Five people died in a collision between a car and a truck in the Tyumen region. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the regional department of traffic police. The accident occurred at the 104th kilometer of the Kurgan-Tyumen highway. The truck driver drove into the oncoming lane and collided with a Lada car. According to preliminary data, the truck's brakes failed. As a result of the accident, the driver and four passengers of the Lada died.

Several rockets exploded in the "green zone" of Baghdad, where foreign embassies are located. This was reported by Reuters with reference to an unnamed representative of the Iraqi army. As noted by CNN, the "green zone" is infrequently under fire. According to the Al Arabiya TV channel, two rockets fell there, one of them in the square near the US embassy in Iraq. No casualties have been reported.

The Russian national team beat the Swedish team 5:4 in the semi-finals of the youth ice hockey world championship. It is reported by Sports.ru. Ivan Morozov scored the decisive goal in overtime. Russia reached the final of the World Youth Hockey Championship for the first time since 2016. The opponent of the Russians will be determined by the results of the semifinal match between Canada and Finland. The final will take place on January 5th.

On January 3, the website of the US draft service (Selective Service System) went down, on which all Americans who are subject to conscription in the event of a mobilization are required to register. This was announced on Twitter by the department itself. The recruiting service attributed the problems to too many visitors to the site due to the "spread of disinformation." It was not specified what kind of disinformation was in question.

A1, an investment division of Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group, bought out the debt of Viktor Baturin, former vice president of Inteko. This was reported to RBC by a representative of A1. The amount of debt is 3.2 billion rubles. A1 received the right to demand it from the bankrupt Cypriot company Sarrio Investments Ltd, Baturin's largest creditor. The deal was closed in December 2018.

Updated . Belneftekhim announced that oil supplies to Belarusian refineries have resumed. The concern also plans to resume exports of petroleum products by the end of January. The Belarusian state concern Belneftekhim announced that it had completed the paperwork for the first batch of Russian oil purchased at a price without the supplier’s premium . Transneft told RIA Novosti that it had received an application to pump 133,000 tons of oil to Belarus.

In Omsk, a rally was held in memory of the local resident of Dmitry Fedorov, who was found dead a week after the application for thrown drugs. It is reported by Siberia. Realities. NGS Omsk in Omsk was a rally in memory of Dmitry Fedorov | Ngs55.ru According to various sources , from 50 to 80 people participated in the rally. Among them were friends and acquaintances of the deceased, local deputies and activists.

US President Donald Trump ordered the planning of an attack on Iranian General Qassem Soleimani after the Dec. 27 attack on a US military base in Iraq that killed several Americans. This was reported by Bloomberg sources. According to them, Trump planned the assassination of Soleimani with a narrow circle of his senior national security advisers, who at that time were on Christmas holidays in different regions of the United States. They communicated over secure communication lines.

With the beginning of the new decade, the results of those who have passed in politics, economics, technologies and culture are usually summed up. But we decided to find out how the 2010s you personally conducted. At the end of December, Medusa asked readers to tell what has happened to the good and important with them over the past ten years. We have received many excellent stories and publish the best of them with insignificant editing editors.

Sabah Arar / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Mourning procession in the Shiite district of Baghdad on January 4. Its participants say goodbye to one of the leaders of the Right Shiite groups in Iraq Ali Mahdi al-Muhandis and General Cashmo Suleimani, who was engaged in the organization of Iran’s military operations abroad (after the farewell ceremony, his body will be sent to his homeland, where they will be buried on January 7).

The comedy Kholop, directed by Klim Shipenko, grossed over a billion rubles at the box office. This is evidenced by the data of the Unified Federal Automated Information System (UAIS) on the website of the Cinema Fund. "Kholop" was released on December 26. On the first weekend, the picture's fees amounted to 303 million rubles, in the second - 511 million. The total fees as of January 4 are 1.03 billion rubles.

Online shooter Fortnite became the most profitable video game of 2019. It brought its developers, Epic Games, $1.8 billion, according to the analytics company SuperData Research. Second place in terms of profit was shared by Dungeon Fighter Online and Honour of Kings. Each of them earned $1.6 billion. Third place was taken by League of Legends, which brought its creators $1.5 billion. All of the games listed above are free-to-play .

Over the past ten years, the world has become different. Many events that came in the 2010s were impossible to predict-from the war in Syria, which was considered one of the most stable countries of the Middle East, to the election of an eccentric showman with nationalist views and a business approach to politics. The most important thing is that the moods in society have seriously changed - at least in the western one.

The Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), the manufacturer of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, filed a lawsuit against IrAero for 941 million rubles. Information about this is placed in the card index of the Moscow Arbitration Court, was the first to pay attention to it. the Prime agency The lawsuit was filed on December 30, it has not yet been accepted for proceedings. Details of the claims were not disclosed.

Donald Trump has named Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Baghdad by a US missile attack, the number one terrorist in the world. Trump's statement was published on the White House twitter. According to the US President, Soleimani, who was the commander of the special forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Al-Quds, organized terrorist attacks on American citizens - both military personnel and civilians.