The number of victims of the strongest over the past 60 years in the capital of China has increased to 37 people. This was reported in the press service of the city administration. A powerful rain fell on Beijing on Saturday, July 21. Many streets were flooded as a result. The average level of precipitation in the city was 170 mm. The highest water level is recorded in the suburban area of ​​Fanshan - 460 mm, ITAR -TASS reports.

All warehouses with the chemical weapons of Syria are under the control of government forces, Damascus intends to apply it only in case of external aggression, Interfax reports with reference to the representative of the Foreign Ministry of Syria Jihad Mikdisi. The increased interest in Syrian chemical weapons appeared after the head of the chemical weapon program, General Adnan Strength, crossed the side of the rebel.

Moscow "Spartak" and the Argentine Club "Boka Huniors" reached a fundamental agreement regarding the transition to the "red-white" central defender Juan Manuel Insurrald. He will become the second newcomer of the club after Brazilian Romulus from Vasco da Gama. According to the press service of Muscovites , this week the last nuances regarding the transfer of a 27-year-old football player who played two matches for the Argentine national team should be settled.

The flurry of calls fell on Monday morning to the emergency call number of Australian rescue services. Calls to the number 000 continue to arrive, all their authors say that they received SMS with the threat of physical reprisals. The unknown author of this message notifies the addressees that he has an order for their murder, which has already been paid.

Anatoly Bershtein “In my opinion, this is the height of cynicism on the part of NTV. This is just some kind of open outrage against a person who is simple-minded to the point of innocence, to the point of illness. I feel very sorry for this girl, Sveta Kuritsyna. This cannot be done.

Public discontent about the foreign trips of officials for a budget score resulted in protest moods: Permyki collect a rally to discuss similarities and differences between representatives of local authorities and the famous Italian mafia. The reason for the protest rally called "Italian party, or Perm deputies visiting the Sicilian Mafia" was a trip of people's chosen ones to Sicily in early July.

An increased transport tax on powerful cars will be introduced since 2013, Vedomosti reports. The Ministry of Finance published amendments to the Tax Code that increase tax on vehicles of high power. For cars with an engine of 410 horsepower and the rate released after 2001, the rate increases from 15 to 300 rubles. For each force, for motorcycles and motor -rollers from 150 liters. With. - from 5 to 25 rubles.

The company "Transneft" incurred serious losses after the publication on the blog of Alexei Navalny in November 2010 the results of the audit of the construction of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (VSU). According to Izvestia , the document stated a scheme according to which Transneft revealed theft of its subcontractors. Before the publication of these materials, the oil company successfully won the courts and counterparties returned the stolen funds.

As a result of a series of terrorist attacks that occurred on Sunday in Iraq, more than 100 people died, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to local media. Earlier it was reported that 16 people died as a result of attacks. Most of the victims are Iraqi troops and police officers. Terrorist shares were committed in Baghdad and its suburbs, in the northern city of Kirkuk and in the province of Dihyal in the north-east of the country.

The All-Russian football Association, headed by Anzor Kavazashvili, nominated the ex-player of the USSR national team and football observer Yevgeny Lovchev as a candidate for the presidency of the RFU President.

Barrels with dozens of human embryos were found in the Nevyansky district of the Sverdlovsk region. According to the local police, mushroom pickers in the ravine near the Nizhny Tagil -Yekaterinburg highway made a terrible find in the evening of July 22, the URA.RU portal reports. “In four 50 -liter plastic barrels there were about 50 embryos treated with formaldehyde.

The Irish swimmer Parik Casey died, crossing the La Cans, informs Sport-Express with reference to the British television radio corporation of the Air Force. Reportedly, on the night of Saturday to Sunday, 45-year-old Casey swam the La-Channel when he suddenly became ill. “He had about one and a half kilometers to the French coast, he was almost at the finish line,” the family spokesman said.

The deplorable situation with roads in Yekaterinburg has become a topic for the work of unknown artists. They in their own way appreciated the efforts of the city’s leaders to improve the condition of the roadway, decorating it with portraits of officials made in the form of cartoons. Pit, bumps and road irregularities were also part of the sketches, URA.RU reports.

The Ministry of Finance of Russia is developing plans for a sequestra of a military budget in two radical ways. Firstly, in 2013-2015, the staff of the army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs may be reduced. Secondly, the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov said that the direct expenditure of the federal budget for the state arms program (GPV-2020) for this period will most likely be cut compared to the previously drawn up plan by 20%.

The media of St. Petersburg excited the news of the accident at the legendary Aurora - it was reported that either the ship was tilted, or the fountain of water was beating from the deck. Representatives of many publications came to the ship and did not find any panic, and rescuers, the police and employees of the floating museum in turn assured that no accident happened, and the situation was developing in the standard mode.