As a result of smoke in mine No. 7 in the Prokopyevsky district of the Kemerovo region, at least four miners died. This was reported on the website of the Regional Emergency Situations Ministry. The fate of four more miners remains unknown at the moment, and the rescue operation continues. The remaining 69 of the 77 miners who were in the mine have already been brought to the surface. Smoke at mine No. 7 was recorded on January 20 at 5:15 local time (2:15 Moscow time).

Russian tennis player Ekaterina Makarova became the first quarterfinalist of the Australian Open. The official website of the tournament reports this. In the fourth round match, held on January 20, Makarova, seeded 19th, beat the fifth racket of the tournament, Angelique Kerber from Germany, in two sets with a score of 7:5, 6:4. It took the Russian woman 1 hour and 32 minutes to win. On Sunday, three more participants in the 1/4 finals of the Australian Open will be determined.

A teenager has been arrested in South Valley, New Mexico, USA, suspected of killing five people: a man, a woman, two girls and a boy. reported this on Sunday The Associated Press , citing the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office. Authorities have not yet clarified whether the victims were members of the same family. It is also not clear what relation the 15-year-old had to them. The suspect has been charged with two counts of murder and three counts of child abuse resulting in death.

Crime boss Aslan Usoyan, known under the nickname Ded Khasan, was buried at the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow. This was reported by a Lenta.ru correspondent. Usoyan’s relatives chose this place from among those proposed by the capital’s authorities after Georgia refused to accept the crime boss’s body for burial in his homeland. Usoyan's grave is located near the fence enclosing the cemetery.

Algerians and citizens of other countries taken hostage in In Amenas. . Photo: Ennahar TV / AFP The bodies of 25 dead hostages were found on Sunday, January 20, during the clearing of the gas field in In Amenas, which was held by Islamists. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the Algerian channel Ennahar. The bodies of those killed were found inside the gas processing plant in In Amenas.

Barack Obama and his wife during the oath of office.. Photo: Larry Downing / AFP Barack Obama took the oath of office as US President for the second time, Reuters reports on January 20 . A modest ceremony, attended only by members of the president's family, took place at the White House. The head of the country's Supreme Court, John Roberts, took the oath of office as president.

In North America, the National Hockey League season started on the night of January 20. In the first match of the tournament, the current Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings lost to the Chicago Blackhawks with a score of 2:5, the official NHL website reports. In parallel with the game, two more meetings took place in Los Angeles. In Philadelphia, the Flyers lost 1:3 to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh forward Evgeni Malkin scored one assist.

About 30 foreign nationals who worked at the In Amenas gas field in Algeria are still missing. Data on Sunday, January 20, are provided by Agence France-Presse . The Japanese JGC Corporation, whose employees were taken hostage, stated that it does not know the fate of 17 of its employees: 10 Japanese and seven foreigners. British authorities said they did not know the fate of the seven people.

A total of 23 hostages and 32 terrorists were killed as a result of the hostage crisis at the Algerian gas field In Amenas and the operation to free them. Such data, reports Agence France-Presse , were provided on the evening of January 19 by the Algerian authorities. The government also said that 685 Algerian workers and 107 foreigners were freed during the military operation to regain control of the mine.

In Brazil, three people died as a result of a shooting at a rehearsal at a samba school, BBC News reported on Saturday, January 19. The incident occurred in the city of Sao Geraldo in the state of Minas Gerais in the east of the country. Dancers were preparing for the February carnival in the city of San Joao del Rey when four unknown men on motorcycles opened fire on them. It is not specified where the shooting took place - indoors or outdoors.

The search operation for miners in mine No. 7 in the Prokopyevsky district of the Kemerovo region has been suspended. According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the region, the reason for this was a high concentration of methane, which can lead to an explosion. As a source at the enterprise told the Interfax agency , search work will continue after ventilation and air sampling have been organized.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, beating Kirsten Flipkens from Belgium - 6:1, 6:0. This was reported on the official website of the tournament. Sharapova's opponent in the quarter finals will be her compatriot Ekaterina Makarova, who a few hours earlier defeated Angelique Kerber from Germany - 7:5, 6:4. At last year's Australian Open, Sharapova and Makarova already met each other in the quarterfinals, then Maria won - 6:2, 6:3.

Former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, serving a 4-year sentence in a colony, was taken to the Kiev Oberig clinic for an operation to remove a polyp from the intestines. This is reported on the website of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine. The operation is scheduled for January 21.

Cartoonist Yuri Norshtein suggested that the cause of death in the pre-trial detention center of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky could have been “heart failure” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. A recording of Norshtein's speech is available on YouTube. Speaking at the award ceremony for the Vladimir Vysotsky “Own Track” Prize, Norshtein commented on one of the previous speeches - Dr. Leonid Roshal, who stated that Russia lacks 120 thousand doctors.

A man died as a result of falling from an escalator in the Moscow metro. reported this on January 20 RIA Novosti , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. The incident occurred at about five o'clock in the evening on January 19 at the Chekhovskaya station. As the source said, a man born in 1987 tried to go down a non-working escalator, but stumbled and fell. He died on the spot from his injuries. As Interfax clarifies , the deceased man was a visitor from Mordovia.