At least 24 Pakistani military were killed on Saturday as a result of the coating of a bus in a mountainous district in the north of the country, representatives of the local police told reporters. Five more people were injured, Interfax reports. The driver lost control, because of which the bus collapsed into the gorge. The wounded by helicopter were delivered to the Pakistani city of Ravalpindi.

At the Khankala airfield, a Mi-8 helicopter of one of the power structures crashed in Chechnya during the landing, an interfax told an emergency source by telephone. "The helicopter landed in conditions of poor visibility, while colliding with the ground, the car caught fire, three of the four people on board died, another was hospitalized," the source noted. The helicopter burned to the ground. Currently, experts and investigators are working at the site of the disaster.

On the night of Saturday, the capsule of the Ship "Soyuz" separated from the ISS and successfully delivered three cosmonauts to Earth, after a three -hour trip through the atmosphere of landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan. "Specialists of the search and rescue groups reached the descended apparatus of the Soyuz ship and began to evacuate the astronauts who returned to Earth." All astronauts feel good, "the flight control center said.

The Canadian skater Patrick Chan for the third time in his career became the world champion in figure skating, and the “promising” protege of Tatyana Tarasova -Maxim Kovtun, the only Russian who acted in this type of program, took 17th place. The Canadian, despite two falls, scored the best amount of points in the competition - 267.78 points. The second result was shown by Denis Ten from Kazakhstan, and the Spaniard Javier Fernandez deserved a bronze award.

The hockey team from the Norwegian city of Stavanger, which houses the largest oil company in the country, in the near future can replenish the list of participants in the KHL championship. According to Izvestia , the strongest club of the Elite League of Norway - HC Stavanger Oilers, the story of which begins in 2000, began negotiations with representatives of the KHL and discusses the conditions necessary for the entry of "oil industry" to the league.

In China, at the parliamentary congress, they continue to approve the highest officials as part of a traditional ten -year rotation. The Chinese diplomat Van was appointed on Saturday for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC, the website of this Chinese department says. Chan Vanzuan is the new Minister of Defense. Van and, a 59-year-old diplomat, since 2008 oversaw the relations of mainland China with Taiwan, recalls Interfax .

The Coordination Council of the opposition on Saturday agreed on mass shares for the spring: the main should be a rally on Bolotnaya Square on the anniversary of the arrests on May 6. The rally will be held under the slogan "For freedom!" Most of the participants of the Coordinating Council of the opposition (CSO), who were held on Saturday in Moscow, voted for the corresponding proposal of CSR member Peter Tsarkov. Photos of the schedule were posted on Instagram Alexei Navalny.

The Venezuelan authorities abandoned the embalming of the body of Hugo Chavez after the report of Russian scientists , said Minister of Communications and Information of the Republic Ernesto Viliegas. The president who died of cancer was buried in the Museum of the Revolution . The decision was made on the basis of the "report of the commission of Russian doctors", which states that for embalming the body of Chavez would have to be taken to Russia for a period of 7 to 8 months.

The German pilot Ralph Schumacher, who played in the DTM championship, decided to complete the career of the rider. The 37-year-old brother of the seven-time formula-1 champion Michael Schumacher signed a contract with the Mukke team, where he will execute the control functions. “I seriously considered the future in recent weeks and came to the conclusion that it would be better for me to help Mercedes with changes in the DTM program in the managerial position, and not while driving.

The Afghans who illegally entered the territory of Uzbekistan attacked the border outfit and tried to seize their weapons, during the clash of the three citizens of Afghanistan died, the press service of the State Border of the National Security Service said. According to the press service, "on Thursday, March 14, the border outfit of Uzbekistan when serving on the island of" Aral-Paigambar "(belongs to the Republic of Uzbekistan), more than 30 Afghan citizens were noticed.

“Their only right is to come to the polls and cast a ballot. And then how the results were counted - correctly or incorrectly, accurately compiled protocols on the voting results, or, as is usual lately, everything was rewritten in favor of You-Know-Which Party - us, This is no longer our concern. Our business is the ballot box: all our rights as a “source of power” end at the ballot box.

Karachay-Cherkessia will cooperate with Palestine in a number of key directions, said the head of the republic, Rashid Temrezov, commenting on negotiations with the President of the Palestinian Autonomy Mahmoud Abbas. “We have talked the directions of our bilateral cooperation in the field of agriculture, trade, culture, and of course tourism,” Temrezov said. The head of the republic noted that for the KCR this is a historical event.

Over the past day, almost a monthly snow rate has fallen in the capital - 31 mm of precipitation in the equivalent of water at a rate of 34 mm, Interfax was informed in the Hydrometeorological University of Moscow and the Moscow Region. In total, about 45 mm of precipitation fell in Moscow in Moscow in the capital. "In the morning of Friday in the capital, a powerful snowfall was walking in the capital, which went on the rain late in the evening at a plus temperature.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, winning in the semifinals of the tournament in Indian-Wells compatriot Maria Kirilenko with a score of 6: 4, 6: 3, earned the right to play in the main match of the competition. In the final, Sharapova will meet with the Dange of Karolin Voznyatski, who overcome Angelica Kerber from Germany at a similar stage.

Municipal services of Moscow continue to eliminate the consequences of anomalous snowfall and took over 300 thousand cubic meters of snow on snow melting points, said Igor Parchment Vice-Mayor spokesman on Saturday on Saturday. About 14 thousand units of fitness equipment operate on the clearing of the streets. According to him, the city continues to be on duty around the clock -long mode of the Mosvodostok brigade, which quickly travel on the request and eliminate water accumulations.