The alleged new leader of the Taliban movement Mulla Mansur turned to all the Taliban with an audio image, in which he called for struggle for the whole of Afghanistan to move under Islamic rule. At the same time, the representative of the Taliban in an interview with the Air Force stated that the procedure for the election of Mansur was broken, which gave observers a reason to talk about a split in the Taliban.

The International Sailing Sports Federation (ISAF) will conduct its own independent study of water in the Guanabara Gulf, where it is planned to hold competitions in sailing, kayaking and canoeing and swimming in the triathlon at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, for viruses.

In the match of the third round of the Zenit football championship in St. Petersburg at the Petrovsky stadium, Grozny "Terek" defeated. The fate of the confrontation was resolved very quickly. Already at the very beginning of the meeting, the guests twice recklessly played on the defense, allowing the owners to create a comfortable gap for themselves and in the future to feel calm.

The committee of torture recognized by the Foreign Agent on Saturday is officially liquidated, and all its employees will go to the new organization with the same leader - the Committee for the Prevention of Torture. The liquidation of the organization is reported on its website . The conference participants decided to unanimously liquidation. "On August 3, the Ministry of Justice of Russia will be notified of this," the report said.

The Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov paid the first tranche of compensation under the terminated contract with the head coach of the Russian national football team Fabio Capello, the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko said on the air of the Russia 2 television channel. The contract with the Italian coach was terminated on July 14 by agreement of the parties. Usmanov previously stated that he did not allocate money to pay for the penalty.

A large -scale decision to reduce social benefits entered into force in the Moscow region: from August 1, pensioners living in the Moscow Region no longer have the right to preferential travel in the public transport of the capital. The authorities are ready to compensate for trips to the capital only as prescribed by the attending physician and in a modest amount. Saponated 3.5 billion officials promise to send schools to the construction of schools.

After the arrests of Russian property in France and Belgium, in the lawsuit of the ex-defense systems of Yukos, the property of the Russian Federation in the United States turned out to be $ 50 billion under threat. The Foreign Ministry is preparing to resist this, warning the United States about the possibility of taking response to American companies and citizens in the event of the arrest of Russian property.

Interpol refused to declare Mikhail Saakashvili on the international wanted list, as Georgian authorities demanded, the Russian Air Force Service reports with reference to the main prosecutor's office of Georgia. They reported that they intend to contact Interpol again with a similar request. Saakashvili held a presidential post in Georgia from January 2004 to November 2007 and from January 2008 to November 2013. In Georgia, the former president is a defendant in several criminal cases.

In the Krasnodar Territory, four cars collided on the highway. As a result of a large accident in the Dinsky district, five people were killed, six more were injured and hospitalized in two district hospitals, reports the Ministry of Emergencies in the region. The accident occurred on the Krasnodar-Kropotkin highway in the area of ​​the village of Vasyurinskaya. "The accident occurred today at about 06:00 Moscow time. Four cars collided on the track.

The election room of the Magadan region refused to register the list of candidates of the Parnas party to the elections of deputies of the Legislative Assembly, TASS reports with reference to the commission. Earlier, the working group for checking signature sheets recommended refusing to register the list of candidates on the basis that more than 10 percent of the signatures are invalid. As TASS explained by the chairman of the election commission Vladimir Epifanov, this is not the only basis.

A resident of Manchester Mark Pinder, whose 12-year-old son suffers from the incurable muscle dystrophy syndrome, made a tattoo with the emblem "Manchester United", the main opponent of his beloved club. In this way, the Manchester City fan wanted to show that there is nothing impossible in life. Earlier, Pinder promised to fill the tattoo only if he was gathering donations in the amount of ten thousand pounds to study his son’s deadly illness, and he succeeded.

The known in the past, striker of the London Chelsea, Dzhanfranko Dzola, now heads of the Al-Arabi club, offers the striker of the Italian national team and the English Liverpool Mario Balotelli to go to Qatar. This week, the head coach of Liverpool, Brendan Rogers, told Balotelli that he no longer needs his services. Mario will spend the rest of the transfer window in search of a new club. “Cassano and Balotelli?

The wing of the wing of the Boeing-777 aircraft, discovered on the coast of the French Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, was taken to Toulouse, AFP reports. In this city in the south of France, there is a specialized laboratory, whose employees are instructed to conduct a comprehensive study in order to establish the belonging of the found fragment, which, perhaps, belongs to the missing MN-370 flight. The find was made on Wednesday.

At the Blackbush Airport in the Count of Gampshire in the south of England, the Phenom 300 light -engine aircraft crashed, four people and three passengers became victims of the incident. There are no survivors. According to The Daily Mail , the aircraft belonged to the relatives of Osama Ben Laden . The incident occurred during landing - Phenom 300 flew to England from the Italian Milan, where the family of the former "terrorist number one" has interests, the newspaper writes.

The Olympic torch, which during the relay races before the 1984 games in Los Angeles carried the famous American decenter Bruce Jenner, sold at auction in Chicago for almost 24 thousand dollars. Jenner in 1984 ran with this torch about a kilometer in the area of ​​Lake Tahot in Nevada. Bruce, the 1976 Olympic champion, in April underwent a floor change operation, after which he took the name Caitlin.