execution of the state defense order on military field phones. This was reported to TASS in court. In early February, the Moscow City Court softened the preventive measure of Vysokova and the former chief accountant of the plant Elena Grishina, choosing a house arrest for them, TASS reports.

The head of the Pentagon Pit Hegset considers the main military task of the United States to restrain China from the capture of Taiwan, and plans to shift the main responsibility for restraining Russia to Europe. This was reported by The Washington Post, citing the internal document of the US Department of Defense. The publication reports that it got acquainted with the temporary strategic nation -defense guide, in which most of the sections are marked "secret/foreign citizens".

The parties included in the Council of Deputies of the German Island of Wangerog in the North Sea decided to hold an advertising campaign to find candidates for the mayor, Spiegel reports. The elections on the island will be held on August 17, and so far only one candidate announced the participation in them. The advertising campaign under the slogan “You can responsibly form the future with us” organized the Christian Democratic Union, the Social Democratic Party and the Green.

Norway is implemented by one of the largest infrastructure projects in its history - Megatonel Rogfast (Rogfast). The underwater part of this highway will stretch almost 27 kilometers, passing at a depth of 392 meters below the sea level, and will become the longest and deepest automobile tunnel in the world. The purpose of the project is to connect the south and the center of the country and save drivers from seven ferry crossings on the most difficult coastal highway E39.