In Tasmania, law enforcement officers were able to find “almost all” of about 100 people who, as previously reported, were considered missing after the island, located 240 km from the southeastern coast of Australia, several strong forest fires were held. This was announced by the British television channel Sky News .

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez will remain the head of state, even if, for health reasons, he cannot arrive at his inauguration, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the country's prosecutor’s general. The media last week wrote that the state’s state is extremely difficult, but this information is not officially confirmed. On January 10, the inauguration of the re -elected President of Venezuela was appointed.

In Japan, more than half of the mayors of "nuclear" cities located within a radius of 30 km from the nuclear power plant are ready to consent to the resumption of nuclear power plants in their regions. This is evidenced by the published data of the national newspaper "Jomiuri". The publication conducted a survey among mayors of 135 cities located near enterprises such as Tomari NPP in the Northern Japanese Island of Hokkaido and Gannya NPP in the south of the country.

The US administration considers the plan nominated by President Bashar Assad a plan to resolve the conflict in the country "a new attempt by the regime to maintain power." This was stated by the official representative of the American State Department Victoria Nuland. Earlier on Sunday, January 6, Bashar al -Assad during the first seven months of public speech in Damascus put forward a plan for resolving the Syrian crisis by holding new elections in the country.

In the Russian capital, with the onset of Christmas, new rules regarding the holding of rallies were introduced. The city hall allocated two sites for these purposes in the capital's parks at once, RIA Novosti reports. "The law was adopted by the Moscow City Duma on December 26 and published the next day. He will enter into force on January seventh," a source in the Moscow parliament said.

The day before, it was officially announced the conclusion of a preliminary agreement between the NHL leadership and the Trade Union of players about the new ten -year collective agreement. League Commissioner Gary Battman guaranteed the renewal of the competition interrupted by a local on January 19. The NHL stars who are in Russia, connected by contracts with their clubs, are urgently serving the ocean, where training camps will be opened on Wednesday or Thursday.

A teenager who stated him hit the janitor with a fracture of the jaw, told Interfax in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the capital. The suspect in the injury was detained - he turned out to be a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan, born in 1977. According to the source, a 12-year-old boy was taken to a medical institution in the south-west of the capital the night before.

In the Baksansky district of Kabardino-Balkaria, the security forces destroyed three unknown people who had armed resistance to the demand to present documents. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to law enforcement agencies of the republic. The liquidated militants planned a series of terrorist attacks in temples in the republic, as well as in the Stavropol Territory for Christmas. This information was confirmed by the operational headquarters in the KBR and NAK, Interfax reports.

The Ministry of Justice of Greece proposed to introduce life imprisonment for criminals using Kalashnikov machine guns or other heavy weapons for robbery or other crimes. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, the site of the newspaper Ethnos said on Monday. In recent months, in Greece, the gangs and individual criminals are increasingly using machines for raids on banks, gas stations and shops.

The Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky and two other citizens of the Russian Federation - Alexander Karachinsky and Konstantin Bagliy - remain in the prison of the resort city of Sihanukvil in Cambodia. They are accused of attacking the military.

The ex-prime minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi said that in the event of a victory in the upcoming parliamentary elections in February, he does not intend to head the government again, and only the post of Minister of Economics will take in it. This, as RIA Novosti reports, the scandalous politician announced on Monday the live air of the Italian radio station RTL 102.5. During the transfer, the billionaire called himself a "star" and emphasized that he was very popular among the population.

Thousands of people went on Monday to the mass protest in the capital of Spain Madrid in order to express disagreement with the plans of the authorities to restructure the healthcare system and privatization of a number of medical centers and public hospitals.

The apartment thieves cleaned the apartments of two unemployed in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don. Large theft was committed in a dwelling of a non -working Rostov woman totaling about 3.5 million rubles, Interfax was told in law enforcement agencies. Unknown during the New Year holidays robbed the apartment of the unemployed Muscovite 1.2 million rubles, RIA Novosti was told on Monday in the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

ru-marazm “On January 6, in St. Petersburg, police officers stopped another daring action. Several hundred teenagers, having organized themselves on the social network Vkontakte, went to the Field of Mars to throw snowballs at each other.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday returns to the performance of his duties after illness. According to the schedule of the US State Department, she will meet her deputies, the Russian BBC service reports. As part of the Schedule of the State Department for a week on Tuesday, Hillary will meet in the White House with the US Minister of Defense Leon Panetta, as well as with the presidential advice on national security Thomas Donilon, CNN said.