The Nigerian authorities, after checking the detained Russian plane, allowed it to continue flying. This is stated in the statement of the French Ambassador to Nigeria. light helicopters The An-124 aircraft with two Gazelle on board will depart from the Nigerian city of Kano to the capital of Chad, the city of N'Djamena, where it was originally heading. The Russian plane was chartered by the French peacekeeping mission.

The Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes in Syria. According to Syrian state television, targets near the international airport of Damascus and in the city of Dimas, located near the border with Lebanon, were bombed. There were no reports of casualties. According to preliminary information, the target of Israeli aviation was the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, which were sent from Syria to Lebanon, to the militants of the Shiite organization Hezbollah.

Shot: Kidzidzi Kidzidzi / YouTube The surveillance camera in the Canadian city of Kalgary captured the long attempts of the BMW driver to leave a small parking lot. The woman took four minutes, and in the process she managed to hurt a red car behind her. As stated in the description for the video, the owner of the red car (he drives up later) helped the woman leave the parking lot, not knowing that she had damaged his car.

Image: Eric Fisher / Mapbox The developer of Mapbox Eric Fisher created a card on which more than 6.3 billion tweets with a nuclear power plant are applied. Fisher collected data for such a card for three and a half years, while the amount of information in compressed form is about three terabytes (4 more gigabytes are added every day). Image: Eric Fisher / Mapbox On the blog, Fisher talks about the problems that he encountered in the process of visualizing such a volume of data.

The Italian football club Parma has been sold to a Russian-Cypriot consortium. The deal amounted to 5 million euros, while the new owners assume obligations to pay the club's debts. The names of investors are not disclosed, it is only reported that they work in the oil industry. “I can say that both sides are satisfied with the terms of the agreement,” Parma director Pietro Leonardi (English). Football Italia Parma Football Club was founded in 1913.

In Athens, after a demonstration, which took place on December 6 in memory of the killed by police teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos, 294 people were detained, 43 of them were detained. The action, in which 6 thousand people participated, outgrown into clashes with the police and riots on the streets of cities - demonstrators broke shops of stores, set fire to garbage tanks and defeated bus stops. The center of Athens caused significant damage. During the riots, 12 police officers were injured.

On December 7, the drummer Igor Dotsenko died, who performed in DDT and Chizh & Co. This was announced by the St. Petersburg musician Alexei Vishnya. Igor Dotsenko was 61 years old. Photo: Dmitry Sukhodolsky / Interpress / Photoxpress Igor Dotsenko Today, the great rock-drummer Igor Dotsenko died. One of the best people of this world. Alexey Vishnya Igor Dotsenko was born on July 16, 1953.

Viktor Shenderovich and Lev Rubinstein were summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee in the case of embezzlement of funds during the organization of the Books in the Parks festival.

As a result of the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, 2 people died - a passenger and a flight attendant. This was reported in the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to updated data, there were 7 people on board the helicopter - four passengers and three crew members. According to the main version , the accident occurred due to engine failure. The helicopter crashed near the Toboyskoye oil field.

Passenger Mi-8 helicopter crashed 200 km from Naryan-Mar. The pilot of the helicopter got in touch and said that everyone on board was alive. At the same time, according to TASS , there are injured and dead as a result of the accident. In total, there were six people on board the Mi-8, of which three were crew members. The reasons for the crash were not reported. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, all six were injured - they will be taken to hospitals in Naryan-Mar.

On December 7, al-Qaeda leader Omar Farooq was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan. Three other militants died with him. Farouk's death was confirmed by the Pakistani authorities and the Taliban. [Omar Farooq] was the first Pakistani to be appointed to a high position in Al Qaeda, he was responsible for operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan (English). Reuters On December 6, another al-Qaeda leader, Adnan el-Shukri-Jumaa, was killed in Pakistan.

Photo: Twitter The photograph of France President Francois Hollande in a fur cap and a fur coat - objects of the Kazakh national costume, presented to him by Nursultan Nazarbayev spread in social networks. The publication of the picture caused numerous ridicule of Hollande. In particular, he is compared with Borat - the satirical character of Sasha Baron Cohen.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in an interview with Die Welt am Sonntag, accused Russia of "causing problems" for Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, which have signed association agreements with the EU. Russia, according to Merkel, is pursuing an anti-European policy, and the annexation of Crimea is just one example. The Chancellor recalled the conflicts in Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Continued: Nigeria allows Russian plane with helicopters on board to continue flying The plane, detained on December 6 in the Nigerian city of Kano, is Russian, but French cargo was transported on board. This was told by the press attache of the Russian Embassy in Nigeria Artem Romanov. Earlier, the Russian embassy denied the information that the plane that crash landed in Nigeria belongs to Russia.

An Amsterdam court declared the Dutch company Mexx, a manufacturer of fashionable clothes and accessories, bankrupt. The decision applies to the three companies Mexx Holding Netherlands BV, Mexx Europe Holding BV and Mexx Europe Holding International BV. All chain stores will continue to operate. Mexx representatives hope to restart the company. “The bankruptcy of Mexx is largely due to the decline in buying activity during the financial crisis.