The US Department of Justice has filed a motion asking the court to oblige Apple to comply with a court decision on hacking the iPhone of a terrorist involved in the murder of 14 people in San Bernardino. The petition was prompted by Apple CEO Tim Cook's public refusal to help the FBI hack the device, Reuters reported.

War stories from Russians returned from fighting in eastern Ukraine Photo: Dan Levi / Sputnik / Scanpix The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine effectively ended in the autumn of 2015. Most of the Russian citizens who poured into the Donbas as volunteers have since returned home. Officially, there's no one to thank them for their service.

In Brussels, EU leaders agreed on a special status for Great Britain in the EU. British Prime Minister David Cameron announced this on his Twitter.

French President Francois Hollande said that a war could break out between Russia and Turkey. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the radio station France Inter. According to Hollande, such a risk exists due to Turkey's involvement in the Syrian conflict, reports AFP. “Because of this, the UN Security Council is meeting,” the French president added. Hollande also called for increased pressure on the Russian Federation to resume negotiations on Syria.

Chechen police briefly detained three journalists today, according a report by the independent television network Dozhd . Law enforcement grabbed camera operator Olga Pavlova, freelance photographer Konstantin Solomatin, and Finnish journalist Ina Tatika, according to Kheda Saratova, a local human rights worker. Saratova said there are unconfirmed reports that Chechen police suspect the three reporters of coming to Grozny in order to transfer money to armed militants.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation denied the information about the violation of the Estonian air border by a Russian military helicopter. “On February 18, army aviation helicopters did not fly in the specified area,” Interfax quoted the agency’s press service as saying. Earlier, the Estonian Police and Border Guard Department said that on February 18, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter invaded the country's airspace and stayed there for about a minute.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, refuted the plans of the republic's leadership to issue "spiritual and moral passports" to young Chechens. “Some media outlets write that in Chechnya some new ‘passports’ are being issued to young men. I want to remind you that in our country there is only one passport - a citizen of Russia! Everything else is fiction!” he wrote on Instagram.

Photo: Brian Gratwicke / Flickr (CC by 2.0) Royal penguins swim well, but walk badly on land. However, every summer they are forced to get out to Earth to remove offspring. There, there are nothing to eat penguins, so they eat up in advance, get fat, and starve during their stay. Biologist Astrid Villenger, along with colleagues, decided to study how the pingvine gait changes depending on the weight.

Svetlana Gannushkina-about the eviction of the center of education and adaptation of refugee children Photo: Center for adaptation and training of refugee children On Thursday, February 18, in the basement on Novoslobodskaya, where 17 years old was the Center for Adaptation and Education Children, representatives of the city property department replaced the castles and set the alarm. Thus, after almost a year of struggle, the center was left without a premises.

The Kurdish armed group "Kurdistan Liberation Hawks" claimed responsibility for the explosion in Ankara, which killed 28 people. The group said in a statement that the attack was in response to the policies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The statement named a 26-year-old Turkish citizen, a native of the city of Van in the east of the country, as the direct perpetrator of the attack.

Memories and essays about the worst times. Overview of Galina Yuzefovich A weekly literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting and important books published in Russia. In the current review, there are three books about difficult time: “Moscow excursion” Pamela Lyndon Travex, “Legends of modernity: occupation essays” Cheslova Milos and “The pendulum of my life” Barbara Malakhieva-Mirovich. Pamela Lyndon Travex. Moscow excursion. M.: Limbus Press, 2016.

The Academy of Miracles company, which organized the Moscow concert of Emir Kusturica and Goran Bregovic in February 2015, won over 1.1 million rubles from the Russian Authors' Society (RAO). Producer Artur Shachnev, who represented the interests of the Academy of Miracles in court, told the Vedomosti newspaper about this. RAO was a co-defendant in the company's lawsuit against the State Kremlin Palace.

What do you know about US geography? Photo: Sébastien Baussais / Alamy / Vida Press Reading news about primaries in the USA , we realized that sometimes we ourselves do not know where this or that state is. Therefore, we decided to make a test to test the knowledge of the geography of America. That's who will immediately find on the map, where Kennedy was killed, or will show where the hero of DiCaprio crawled in the “ surviving ”?

Pavel Kanygin - about mass arrests and torture of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk Photo: Dmitry Korotaev / Kommersant In the self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, since the fall of 2015, repression against civilians has been continuing. Behind the bars (or, as they say, “on the basement”) were already several thousand people. The reasons for the persecution are very different - this is the reduction of political accounts, and redistribution of property, and random detentions.

Moscow police are searching for a man who reported to authorities the loss of his cat. His call to emergency workers likely would have gone unnoticed, were it not for the fact that he also warned that he'd strapped a bomb to his pet. After attaching the explosives to the animal, it allegedly ran off in an unknown direction. The man did not identify himself during the phone call. The last reported sighting of the kitty was near the 1905 Street Moscow metro station.