The Nigerian army has captured the last base of the Islamist movement "Boko Haram" in the forest Sambisa, said Nigerian President Muhamaddi Buhari. According to him, the Boko Haram militants no longer have bases, and now they will have to retreat. Soon, according to Buhari, the Nigerian army will finish off the remnants of the Islamist movement. The President claims that the decisive attack was carried out on Thursday, December 22.

The website of the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk region posted a text titled “Saving children from cyber crimes”, which talks about how to recognize a suicidal tendency in a teenager. The first paragraph of the text says that "foreign intelligence ideologists and psychiatrists" have developed tactics for "population destruction" with the help of neurolinguistic programming. These tactics, the article claims, are used online by foreign military forces.

Three people have been detained in Tunisia on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist attack at a fair in Berlin, the BBC reports, citing the Tunisian Interior Ministry. Detained from 18 to 27 years old, one of them is the nephew of the perpetrator of the Berlin terrorist attack Anis Amri. A relative of the terrorist admitted during the arrest that he kept in touch with Amri through the Telegram messenger. He also stated that he supports the Islamic State.

In Arkhangelsk on December 24, a solemn opening ceremony of the monument to Joseph Stalin took place. This was reported in the public OnLine Arkhangelsk. The monument is installed in the parking lot of the business center at st. Gagarin 44/2. The monument was erected back in October 2016, but local communists hoped to find some other place for it. Local authorities protested against the installation of the monument, and in the end it was decided to leave it on private property.

Update. The press service of the PEN Center, commenting on the appeal of members of the organization to Putin, said that the leaders of the center "do not participate in this." “This is not our initiative. We have a group of “liberal” oppositionists who are trying to conflict with us and are pursuing their own line,” the organization said.

An explosion occurred on the territory of a closed military arsenal near the village of Urman in Bashkiria, as a result of which one person died. According to a TASS source, the man tried to dig up ammunition, but an explosion occurred during the excavation. The website of the local Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that the explosion occurred as a result of penetration of unidentified persons into the territory of the arsenal.

The UN Security Council on the evening of Friday, December 23, adopted a resolution condemning the construction of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories. 14 members of the Security Council, including Russia, voted for the resolution. The US abstained from voting. Previously, the adoption of such resolutions was invariably blocked by the United States, which vetoed it.

The Order of Malta published an appeal to Pope Francis with a request not to get involved in the internal affairs of the Knights of Malta and not to interfere in the situation with the resignation of Grand Chancellor Albrecht von Beselager.

The authoritative magazine was faced with the oddities in the work of its battery Photo: Apple The American Consumer Reports magazine, which is published by the Non -Profit organization of Consumers Union, for the first time in the history of the MacBook laptop line, did not recommend readers to buy a new model - MacBook Pro. The journal’s employees tested three different versions of laptops and in all encountered problems in the battery life. And, it seems, the Safari browser is to blame.

Nintendo plans to release two to three mobile games every year starting in 2017, said Tatsumi Kimishima, president of the gaming company. The first mobile game release for Nintendo was the platform game Super Mario Run, which became available on iOS on December 15, 2016. During 2017, Nintendo plans to release mobile versions of Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing. Kimishima stated that he believes Super Mario Run will eventually reach over 100 million downloads.

The total debt of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to lawyers by appointment is 700 million rubles, Kommersant writes. In some cases, this leads to the fact that state defenders do not go to work as a sign of protest and do not attend investigative actions. The Federal Chamber of Lawyers of Russia notes that the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnoyarsk Territory has the largest debt - 17.7 million rubles.

US President Barack Obama signed a bill extending the Magnitsky Act to the whole world. Previously, the act allowing the United States to include in the sanctions lists of persons involved in the infringement of human rights was valid only for Russians. The bill to expand the "Magnitsky Act" is part of a package of laws on the US defense budget.

Most people associate comics with Marvel and DC superheroes, but in addition to popular commercial comics, there are a huge number of independent illustrators and artists. They draw funny characters and come up with touching life stories. Meduza has collected six cute comics, including one about talking animals and a sad ghost! Rupert Fawcett Fawcett is a famous British animator and screenwriter.

Outsani Susan Hinton and other news from children's publishers The Literary critic of Medusa Galina Yuzefovich talks about three books for adolescents (published by children's publishers), which will be interesting to read to adults: “Outs of outline” Susan Khinton, Karma Katie Ostler and Miss Cheryti Marie-Od Murai. Susan Hinton. Outsuits. M.: LiveBook, 2017. Translation by A.

US President-elect Donald Trump said he was ready for a new arms race, from which his country would definitely emerge victorious. Trump's statement was a commentary on his tweet about the need for the United States to increase its nuclear arsenal. “Let there be an arms race. We will surpass them all on every count and outlive them all,” the president-elect said. With whom exactly the United States plans to compete in the arms race, Trump did not say. Also on Friday, Dec.