The Japanese company Double Research & Development introduced the Amenbo manipulator. It allows you to control your computer using all five fingers, reports CrunchGear . Amenbo consists of six main elements: a palm rest and five finger rests, which are connected to the support by wires. Each stand has a built-in sensor that tracks your finger movements and also calculates the pressure your finger puts on the stand.

The structure of the government will be changed in Kyrgyzstan, AKIpress reports . In accordance with the decree, which was signed by the Prime Minister of the Republic Almaz Atambayev , it is planned, in particular, to reduce the number of ministries from 20 to 17. The Ministry of Economic Regulation, in accordance with the plan, will be transformed into the State Committee for Economic Development and Investment. The Ministry of State Property - to the fund of the same name.

In Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister and close associate of the country's president Mohammad Sharif Malekzadeh has been arrested. reported this on June 23 Reuters , citing the Iranian Fars agency . No details were provided regarding the reason for the official’s detention or his place of stay. As DPA notes , several Iranian lawmakers have previously accused Malekzadeh of corruption. In addition, opponents of the deputy minister accused him of attempting to overthrow the theocratic system.

Three Russian boxers have reached the finals of the European Championships taking place this week in Turkey. The finalists of the tournament were Belik Galanov, Dmitry Polyansky and Maxim Koptyakov. Later on June 23, three more Russians will try to make it to the Euro 2011 finals - Georgy Balakshin, Nikita Ivanov and Magomed Omarov, according to the official website of the Russian Amateur Boxing Federation (FBI). The finals of the European Championship will be held on June 24.

Countries brought together by the International Energy Agency (IEA) will release 60 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves to compensate for supply shortages from Libya and lower prices. This was reported on the official website of the IEA. The agency intends to supply 2 million barrels per day to world oil markets within 30 days. The IEA has released strategic reserves only twice since its creation in 1974.

Roman journalists asked Pope Benedict XVI to appoint a patron saint of electronic media. Reporters considered the predecessor of the current Pope John Paul II (in the world Karol Wojtyła) to be the most suitable candidate, reports the Italian portal FNSI . The chairman of the Association of Roman Chroniclers (Sindicato cronisti romani), Romano Bartoloni, made this request to the Pope on June 22 at a collective audience of the Vatican sovereign in St. Peter's Square in Rome.

The Egyptian State Security Court sentenced a local businessman caught working for Israeli intelligence to 25 years in prison, Reuters reports . The court found that 37-year-old Tariq Abdel Razak Hussein received $37,000 from Israeli spies for identifying potential agents for them among employees of Egyptian telecommunications companies. At the same time as Hussein, two Israelis for whom he worked were sentenced in absentia to prison terms. The Israelis received life sentences.

During the operation in the Kizlyar region of Dagestan, two militants were killed. agency reports this The Interfax with reference to the press service of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs. “There are two bodies that were taken out of the forest and provided to investigators,” the agency’s source said. At the same time, he noted that in one of the clashes, a Dagestani law enforcement officer was wounded.

The head of the National Bank of Belarus (NBB), Pyotr Prokopovich, will no longer return to his post. This statement was made by the country's President Alexander Lukashenko , Interfax reports . “I want him to live,” Lukashenko added. The Belarusian president recalled that in early April Prokopovich underwent heart surgery.

The Grand Prix of the Cannes Lions festival in the Press category went to the JWT Shanghai agency for its print advertising for one of the largest manufacturers of suitcases and bags, Samsonite. The names of the Press winners and their works were published on the official website of the festival on June 23. In the advertisement, the creative agency demonstrated what happens to suitcases in the luggage compartment of an airplane.

The Christian Democratic Union of Germany has proposed simplifying the school education system in the country, writes DW-WORLD . The 30-page program must be approved by the party leadership at the end of June and then submitted for discussion at the party conference. The authors of the initiative believe that in Germany there are currently too many types and levels of secondary educational institutions, which is misleading both students and their parents, as well as education system workers.

Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Dmitry Kobylkin has obliged all civil servants of the region to post information about themselves and their photographs on departmental websites, according to the website of the regional government. In accordance with the signed resolution, the names of all employees, their work addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses must be posted on the pages of the authorities.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky promised to punish State Duma deputy from this party Leonid Slutsky for flying to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra by helicopter. The politician stated this in a conversation with radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda" . “This is a very, I think, unseemly act. But he is a very pious person... In any case, we will condemn his behavior and fine him through internal party measures,” Zhirinovsky said.

Russian hockey player Oleg Tverdovsky has put up for sale a mansion in Manhattan Beach (California). According to The Los Angeles Times, the property is offered for $2.149 million. The area of ​​the house, built in 2006 in Spanish style, is 310 square meters. It has five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a living room, a dining room and several fireplaces. According to the publication, the hockey player purchased the property in 2007 for $2.49 million.

On Wednesday, June 22, the last issue of “Newspaper in Kiev” was published. writes about this Kommersant-Ukraine . The newspaper's managers explain the closure by financial claims from the former editor-in-chief and owner of the "Newspaper in Kiev" trademark, Sergei Tikhy, who demanded that the editors buy back the rights to the trademark. Tikhy himself denies the fact of financial demands and blames the new management of the publication for the closure of the newspaper, Kommersant adds.