Mexican authorities have extradited drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” (“Shorty”) Guzman to the United States. This was reported by the Mexican Foreign Ministry. A US government spokesman told The Associated Press that Guzman is in US custody and is being taken to New York. Joaquin Guzman heads the Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa, one of the main suppliers of drugs to the United States.

A small plane carrying Supreme Court Judge Theodore Zawadzki has crashed in Brazil. According to his son, the judge died as a result of the disaster. At least two other passengers also died. Zawadzki oversaw the Petrobras case, a massive corruption investigation that led to the arrest of several dozen Brazilian politicians and businessmen, as well as the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff . The judge was 69 years old.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Facebook a post in which he gave "some assessments of Russian-American relations" during the reign of US President Barack Obama.

The armed forces of Senegal announced the beginning of the invasion of the Gambia, Reuters reports, citing army spokesman Abdou Ndiaye. “We have entered the Gambia,” the colonel wrote to the agency. The Nigerian authorities reported that the country's military aviation conducted reconnaissance flights in the airspace of the Gambia.

Update. All those detained during the procession were released. In Moscow, at the annual march in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed by nationalists in 2009, seven people were detained, OVD-Info reports. According to the publication, they are being taken to the Arbat police station. Among those detained is an activist named Marta Khromova, who was allegedly detained for holding a rainbow flag.

In Senegal, he took the oath of office as President of the Gambia, Adam Barrow, who won the presidential election in December 2016. The ceremony was broadcast by the Senegalese TV channel RTS. The ceremony was held on the territory of the Embassy of the Gambia. The current leader of the Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, who has ruled the country since 1994, has refused to step down.

After six years of silence, Gorillaz released a video for the new song “Hallelujah Money”. The track was recorded together with the English musician Benjamin Clementine, who in 2015 received a prestigious Mercury Prize music award. Uproxx Hallelujah Money (Feat. Benjamin Clementine) - Gorillaz In 2017, a new Gorillaz album will be released. The exact release date is not yet called.

On Green Avenue in Moscow, two police officers were injured while trying to detain a suspect. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The offender fired from a traumatic weapon, writes the Moscow agency. After wounding the police, he fled. It is not known what case the suspect was involved in. source An Interfax calls the man a thief. The UK confirmed the injury of two police officers.

A blogger from Yekaterinburg, Ruslan Sokolovsky, who is accused of insulting the feelings of believers and extremism for videos of catching Pokemon in a temple, has been charged with illegal circulation of special technical equipment designed to secretly obtain information (Article 138.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The case is connected with a pen with a built-in video camera, which was found during a search of Sokolovsky's house, his lawyer Alexei Bushmakov said.

A new department will be built in the Central Clinical Hospital, subordinate to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation (TsKB UDP), to treat the head of state and other high-ranking officials. It is reported by Reuters, citing sources. According to them, the department will be intended "for Putin and his entourage." According to the agency, it will be a three-story building with an area of ​​12,000 square meters. The department has ten patients.

Channel One admitted to leaking the last episode of Sherlock. According to the channel's statement, the episode ended up on the network due to the negligence of an employee. What this employee did wrong is unknown. The third episode of the fourth season in Russian voice acting hit the Web a day before the show. In Russian, the series was shown simultaneously with the release on the BBC. The creators of the series asked fans not to distribute the leaked series.

Who helps the founder of Facebook run Facebook: Bloomberg Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook and one of the most popular users of the social network (although he is overtaken by some stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Shakira). On his page, he reports on trips around the world, talks about his family and at the same time shares the news of Facebook itself. Bloomberg told how many people are involved in the work on Mark Zuckerberg's account.

The 20th Century Fox studio released a new trailer for the film Logan - the third and final picture about the aged Wolverine from the “X -Men”. The protagonist is still played by Hugh Jackman. In the picture, Logan meets Laura Kinny, a mysterious girl with superpowers, who loves Wolverine very much. And she has almost the same claws! 20th Century Fox Logan | Trailer 2 [HD] | 20th Century Fox The director of Logan was James Mangold. The film will be released in early March 2017.

Government experts refused to cancel the Yarovaya package, as demanded by the 100,000 Russian citizens who signed the petition.

In early January, the press got the concept of the Ministry of Health, concerning the fight against tobacco. Officials are proposing several drastic measures, such as tightening regulations on e-cigarettes and hookahs, and a total ban on tobacco purchases for people born after 2015. Meduza looked at how and how much Russians smoke. Sources: The Tobacco Atlas, World Health Organization* *Data are from a WHO global study published back in 2010.