The company that owns the MGM Resorts hotels has agreed to settle claims from the families of those killed and injured in the Las Vegas shooting . This was reported on the MGM Resorts website. The company will pay a settlement of between $735 million and $800 million, depending on how many plaintiffs are included in the deal. Most of the money will be paid by MGM Resorts' insurers.

The adoption of the "Steinmeier formula" does not mean that Ukraine "recognizes the annexation of Crimea and renounces Donbass." This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a video address posted on social media by the Office of the President of Ukraine. The death of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. The death of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.

Instagram has introduced a standalone messaging app, Threads. In Threads, Instagram users can only communicate with subscribers from the "close friends" list and send them stories in two clicks. The app also allows you to create group chats and statuses. It is noted that after installing Threads, messages from “close friends” will continue to be displayed in the Direct tab on Instagram. The new messenger officially launches worldwide on October 3. Threads testing was announced in August 2019.

Vladislav Krasilnikov / TASS / Scanpix / LETA On October 3, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order allowing the head of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service to retire. Shortly beforehand, a report titled “Crimes and Punishments: What to Do about Russia’s Prisons” was published to detail the current state of the country’s penitentiary system. The report’s author, Olga Shepeleva, is a project leader at the Center for Advanced Governance, a newly formed Russian government think tank.

The speech of the head of the Russian delegation to PACE, Petr Tolstoy, was interrupted by the cries of an unknown activist about the “terrorist Russian state,” RBC reports. The shouter was removed from the meeting hall on the orders of PACE speaker Liliane Maury Pasquier. After that, Tolstoy continued his speech. The activists who staged the action during Tolstoy's speech were on the balcony of the PACE plenary session hall. They were holding the flags of Ukraine, Georgia and Poland.

Moscow is helping Beijing build a missile attack warning system, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. He noted that now only Russia and the United States have such systems. “This is a very serious thing that will fundamentally, radically increase the defense capability of the PRC,” Putin said. In August, the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty concluded between the United States and the USSR ceased to operate. The initiator of its termination was US President Donald Trump.

Almog / Wikimedia Commons City Midal-Ha-Emek, Israel The entrepreneur and a chemist from Russia Pavel Kudryavtsev, who supposedly supplied with key raw materials for the production of amphetamine all of Europe, became the director of the innovation company and the editor of the scientific journal in Israel.

The data leak of 200 Sberbank customers was probably due to the actions of one of the employees. This version was expressed by a representative of the bank at a meeting with journalists, RBC reports. It is assumed that one of the employees stole the hard drive from the computer that stored customer data, or took a picture of the screen of this computer. “Such information could only be obtained by a Sberbank employee with special administrative rights.

The average size of the state academic scholarship in Russia in 2020 will increase by 3%, or 90 rubles. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Ministry of Education and Science. According to the agency, the average amount of an academic scholarship in September 2019 amounted to 2,980 rubles (a year earlier - 2,904 rubles). Thus, next year the average scholarship will increase to 3070 rubles. The increase is spelled out in the draft budget for the next three years.

US President Donald Trump has publicly stated that China "should launch an investigation" into former US Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Trump believes Ukraine should conduct the same investigation. Trump and his allies have previously claimed that an investment company in which Hunter Biden held a stake received $1.5 billion from China. Hunter Biden's lawyers have countered that their client had no stake in the company during his father's tenure as vice president.

Warner Bros. Published by the trailer for the drama of Clint Eastwood "Richard Juell." Warner Bros. Pictures Richard Jewell - Official Trailer [HD] The film tells the real story of American Richard Juella, who worked as a guard at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Juell found a backpack with a bomb in the Olympic Park and brought out most people from there. First, the journalists called the guard a hero, but then the investigation suspected him to lay a bomb, and he was in the media.

President Vladimir Putin signed an order to move the State Duma for the duration of the repair - to the House of Unions (Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 1), located in the neighborhood of the Duma building on Okhotny. The State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced the move back in 2018 after complaints about the flowing roof, and Vedomosti found that funds for renting the House of Unions are registered in the new budget.

The fifth episode of Kholivara was published on the Current Channel - the series of journalist Andrei Loshak about the history of the Russian Internet. The series is dedicated to the history of the Living Journal - the American platform, which in Russia has become the main place for political discussions. Present.

Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Gennady Kornienko. Shortly before this, the All -Russian Civil Forum and the Committee of Civil Initiatives presented the report “Crimes and punishments: what to do with Russian prisons”, dedicated to the current state of the Russian penitentiary system. Medusa briefly retells this document.

The Iraqi authorities have cut off the Internet in 75% of the country, including in Baghdad. This was reported by the non-governmental organization NetBlocks, which monitors Internet blocking in different countries. Earlier, NetBlocks said that Iraq blocked access to social networks and instant messengers, in particular to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp. The internet shutdown in Iraq is linked to protests against unemployment and corruption.