The South Florida Sun Sentinel won the Pulitzer Prize in the most prestigious category of public service. They received the award for “exposing school and law enforcement failures” before and after the shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida. The National Reporting category honored The Wall Street Journal for reporting that US President Donald Trump paid two women to keep quiet about their affairs with him.

Russia’s legendary Sound Recording State House, the Kremlin and NATO are finally donezo, and Moscow sends 30ish soldiers to Africa Monday, April 15, 2019 This day in history: 125 years ago, on April 15, 1894, Nikita Khrushchev was born in the village of Kalinovka. He would go on to lead the USSR after the death of Joseph Stalin, instituting “de-Stalinization,” backing the early Soviet space program, and introducing limited domestic reforms. Khrushchev died in 1971 at the age of 77.

Italian bank UniCredit will pay $1.3 billion in fines as part of an agreement with the US authorities in the case of violating anti-sanctions laws. The credit institution pleaded guilty to making billions of illegal transactions with Iran, Cuba, Myanmar, Libya, Sudan and Syria between 2002 and 2011. The United States regularly fines large banks for conducting transactions in violation of sanctions laws; typically fines range from a few hundred million to several billion dollars.

Yoan Valat / EPA / Scanpix / Leta in Paris in the streets pray for the salvation of the burning Cathedral of Notre Dame. The archbishop of Paris allowed all the temples to call bells to call on believers. The French authorities do not exclude that it will not be possible to stop the fire and save the cathedral.

Notre Dame Cathedral may not be salvageable, French Interior Ministry spokesman said. The city fire department, in turn, reported that the next hour and a half during extinguishing would be decisive. 400 people are now engaged in extinguishing the fire. To fight the fire, "all possibilities" are used, except for helicopters. As explained in the fire department, the release of water from them can contribute to the collapse of the building.

In Paris, on the evening of April 15, a fire began in the Notre Dame Cathedral. A spire and the roof hit the building, there was a threat of its complete destruction; Only four hours after the start of the fire, the authorities reported that the fire intensity has decreased and that the frame of the building would be able to save. 400 firefighters participated in the extinguishing of the fire, at least one of them was seriously injured.

Footage of Notre Dame Cathedral burning in Paris has been dismissed by YouTube as a fake video linked to the 9/11 attacks, according to BuzzFeed. Some of the live media broadcasts around the world from the scene were accompanied by a YouTube widget containing a summary of the September 11 attacks in the United States and a link to the corresponding article in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Philippe Lopez / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Fire in the Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God continues for several hours. At first, the spire collapsed at the building, and then the roof. The authorities began the evacuation of the inhabitants of the island of Sita in the center of Paris, on which the cathedral is located, and the guests of the hotels there.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that firefighters who extinguished Notre Dame Cathedral managed to avoid the worst scenario - the collapse of the temple walls. “The worst has been avoided, although the battle is not yet won,” The Guardian quotes Macron as saying. The French president promised to rebuild Notre Dame. According to Le Monde, Macron said that a nationwide fundraiser would be opened for the restoration of the temple. Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire on the evening of April 15.

Paris City Hall decided to evacuate the inhabitants of the island of Cité in the city center, where the burning Notre Dame Cathedral is located. Residents of the island will be placed in temporary detention facilities in nearby areas. The tourist department of the city is also looking for accommodation options for tourists staying in hotels on the Cité. Navigation along the Seine in the vicinity of the island has been discontinued. Just over a thousand people live on the island of Cité.

Fire in the Cathedral of the Parisian Mother of God In Paris, on the evening of April 15, one of the most famous buildings in the world caught fire - the Cathedral of the Parisian Mother of God. The building is completely embraced by fire, the spire of the cathedral was destroyed, the roof collapsed. The exact causes of the fire have yet to be established, but it is known that repair work was underway in the cathedral.

Verkhovna Rada deputy Nadezhda Savchenko, accused in a terrorism case, has been released from arrest. The Brovary City Court in the Kyiv region made this decision due to the expiration of her arrest. Together with Savchenko, another defendant in the case, Vladimir Ruban, was released. Savchenko and Ruban have been under arrest since March 2018. According to the prosecutor's office, they were planning a terrorist attack in parliament and an assassination attempt on President Petro Poroshenko.

Philippe Wojazer / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On the evening of April 15, the Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God caught fire in Paris - the main cathedral of France and one of the most famous Gothic temples in Europe. The roof of the structure collapsed, but the walls were preserved. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Higher School of Economics, Oleg Voskobobinikov, told Medusa, what significance nototre dame has for the culture and history of European civilization.

Roof collapsed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Reuters reports. The building's spire collapsed earlier. The fire in the cathedral - one of the most famous buildings in the world - began on the evening of April 15. The cause of the fire is still unknown, it is only reported that repairs were carried out in the cathedral.

Fire in Notre Dame. Short The fire began at about eight in the evening in Moscow. An hour later, a roof and a spire collapsed. The cause of the fire is construction work. Notre Dame was burning for more than five hours, firefighters doubted that the fire would be able to stop. As a result, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that the main designs of the cathedral were preserved. From the treasury of Notre Dama, the crown of Jesus Christ was saved.