The militants from the radical Islamist group "Boko Haram", operating in Nigeria, liberated 192 people captured earlier this month in the state of Yobe in the northeast of Nigeria. This was reported by Reuters agency. According to local authorities and sources in the Armed Forces of this African country, most of allocated captives are women. They were stolen by extremists during a raid to the village of Katarko.

The Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Ural Federal District Igor Kholmanski, who simultaneously heads the interregional public movement "in defense of the person of labor", at the reporting and election congress of the movement, which took place on January 24 in Yekaterinburg, called on the audience "to give a fifth column a hard rebuff, " Kommersant writes.

Russian scientists drilled a well to the relict lake of the East in Central Antarctica, TASS reports. “The penetration into the lake occurred today at 13:12 Moscow time, I received a telegram from Antarctica at 18:10,” Valery Lukin, head of the Russian Antarctic expedition, told the agency.

Emergency brigades eliminated the breakthrough of the heating main at the intersection of Budennovsky Prospekt and Telman Street, nine people were hospitalized with burns, Interfax told in emergency services of the region. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the accident was liquidated at 06:00 Moscow time. In the ambulance hospital N2 (BSMP-2) of the city of Rostov-on-Don were delivered with burns of the first and second degree nine people.

In East of India, the police detained two Russian students due to strengthening security measures in connection with the visit of US President Barack Obama. The incident occurred in the village of Nialy (Orissa) the day before, but it became known only today. Locals called the police, seeing two young people with large backpacks on the road of the road. They were detained and delivered to the police station of the city of Puri, reports TASS.

US President Barack Obama arrived in India on Sunday morning with an official visit, which both sides have high hopes, the American and Indian media reported. The AR agency notes that the current visit is unprecedented in nature, since for the first time in history the American president visits India for the second time during his stay as head of state.

The victims of the riots in Egypt have become 15 people today, about 40 were injured. This was reported by the Ministry of Health of the HEAR. According to the agency, 9 people were killed in fierce clashes in the Cairo suburb - Mataria. Among the dead - a soldier and a child from a Christian family, reports TASS. In addition, earlier clashes between supporters and opponents of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi broke out at the syndicate of journalists in the center of Cairo.

The Russian skier Maxim Vylegzhanin became the winner in the discipline of Schiatlon (15 km by the classical style + 15 km free style) at the stage of the World Cup, which takes place in Rybinsk. Vyglezhanin overcame the distance in 1 hour 21 minutes 54.8 seconds. The second place was taken by the Swiss Dario Kolonya, who lost 2.7 seconds to the Russian. The third with a delay of 6.2 seconds was Finn Matty Hikekinen. “The race turned out well,” the Maxim “All Sports” quotes.

About 20% of Russians can remain without the insurance part of the pension, since no one pays contributions to the Pension Fund for them. The Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Russia Maxim Topilin reported this in an interview with Rossiy newspaper . According to him, "about 20% of the population at working age we do not see from the databases of the Pension Fund." “We assume that most of them work, but insurance premiums are not paid for them,” the minister said.

At the sixth stage of the Biathlon World Cup in the Italian Antholz-Anterselva, relay races took place. Norwegians won in men, who used five additional cartridges on eight firing borders and finished over 1 hour 15 minutes 36.7 seconds. The second place was taken by the German national team (7 additional cartridges, the lag +16.4 seconds), and the French became third (5 additional cartridges, +42 seconds).

In the village of Teriberk, the Murmansk region, where the film of Andrei Zvyagintsev “Leviathafan” nominated on Oscar was shot, on Sunday, a show of this film, which caused a violent negative reaction in Russia, was held on Sunday. According to Flashnord , a show organized by the Rain television channel began at 16:00 in a local culture house. In the hall, designed for 150 people, there are no free places, many are standing along the walls.

The European Union convenes an emergency meeting between the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Country of Countries on the situation in Ukraine in the coming Thursday, January 29. This was announced today by the Supreme EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. “I am convening an extraordinary council at the level of foreign ministers in Ukraine on Thursday,” the EU head quoted TASS.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko stated on Sunday, opening a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) that the situation along the entire line of clash with the separatists detachments is stable, the Armed Forces of Ukraine "control the entire front line," Newsru.ua reports. This was confirmed by the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak.

The bodies of three men with stab wounds were found after a fire in one of the apartments in the village near Moscow, a source in law enforcement agencies said on Sunday . On the eve of 10:30 in the village of Zholevo, the Stupinsky district, a fire occurred in the apartment. After the fire was extinguished, the bodies of three men with multiple stab wounds were found. Currently, on suspicion of murder, two previously convicted local residents have been established and detained.

The striker of Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo is threatened with a disqualification for a period of 4 to 12 matches for unsportsmanlike behavior on the field in the victorious match of the Spanish championship in the “Cordodian” championship, which ended with a account of 2: 1. At the 82nd minute of the meeting, Ronaldo received a direct red card.