Relatives of several dozen passengers who died in the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps in March 2015 have refused compensation offered by the airline. Such a decision, explained the lawyer representing the relatives of the victims of the plane crash, was made due to insufficient, in their opinion, the amount of compensation.

One of the Marines died after being seriously injured in a shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This brings the death toll from the July 16 shooting to five. Injuries, according to updated data, were received by a US Navy recruit and a police officer. CNN On July 16, 24-year-old U.S. citizen, a native of Kuwait, Mohammed Youzef Abdul-Aziz opened fire in two areas of Chattanooga - at the army recruiting center and at the center of the U.S. Navy Reserve.

The leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics decided to withdraw guns with a caliber of up to 100 millimeters from the line of contact. The withdrawal of weapons will be carried out unilaterally, according to a joint statement by DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko and LPR envoy Vladislav Deinego. The statement stipulates that in some areas the withdrawal of weapons will not be carried out yet.

The radical Ukrainian organization "Right Sector", whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation, announced the holding on Tuesday, July 21, of a people's assembly on Independence Square in Kyiv. The veche, according to a statement posted on the Right Sector's Facebook page, will be held under the slogan "Down with the power of traitors!".

American intelligence agencies began collecting data on Vladimir Putin in the 1990s, when the future president of the Russian Federation served as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, writes the British The Times. US intelligence agencies then tried to find out the size of Putin's personal fortune and the source of his origin, the legality of which was in doubt.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vitaly Milonov appealed to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to check whether the actions of Maria Gaidar, who became the deputy governor of the Odessa region, fall under the criminal article of treason. Milonov said this in an interview with the Russian News Service.

The Facebook account of TV presenter and director of MIA Rossiya Segodnya Dmitry Kiselev was blocked a few hours after it was opened. Immediately after the TV presenter opened a Facebook page, several hundred offensive comments appeared on it. Kiselev made the first entry on his page on the social network on July 17 at about 20:00. In an interview with Kommersant, the head of MIA Rossiya Segodnya confirmed that the Facebook page really belongs to him.

The United States has prepared a list of measures to tighten Russian companies, which are subject to sanctions, access to loans in Western financial markets. This is written by the British The Times, citing high-ranking sources in the United States. According to the interlocutors of the publication, for Russian companies that fell under the sanctions, the repayment period of loans may be limited to seven days.

The British tabloid The Sun has published a video showing the young future Queen Elizabeth II and members of her family throwing up their hands in a "Nazi salute". The video, the publication reported, was made in 1933, when Elizabeth was seven years old. Also present in the video are Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret, their mother, and their uncle, the future King Edward VIII.

Photo: NASA-JHUAPL-SWRI The US aerospace agency (NASA) published a video mounted from Pluto's surface photographs made by the New Horizons interplanetary station. NASA.GOV Video Animated Flyover of Plutoʼ ICY Mountain and Plains New Horizons Station started to Pluto in 2006. On July 14, 2015, New Horizons approached Pluto at a minimum distance during the mission. Pluto was opened in 1930 by the American astronomer Claid Tombo.

Michel Platini, head of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), will run for president of the International Football Federation (FIFA). This is reported by the Spanish sports publication As, citing informed sources. According to As, Platini has already won the support of four of the six football confederations that make up FIFA, and thus is the main contender for the presidency of the International Football Federation.

The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has no plans to continue publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. This was stated by the editor-in-chief and publisher of Charlie Hebdo Laurent Suriso in an interview with the German magazine Stern, excerpts from which are quoted by The Washington Post. Souriso said Charlie Hebdo has no intention of becoming "obsessed" with criticizing Islam.

The Russian currency is undervalued by more than 60 percent, according to the compilers of the Big Mac Index, which is published annually by The Economist magazine. In the United States, a Big Mac burger costs $4.79 as of July 2015, and in Russia it costs 107 rubles, which is $1.88 at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation as of July 17. Thus, the exchange rate of 22.34 rubles per dollar would be fair.

The 94th Garrison Military Court returned to the Prosecutor General's Office a criminal case about fraud in the procurement of Mercedes cars for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Security Service, the Kommersant newspaper writes. The main reason for the refusal to consider the case was that the investigation did not familiarize the injured party, the Daimler AG concern, with the results of the investigation.

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