In the West Bank of the Jordan, a Palestinian broke into a house in the Kiryat Arba settlement and stabbed a 13-year-old girl sleeping there. The attacker was killed by security personnel who heard the alarm and arrived at the house. One of them was wounded. The name of the murdered girl was Hillel Yaffe Ariel. US State Department spokesman John Kirby confirmed that she was a US citizen. The attacker was identified as 19-year-old (according to other sources, 17-year-old) Mohammed Traaira.

The authorities of Rostov-on Don introduced an emergency regime in the city due to strong rain, during which, according to the police, one person died. According to the local administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on the Budennovsky Avenue, the girl was covered with a stream of water under the car. Interfax reports that because of the rain, hundreds of people cannot get home.

US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced the lifting of the ban on military service for openly transgender people. Carter emphasized that only the qualifications of a person are important for service, and there should be no other kind of barriers. In order to completely switch to the new rules, the units of the US armed forces have a year.

The Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Russian Federation, Pavel Astakhov, will resign after his vacation. RBC reports this with reference to two sources in the presidential administration. “Astakhov wrote an application for leave with subsequent dismissal. In the coming days, he will go on vacation and will not return to his previous job,” the publication’s source said. Earlier, RBC, citing sources, reported that Pavel Astakhov wrote a letter of resignation .

The site for the purchase and sale of cars "Auto.ru" introduced artificial intelligence into its mobile application: the user can photograph the car on the street, and the application using neural networks will determine which brand and model it is. But it turned out that artificial intelligence has the ability to “see” the car in any image - even in the photograph of a person.

The main prize of the 38th Moscow International Film Festival was awarded to the film "Daughter" by Iranian director Reza Mirkarimi. Farhad Aslani, who played in this film, received the award for best male role. 13-year-old Teresa Malvar from the Philippine film Veil was recognized as the best actress. Danish Puk Grasten won the Best Director award for her debut film 37.

Russia’s Ministry of Justice has added the Andrei Rylkov Foundation, a nonprofit organization involved in HIV and hepatitis prevention, to its “foreign-agents” registry. The foundation is the 134th nonprofit to be added to the list. Founded in 2009, the foundation takes a “harm-reduction” approach to working with drug addicts, aiming not to prohibit their harmful behavior, but to reduce its consequences (namely, the spread of diseases like HIV and hepatitis).

The ultraviolet chamber of the Khabble telescope managed to fix a powerful polar radiance on Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system. Photo: NASA, ESA, J. NICHOLS / University of Leacester Polar radiance occurs in planets with a magnetosphere. It occurs due to interaction with charged particles of the solar wind.

Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On June 30, Pavel Astakhov, the Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation, resigned, RBC told RBC with reference to his sources. Officially, this information has not yet been confirmed. "Medusa" recalls the most vivid statements of the children's ombudsman (after all, it is they who will be remembered).

US military sailors, detained in January 2016 in the territorial waters of Iran, during interrogations provided official and confidential information, including passwords for their phones and laptops. This is stated in the report of the US Navy with the results of the investigation of the incident. Some of the sailors revealed the technical characteristics of their boats and the details of their duties.

The Russian Orthodox Church has welcomed a decision by the country’s Supreme Court to dissolve Moscow's Church of Scientology.

Brief biography of Ahmed Chataev - the alleged organizer of the attack in Istanbul Photo: Impact Press Group / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta On June 28, a terrorist attack occurred at Istanbul airport: 43 people were killed, more than two hundred were injured. Eight people participated in the attack. Those who arranged a terrorist attack do not say the authorities, but, according to the Turkish media, the organizer of the attack on the airport was a native of Chechnya Ahmed Chataev.

Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted the ban on the sale of tour packages to Turkey. This was reported by the press service of the Kremlin. The President also instructed the government of the Russian Federation "to take measures to lift the ban on charter flights between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey." The ban on the sale of tours to Turkey was introduced at the end of November 2015 as part of Russian sanctions against Turkey.

The musician Ilya Lagutenko launched an interactive project “ Pirate Copies ”, in which anyone can record their “pirate” versions of the songs of the group “Mummy Troll”. The project was developed by the Sverdlovsk agency Red Pepper Creative. To record your “pirate copies” of songs, you will need a camera and a microphone (the site does not work from mobile devices): the user needs to log in through one of the social networks, choose a song and start singing.

Viktor Ozerov, a Russian senator and the co-author of controversial new legislation, says the draft laws now headed to President Putin's desk for final approval could be amended, if Russian telecoms can demonstrate that the new requirements would necessitate significant hikes in Russians' phone bills. Ozerov promises that the Federation Council will reassess the laws and make any necessary changes to prevent a dramatic rise in the costs of telecoms services.