The Lebanese Army is fighting with the extremist group "Jebhat al-Nusra" in the area of ​​the city of Ersal on the border with Syria. According to incoming messages, the military personnel returned the checkpoints in Masnyad and Wadi-Hmeida under their control. The losses of troops amounted to four people killed and 11 wounded, reports ITAR -TASS.

Since August 4, the Russian low-cost airline Lawkoster stops all flights due to the sanctions that the company has been subjected to flights to the Crimea . Companies canceled the leasing agreement on American Boeing aircraft. Money for tickets will be returned, the flights of Aeroflot - Orenburg Airlines will be made to Simferopol.

Marina Filippovna Khodorkovskaya, the mother of the former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, now living in Switzerland, died. The death of Khodorkovskaya was reported by The New Times , for whom Khodorkovsky periodically wrote columns during imprisonment. With a deterioration in her health, they associated the request of Khodorkovsky for pardon.

The US Aircraft Building Corporation GULFSSTREAM, after the introduction of US sanctions against the main shareholder of Volga Group, Gennady Timchenko stopped maintenance of a billionaire personal aircraft who fell under the sanctions for President Putin. Earlier, the businessman said that he was forced to abandon the trains of Europe . “The sanctions are manifested in the most bizarre way.

The number of victims of the landslide, which went on Wednesday in the Central state of Maharashrt in India, reached 82 people, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the NDTV television channel. Earlier it was reported about 73 dead. A few dozens of people can remain under the rubble. Local authorities say that such an incident due to rains can occur in 17 other settlements. Many residents of the village, where the landslide set off, left their homes, fearing a repetition of the tragedy.

In Donetsk, the regional center in the east of Ukraine, controlled by separatists, battles continued all night. One of the schools was destroyed, residents of many areas reported on explosions and movement of heavy equipment. It is difficult to evaluate the change in the front line, conflicting information is received: in particular, the separatists announced on Sunday in the morning that they won Krasnogorovka and Maryinka.

Two satellites launched by the Soviet Union should fall to the Earth on Monday, indicate the data of the American space space control system, which are given by Interfax . Having developed the Soviet satellite of the early warning system about the Cosmos-903 missile attack (type "Eye) will fall to Earth on the night of August 4.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) confirmed the fact of shelling of the Russian border checkpoint "Gukovo" in the Rostov region. Earlier, sources reported that a group of Ukrainian troops who asked for asylum in Russia came to Gukovo. “Our employees heard the sound from the artillery shell or something like that,” said Shiv Sharma, ITAS-secretary SHIV Sharma. “This incident did not interrupt the work of our representatives.

Another organized by the supporters of the opposition Alexei Navalny "Daching" - an attempt by a picnic from the cottages of eminent officials - turned into a pogrom. It was supposed to be held by the village of Akulinino, where, presumably, the summer house of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin is located. The initiative stumbled upon a serious opposition to the defenders of the calm of the official when the police connivance.

A group of 12 Ukrainian military laid out weapons and asked for asylum at the Gukovo border point in the Rostov Region, an Interfax agency on Sunday told the regional law enforcement agencies. If the information is confirmed, this will be not the first such incident: a week ago, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine investigated reports about the escape of 40 military personnel .

NATO Secretary General Anders Fog Rasmussen states that it has numerous information that indicates the guilt of the separatists in the crash of the Malaysian liner over Ukraine. The tragedy took the lives of 298 people. “This is a human tragedy. Moreover, this is a war crime. We have numerous data that indicate that the separatists supported by Russia are guilty.

The Malaysian edition of the New Straits Times claims that he managed to get acquainted with the first conclusions of experts analyzing the "black boxes" of Boeing 777, who had crashed in the Donetsk region, before their official publication. On board did not happen "nothing unusual", the negotiations of the pilots suggest that there was no freelance situation that preceded the disaster.

Specialists of the Ministry of Health of Russia arrived in Guinea to assist local doctors in the fight against the outbreak of Ebola’s fever, ITAR-TASS spokesman for the Ministry Oleg Salagai. The number of flash victims exceeded 700 people .

The delegation from extremist movements "Hamas" and "Islamic jihad" arrived in the capital of Egypt Cairo for indirect negotiations on a truce with Israel through Egyptian and American intermediaries, Reuters reports. Also, Bill Berns, Deputy Secretary of State Berns and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, arrived at negotiations in Cairo, RIA Novosti reports. "Hamas" is expected to require the boundary passage between Egypt and the gas sector.

Egyptian and Palestinian sources said on Sunday that in Cairo with the help of Egyptian intermediaries there was a meeting and indirect negotiations on the ceasefire between Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Islamic Dzhihad and Israel. Meanwhile, Israel the day before he said that he would not send representatives to Egypt, accusing the Palestinians of misleading international intermediaries, Reuters reports.