The US authorities will no longer consider that the construction of settlements by Israel in the West Bank is a violation of international law, said the head of the State Department, Mike Pompeo. According to Pompeo, Washington thus recognizes the “real situation” that has developed in the West Bank. Since 1978, the official position of the United States has been that the construction of settlements in the West Bank is not legal.

Major General Sergei Dubinsky, who is accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale and is under arrest at Matrosskaya Tishina, asked the court to change his preventive measure to house arrest because he developed cancer. Dubinsky, who was arrested in November 2018, said that when he entered the pre-trial detention center, he had the initial stage of cancer, for which he was successfully treated.

OlegDoroshin / Shutterstock.com On the technology-oriented social site Habr, an individual writing under the username keklick1337 has claimed that he was able to hack into the public Wi-Fi network provided on a popular high-speed Russian rail route, gaining access to a database of passenger data. The user boarded a Sapsan train from St. Petersburg to Moscow and subsequently decided to try hacking its wireless network out of boredom, he wrote.

In Duncan, Oklahoma, a shooting occurred in the parking lot of a Walmart supermarket. Three people died as a result of the incident. As explained by the police, an unknown perpetrator opened fire on people who were in the parking lot. He mortally wounded two people - one of them managed to get his gun and kill the attacker with return fire. The motives of the offender's actions are still unclear. The incident was the second mass murder in the United States in the last 24 hours.

Major General Nikolai Savchenko, the head of the police on the Moscow metro, has been dismissed, TASS reports, citing a law enforcement source. According to the agency, Savchenko's dismissal is connected with a recent incident at the Ryazansky Prospekt station, when a policeman opened fire on colleagues from the department of his own security.

A brawl broke out November 18 on the roof of Empire, formerly the Imperia Tower, in the Moscow skyscraper cluster Moskva-City. A source within the Russian capital’s law enforcement apparatus told TASS that 20 free climbers and a group of security guards were involved in the fight. Moscow police confirmed that the conflict had taken place and said several individuals were arrested. The incident is under investigation.

Updated . Roskomnadzor does not intend to change its position and will continue to fine the media for hyperlinks to pages with obscenities, said press secretary of the agency Vadim Ampelonsky. The editors-in-chief of major Russian online publications appealed to Roskomnadzor with a demand to explain the fines for hyperlinks leading to external pages with obscene language.

Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The Russian branch of the environmental activism group Greenpeace took to the water on Monday to protest the capture and imprisonment of dolphins and whales. In the protest action, activists kayaked on either side of an inflatable killer whale past the walls of Moscow’s Kremlin.

The New York Times: the head of China Xi Jinping demanded total control over the Uyghurs and referred to the experience of the Baltic states in the USSR Greg Baker / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Observation post in one of the alleged "re -education centers" in Xinjiang. Khotan, May 31, 2019 The New York Times published 403 pages of secret documents shedding light on how China's leadership formed its current policy regarding Uyghurs.

As the new Yandex structure will be able to protect the company from the intervention of the authorities Alexey Druzhinin / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin in the Yandex office. September 21, 2017 The Board of Directors of the Dutch Yandex NV, managing Yandex, approved the decision to change the structure of corporate governance.

On November 18, Yandex announced a new structure of management of the company - key decisions will be under the control of the Fund located in the Kaliningrad Offshore. Immediately after this, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected any assumption that Yandex had to coordinate innovations with the Kremlin.

Valery Maximenko, the deputy head of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), has reportedly submitted a resignation letter. The outlets Daily Storm and RBC both learned of the resignation from anonymous sources and said it was related to the arrival of a new director, Alexander Kalashnikov, at FSIN. A source for Daily Storm also asserted that Maximenko resigned in part because he implicitly critiqued a new FSIN policy that forbids employees from speaking on behalf of the agency.

Now this will happen - the film will be released in 2021 at HBO Max Clay Enos / Warner Bros / Everett Collection / Vida Press Ben Affle, Gal Gadot and Zach Snyder on the set of the Justice League in 2017 Update. The “Justice League” in the directorial version of Zach Snyder will still be released -this will happen in 2021 on the HBO Max platform. The studio allocated another 20 to 30 million dollars for new special effects, music and dialogs.

Vladimir Medinsky boasted of a new park - only something strange is going on with the tiles The head of the Ministry of Culture, Vladimir Medinsky, announced on his social networks the opening of a new park in the courtyard of the Quartermaster warehouses in St. Petersburg. The minister noted the modern layout, lighting, and also praised the well-groomed trees and lawns.

Brian Melley / Ap / Scanpix / Leta In early November, a resident of Los Angeles Ruben Martinez, who was sentenced to 47 years in prison on charges of a series of robberies, was released from prison. He spent 12 years in prison before he and his wife Mary managed to prove his innocence, writes The Guardian. The 49-year-old Martinez was arrested in 2007-five months after the wedding.