San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed a lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump over his executive order against so-called sanctuary cities — cities whose authorities refuse to hand over illegal immigrants to the federal authorities for deportation. The plaintiffs are the City and County of San Francisco, while the defendants are President Trump, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly and Acting Attorney General Dana Boente.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin expressed his regret to Mexico over a "President Trump is right" tweet that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote after signing the decree to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.

The Moscow department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) reported the discovery of a cartel agreement in the procurement of medicines by government agencies for a total amount of more than 403 million rubles. According to the department, the companies BSS and AMT entered into a conspiracy. As a result, at 107 auctions the starting price was reduced slightly (in most cases by no more than 1 percent).

Tatyana Moskalkova, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, called the extradition of blogger Alexander Lapshin planned by the Belarusian authorities to Azerbaijan unacceptable. “I consider it unacceptable to extradite a Russian citizen, independent journalist Alexander Lapshin from the territory of the Union State of Russia and Belarus to the Republic of Azerbaijan,” she said.

US authorities have allowed 872 refugees to enter the country, said Kevin McAlinan, a spokesman for the border service. They are expected to arrive in the US this week. President Trump's temporary refugee ban outlines the criteria by which the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security can allow a refugee to enter on an individual basis, the official recalled.

Nickite Belykh’s lawyer - about what is happening in prison with the former governor of the Kirov region Photo: Mikhail Postuev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On January 31, it became known that the former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, who is under arrest on charges of receiving a large bribe, will be transferred from the Lefortovo investigative to the sailor silence. There the politician will undergo an examination in a prison hospital.

On January 31, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratiev accepted the resignation of the head of the Apsheron region, Andrei Kravchenko, who had held the position since 2009. The official filed the petition after the governor, during an unscheduled visit, criticized the district authorities on Twitter and posted a picture of a red carpet being laid for him in the snow at one of the unfinished projects. “It seems that the authorities here do not understand what needs to be done.

Цепкохвостый дикобраз Приклз (в буквальном переводе «Иголка») из зоопарка Миннесоты грызет батат , аккуратно держа его в лапах. Sweet potatoes make the perfect afternoon snack...just ask our prehensile-tailed porcupine, Prickles! Thanks to Zoomobile staffer, Chris N., for this awesome video! :) Опубликовано Minnesota Zoo 29 января 2017 г.

Reporting Eugene Berg from Orsk - a city with the highest HIV level in Russia Photo: Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" On January 25, the Russian government refused to allocate an additional 17.5 billion rubles a year for the fight against HIV. Without this money, by 2020, the authorities will be able to provide therapy with only half of the infected residents of Russia, and voluntary testing for HIV will be able to pass annually no more than a quarter of the population.

In the UK came into force a law on the posthumous pardon of men who were convicted of homosexual relationships. Thus, as they say on the website of the British government, thousands of people have been officially pardoned in the country. The law also guarantees pardons for living convicts who go through a formal expungement process. This restriction was introduced so that those convicted of rape or sex with minors could not be considered pardoned.

The number of those convicted under articles on terrorism in Russia more than doubled in 2016. This is stated in the report of the Judicial Department at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. In total, 182 people were prosecuted under articles on terrorism. In 2015, 87 defendants were convicted. The number of those convicted under "extremist" articles has increased by about 20 percent. In 2016, 661 people were convicted.

The Austrian authorities announced their intention to ban the wearing of completely face-covering clothing in public places, such as the burqa and niqab. The ban will apply in particular to schools and courts. According to CNN, the decision will come into force after the approval of Parliament. The ban is contained in the reform program prepared by the coalition government, which is expected to be carried out in the next year and a half.

FSB officers arranged a seizure of documents in the State Hermitage. According to Fontanka, they are seizing materials related to the construction of a new repository of funds. The construction contract is estimated at 3.67 billion rubles. It was concluded with the Moscow company Mekhstroytrans. In September 2016, Fontanka wrote that the company was actually not conducting any construction, although it received an advance payment of a billion rubles.

Photo: Sehotel Jägerwirt The story began with this message: the guests of the Austrian hotel were locked in their rooms, since the hackers blocked the castles. It soon became clear that it was too incredible to be true; Nevertheless, hackers really hacked the hotel. "Medusa" tells what happened - and what does the "king of delusional news" have to do with it.

to the office of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) came On the afternoon of January 31 , bailiffs . They took Alexei Navalny to take him to Kirov for trial in the Kirovles case. At the same time, Navalny was not immediately taken to the airport (the politician even has a ticket to Kirov), but was taken to the Moscow Department of the Bailiff Service. On the way there and in the office itself, the politician told what was happening to him.