All American diplomats have left Venezuela, Reuters reports, citing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the United States on January 23, after the leader of the opposition parliament, Juan Guaido, declared himself interim head of the country. The US supported him. Maduro accused Washington of seeking to achieve a change of power in Venezuela.

A Google employee from Japan, Emma Haruka Iwao, set a new record by calculating the value of pi to 31.4 trillion decimal places. This was reported on the Google Cloud blog. Iwao used the y-cruncher algorithm, which has been used to set several recent records involving digits of pi, and a virtual Google Compute Engine cluster. According to The Verge, the calculations required 25 virtual machines that ran for 121 days.

The Israel Defense Forces reported that two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at the Gush Dan agglomeration. The rockets fell in a desert area. No damage or casualties were reported as a result of the attack. Tel Aviv authorities announced the opening of bomb shelters, Ynet writes . According to the Jerusalem Post, the rocket attack triggered air raid sirens in the city for the first time since 2014. Haaretz writes that the last time they were heard was in 2017, but it was a false alarm.

The Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-12 manned spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The ship was successfully launched into the target orbit, according to Roskosmos. On board the Soyuz MS-12 are Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin, as well as NASA astronauts Nick Haig and Christina Cook. The crew will reach the International Space Station within six hours.

It’s been more than a year since the U.S. Justice Department indicted 13 “Russian trolls” for interfering in America’s 2016 presidential election. Despite this publicity and the passage of time, the entrepreneurs, translators, analysts, and office managers whom Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation linked to the “Internet Research Agency” (IRA) have remained largely out of reach to journalists in Russia.

The US Senate passed a resolution lifting the state of emergency on the US-Mexico border imposed by President Donald Trump. 59 senators voted in favor of lifting the state of emergency, while 41 voted against, according to the Associated Press. The House of Representatives approved this resolution at the end of February. The document will now go to Trump for signature. He has already promised that for the first time he will use his veto power and block the resolution.

The House of Commons of the British Parliament approved the postponement of Brexit from March 29 to a later date. 412 deputies voted for it, 202 against. Now British Prime Minister Theresa May will ask the European Union to delay Brexit. If parliament approves May's proposed Brexit agreement by March 20, the prime minister will ask Brussels to delay Brexit until June 30. If the treaty is not accepted, the delay may be longer.

Trailer in Russian Marvel Russia Trailer in English Marvel Entertainment Attention! The material contains spoilers for the films of the Marvel cinema, including the “Infinity War” and “Captain Marvel”. If you do not want to know anything superfluous, it is better to see the strange television of Russia 1 about Internet memes. What kind of red-gray shots? The trailer included many fragments from the past films of the Marvel cinematic union: “Iron Man”, “Thor”, “First Avenger”, “Infinity War”.

The House of Commons of the British Parliament did not approve a second referendum on the issue of the UK leaving the EU. 85 deputies voted in favor of the amendment, which proposed such an option, and 334 voted against. Also on March 14, Parliament will have to vote on the postponement of Brexit from March 29 to a later date. On the eve of the deputies opposed the exit from the EU without an agreement with Brussels.

Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). Businessmen did not ask him about the case against the founder of the investment fund Baring Vostok, Michael Calvey, writes the BBC Russian Service. Putin spoke at the plenary session of the congress, after which he looked through the notes from the hall, but did not respond to them on the spot.

In Yekaterinburg, at nine radio stations, an advertisement for a mass prayer was launched, which is planning to hold in the city of the Yekaterinburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. This was reported by the headquarters of Navalny in Yekaterinburg and the telegram channel "Row Ekaterinburg" , which is conducted by local activist Dmitry Moskvin.

Matthew Bennett / Unsplash Quote "Doctors called Russians one of the fastest nations of the world" "Russians were recognized as a rapidly aging nation" “Russians are not reached by healthy ones: the study of the“ aging rate ”confirmed the worst fears of experts” So the Russian media write about a study published in early March in The Lancet magazine.

Shutterstock.com Several major Russian Internet companies, including Yandex and the news outlet RBC , suffered massive network attacks this week that were made possible by vulnerabilities in the system the federal government uses to block websites.

Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Paul Manafort before arrest in Washington, June 15, 2018 Paul Manafort, one of the closest advisers to Donald Trump in the period before the election of the US President, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. Such a period was appointed to him on a whole series of charges. The Federal Court of County of Colombia found Manafort guilty of conspiracy against the United States and in conspiracy in order to influence witnesses in his case.

According to Reuters, Rosneft has invested $9 billion in projects in Venezuela since 2010. Reuters evaluated the Russian company's investments in Venezuelan projects based on Rosneft's financial statements, internal documents, and public statements by its management between 2012 and 2015. The documents, the agency notes, show that the return on investment was less than Rosneft had forecast, and there was a $700 million hole in the balance sheet of the joint venture with state oil company PDVSA.