The Pentagon will send an additional 5,200 troops to guard the US-Mexico border as a large group of migrants from Central America approaches the border. As stated in an official statement from the Pentagon, along with the military, border patrols will be reinforced by helicopters and drones. A few days ago, it became known that a group of about 7,000 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala was heading through Mexico to the US border.

Real Madrid have officially terminated the contract with head coach Julen Lopetegui. In an official press release, the club thanked Lopetegui for his work and wished him well in his future career. Santiago Solari, who until recently coached the Real Madrid reserve team, has been appointed acting head coach. After 10 rounds in the championship of Spain, Real Madrid is in 9th place with 14 points.

The former head of the Russian Pastafarian Church, Mikhail Samin, reported that an administrative case has been opened against him under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (organization of an unauthorized public event). According to Samin, the reason for this was his post on VKontakte, where he called for supporters of Alexei Navalny to attend a rally against pension reform on September 9.

Muscovites remember Great Terror victims' names, Novaya Gazeta gets more threatening ‘gifts,’ and a Moscow regional mayor resigns under suspicious circumstances Monday, October 29, 2018 This day in history. On October 29, 1976, the USSR commissioned the first part of its missile early-warning system for combat duty, with radars in Olenegorsk, Skrunda, Balkhash, and Mishelevka. The second part went operational in January 1979.

Rapper Theodore Jones, known by his stage name Young Greatness, has been shot dead in New Orleans, Billboard reports, citing police. 34-year-old Jones was killed near one of the restaurants in the city, his car was stolen from the scene of the murder, which was later found . The suspects have not yet been found, the motives for their actions are also unclear. The most famous track recorded by Young Greatness was the single " Moolah ", released in 2015 and certified gold in the US.

The Federal Air Transport Agency has banned the international flights of the Yakutia airline due to violations identified in its activities. As the representative of the department explained to Interfax, the restrictions will be in effect from November 5 until the violations are eliminated. He also recalled that the problems with maintaining the airworthiness of the aircraft became the reasons for the long and numerous delays of Yakutia flights, in September they reached almost 20%.

At the end of October, a photograph of a person who looked like Justin Bieber dispersed through social networks. In the picture, the double of the musician, in a hat and sunglasses, sits on a bench and eats burrito alone. He does it in an extremely strange way, eating out the middle. Many publications, bloggers and users believed in the authenticity of the picture and began to make fun of the performer. "Bieber what ... does not know ...

Istanbul hosted the opening ceremony of a new airport, which is planned to become the world's largest in terms of passenger traffic in the coming years. According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the initial stage, the airport will be able to receive 90 million passengers a year, and by 2023, after all stages of construction are completed, this number will increase to 200 million. The first commercial flight from the new airport will take place on 31 October.

There is a community called Fridge Detective on Reddit. Some users post photos of their refrigerators, while others try to guess the age, social status, place of residence, and even the profession of the authors of the photos. Many guesses turn out to be wrong, but some users have become real detectives.

Gab.com is considered the "social network of the American far-right." The service was founded in August 2016 as an alternative to Twitter. Users can write messages ("gabs") up to 300 characters long; in just a year and a half of its existence, the service, according to the founders, has attracted 465 thousand active users. At the same time, Gab.com does not have any rules regulating acceptable statements - instead, users are asked to mark posts that they find offensive.

Representatives of oil companies propose to raise gasoline prices from the new year - by 4-5 rubles per liter (almost 10% of the average price in September). This, RBC reports citing sources, was announced at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.

Actress Carey Malligan - About working with Paul Dano, Honest Honorary in the Cinema and Pester's Syndrome Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP / Scanpix / Leta In October, “Wild Life” was released in Russian rental, the director's debut of the actor Paul was given. The film unfolds in the United States of the 1960s, the main characters are a married couple on the verge of a divorce and their 16-year-old son, who is trying to save the relationship of parents.

Former Russian Central Elections Commissioner Nikolai Ryabov said at a conference on October 25 that “extremely trying times” await the country, as Western nations try to meddle in Russian politics. The West’s strategic goal, Ryabov said, is the total dissolution of the Russian Federation, while the tactical objective in the U.S. and Western Europe remains the ouster of President Vladimir Putin.

The Moscow authorities approved the holding of the nationalist event "Russian March" in the Moscow district of Lyublino on 4 November. This was reported to Interfax by one of the organizers of the action Dmitry Karasev. Karasev expects to receive an official document confirming the agreement on Tuesday, October 30th.

PAU Barrena / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On October 28, IBM Corporation announced the purchase of Red Hat - an open code software developer based on the Linux operating system. IBM will pay 34 billion dollars for Red Hat, having bought all the shares of the company at a price of 190 dollars apiece (although their market value before closing the exchange trading last week was $ 117). The transaction will be closed in mid -2019. Red Hat will become a separate unit in IBM. Red Hat was created in 1993.