Sebastian Kurz has announced his resignation as Austrian Federal Chancellor, Reuters reports. Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will act as acting head of government, Kurz announced. Kurz will retain his post as leader of the Austrian People's Party and will head the party's faction in parliament, receiving a parliamentary mandate. Kurz resigned amid allegations of corruption.

At the Bolshoi Theatre on Saturday evening during the opera "Sadko" a supernumerary actor died - he was crushed by the scenery. The performance was interrupted, the audience was asked to leave the hall. TASS and RIA Novosti , citing sources, report that a set fell on the actor. An Interfax source, in turn, said that the actor, for some reason, hesitated during the set change and did not notice a new set descending from above.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has withdrawn the accreditation of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory. This decision, according to the agency's website, was made on the recommendation of the disciplinary committee "due to non-compliance with the International Standard for Laboratories (ISL) and its Code of Ethics." The Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory has been notified of the withdrawal of accreditation and may file a complaint in the prescribed manner, the report said.

Turkish law enforcement authorities have detained six foreign nationals on suspicion of espionage, local media, including Haberturk, reported. Detentions took place in Istanbul and Antalya. According to media reports, foreigners are suspected of trying to gain access to information important for national security, military and political espionage. Weapons and passports, including Russian ones, were confiscated from the detainees.

The Center "E" employees came to the conclusion that the accused in the case of the Telegram channel "Chto delat!", HSE student and former employee of Anastasia Bryukhanova's election headquarters, Maria Platonova, corresponded under the nickname "Vovan Zabivnoy". This is stated in the report of an employee of the Center for Combating Extremism, which was reviewed by Mediazona and Doxa . The report cites several publications made by "Vovan Zabivny". Here is one of them: "Audacity is fire.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In Russia, they steal a lot. How has corruption changed at Putin? And how to get rid of her now? On October 3, the International Consortium of Divine-Servist Journalists published new information about the offshores of politicians and celebrities. The Pandora Archive includes 12 million documents. They were studied by more than 600 journalists from 117 countries. At the disposal of journalists were data from 14 offshore registrars.

Miguel Calero / EPA / Scanpix / Leta at the erupting volcano of the Kumble-Vieha, located on one of the Canary Islands, on October 9, the wall of the crater collapsed. Lava flows poured along the northern slope of the mountain, causing new destruction, reports Reuters. The volcano on the island of Palma has been erupting for three weeks . Several thousand residents of the island were forced to leave their homes, more than 1000 buildings were destroyed. The eruption is accompanied by earthquakes.

The head of the "Center for Media Protection" ("Ino -Agent") Galina Arapov was also declared "ino -agent". "Medusa" asked how it will affect her work and life Vladimir Averin for vowel Galina Arapova On the evening of Friday, October 8, the Russian Ministry of Justice replenished his register “Media - Foreign Agents”, including three organizations and nine people in it. Basically, journalists who collaborated with the Project publication declared an “unwanted organization”.

In Lebanon, the centralized supply of electricity has been stopped. On Saturday at noon local time due to lack of fuel, the last of the country's two large power plants stopped working, Reuters reported. A government source told the agency that power generation at the power stations would not resume until Monday, and possibly even later. The authorities plan to use fuel from military reserves for power plants, however, the source said when they will receive it is still unknown.

Have you ever heard of the GoldenDuds? This is an amazingly shaggy (and most often good -natured) cross of a poodle and a golden retriever. Now get ready! Now you will see what happens if you take dogs with so many wool on high -haired day. But first, get acquainted: this is Mia and Milo. They live in Switzerland, in the canton of Zurich, and often walk with the owners in nature. The routes are certainly picturesque. But sometimes this happens to them (click on the video below).

A criminal case has been opened on the fact of beating a soldier in one of the units in the Khabarovsk Territory, the military prosecutor of the Eastern Military District, Sergei Zaryaev, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Baza on Friday posted a video on its Telegram channel in which a man in military uniform inhales a white powder, and after that he and a second person appearing in the frame start beating a scantily clad man, demanding money and a phone from him.

In Ramenskoye, a Moscow region court sentenced six local police officers who were accused of fabricating drug-related criminal cases. Dozhd has been reporting on this criminal case in detail for two years. The employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Ramenskoye" were charged under Articles 286 (abuse of power) and 303 (falsification of evidence and results of operational-investigative activities) of the Criminal Code.

Rockstar officially announced the output of the updated versions of the classic parts Grand Theft Auto: GTA 3, GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas. They will be included in the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definition Edition. Rockstar Games A reprint of games with improved graphics and gameplay will be released until the end of 2021 on a PC, consoles PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. In 2022, The Definitive Edition will also appear on iOS and Android mobile platforms.

The Navalny app is now available again to Russian Google Play users. Access to videos and documents in Google Docs, which were blocked during the Russian elections, has also been restored, Navalny's associate Ivan Zhdanov told Mediazona . Google removed the Navalny app, which included Smart Voting lists, from the Russian store on September 17, the first day of the election.

In almost every family living in Armenian border villages, someone died. Photographer Lilit Danielyan tells how two Karabakh wars survived there “Along the closed borders” is a photographer’s project Lilit Danielyan, prepared in 2021. Danielyan was born in Armenia in 1992 and found both Karabakh conflicts.