In the south of the Philippines, at least 25 people died, about 100 more were missing as a result of a landslide gathering. This was reported by representatives of local authorities. The tragedy occurred early in the morning in the mountain district of the province of the compostel Valley, located on the large island of Mindanao, ITAR-TASS reports. Rescue work is underway.

The forensic experts came to the conclusion that the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik is absolutely sane, contrary to the previously issued decision of the medical board, which recognized him mentally unhealthy. This was announced by the Norwegian TV channel TV-2. According to experts, since Breivik does not suffer from mental illness, he should be kept in prison, and not in specialized medical institutions, ITAR-TASS reports.

The main prosecutor on the trial in the Cairo in the case of the execution of demonstrators in the days of the January revolution in Egypt 2011 officially demanded to pass the death sentence to the former President of the country Hosni Mubaraku and other accused in the process, including the sons of Mubarak Gamal and Alya and the ex-head of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs, Khabib al-Adley.

On the Far Eastern Railway in the Khabarovsk Territory , about 40 cargo cars, and not 17, as previously reported, specified on Thursday, a source in law enforcement agencies. The movement of trains on the Taisin -Elban is already restored, the Russian Railways press service said on Thursday. "On the 271 km of the Far Eastern Railway on the Elban -Teisin stations, 36 tail wagons (12 - empty, with auto parts, the rest with crushed stone) occurred," the source told Interfax .

The Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova Evgeny Karpov said that from Thursday the personnel of the peacekeeping Russian-Moldavian-Podnestrovsky post N9 on the Dniester River, where a fatal incident occurred on January 1, is reduced from 15 to 4 military personnel, which will be in the perimeter of the post only for monitoring the situation and will be without weapons. “From now on, the tasks of this point include regulating traffic, but without special barriers.

All 19 members of the crew of the ship-refrigerator "Irina" (port of the postscript-Vladivostok), who received the hole and refusal of the engine during a strong storm in the Kuril Islands, were delivered by the Tatarstan vessel to Yuzhno-Kurilsk.

The new price record was set at the first auction in the wholesale fish market of Tsukidzi in Tokyo - tuna weighing 269 kilograms for 56.49 million yen (about 728.1 thousand US dollars), Kyodo said on Thursday. The holder of the giant fish became the operator of the Sushi restaurant network Kiyomura Co. The price for one kg of the “record holder” amounted to about $ 2.7 thousand dollars. The amount paid by the buyer exceeds last year’s record by almost $ 290 thousand, RIA Novosti reports.

The European Union countries are preparing to introduce economic sanctions against Iran. The EU stated that they had come to an agreement to introduce an embargo on the import of raw oil from Iran if Tehran did not begin to cooperate with the international community on the issue of his nuclear program. Other sanctions are considered. All this happens against the background of the strongest exacerbation of relations between the United States and Iran.

France is pleased with her contract with Russia for the supply of helicopter carriers of the Mistral type and is ready to continue to continue cooperation in the military-technical sphere. In particular, the French side promises this year to issue a contract for the construction of the third and fourth helicopter carrier.

New cyclones in the coming days will lead to a worsening weather in the center of the European part of Russia. At the same time, as before, it will be abnormally warm : the excess of the average daily temperature above the norm will be 7-10 degrees, the thermometer readings will exceed the absolute maximums for January.

Apple Corporation is ready to defend its rights not only to its own brands, but also to the image of its founder - Steve Jobs. The creator of the cult iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac inspired the Chinese company In ICONS to produce its reduced copy - a 30 -centimeter plastic doll. The American company threatens the Chinese with a court claim, insisting that the image of the deceased head of the corporation belongs to her, writes The Telegraph .

The American teenager, who was killed by police in one of the schools in the American state of Texas, had a pneumatic pistol, not firearms, as previously reported. This was stated at a special press conference by the head of the city of Browsville, where the incident, Orlando Rodriguez, occurred. On the morning on Wednesday, January 4, law enforcement officers received a signal from the leadership of a secondary school that an armed teenager was in the educational institution.

Four explosions thundered on Thursday in Baghdad, according to the latest data, 29 people were injured, another 68 were injured, reports Reuters. According to the police, all incidents occurred in the Shiite regions of the Iraqi capital-Sadr City and El-Kazimi. First, a mined motorcycle took off into the air in the air, half an hour extended in the same place, a roadside landmark exploded.

As a result of a serious car accident in Buryatia, five people were killed on the federal highway M-55 Baikal, nine were injured, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the republic said. The tragedy occurred near the village of Troitskoye in the Baikal district at 11:35 Moscow time on Thursday. The frontal clash was made by the Toyota minivan and a passenger foreign car.

The United States will reform the number of armed forces in order to make them more mobile and effective, said the American President Barack Obama, explaining the essence of the new military strategy that its administration has previously passed on Thursday.