The man who opened fire on the Amsterdam-Paris train was neutralized by two US troops, CNN reports with reference to a senior European official familiar with the details of what happened. According to the interlocutor of the television channel, the attacker fired from a pistol in one of the Americans, and his comrade, as LE Soir writes, received a knife wound. The President of the United States Barack Obama thanked the military for the help that they provided to local law enforcement agencies.

Thousands of refugees and migrants blocked in the camp on the border of Greece and Macedonia, broke through a police cordon and rushed into the territory of the Balkan country, reports Reuters with reference to their own reporter at the scene of the emergency. He said that the police applied several light-school stunning grenades, but the refugee managed to break through the cordon, and many, apparently, managed to hide.

The Syrian air defense forces shot down an Israeli fighter in the south-west of Syria, Kommersant reports with reference to Fars News. It is clarified that the plane was shot down in the airspace over the city of El Cuner on August 21. The fate of the pilot or pilots is not specified, the type of aircraft is also unknown. Israel regularly violates the air boundaries of Syria - usually the raids are a response to shelling from Syrian territory.

The explosion thundered on Saturday evening in a warehouse for the storage of chemicals in the province of Shandun in the east of the PRC, Xinhua reports. After the explosion, a fire broke out. RIA Novosti with reference to PEOPLE's Daily reports eight injured in the explosion. The emergency occurred in the Eastern Province of Shandun in the city district of Tsybo. According to media reports, an explosive wave was felt in a radius of two to five kilometers.

The most popular colloquial radio station of the Echo Moskvy capital on Saturday celebrates the 25th anniversary of the founding: for the first time, the radio station was aired on August 22, 1990 called Radio-M. The editor -in -chief of the station, Alexei Venediktov, promises to continue to provide air to all points of view, including radical ones.

The volleyball players of the Russian national team achieved a confident victory over the team of the Dominican Republic with a score of 3: 0 (25:15, 25:18, 25:18) in their starting match at the World Cup, which takes place in Japan. The most productive player in the meeting was Diagonal Natalya Obmochaeva, who scored 24 points. In the next match on Sunday, the Russian national team will play with the hostesses of the tournament - the Japanese team.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed to consider teaching in foreign languages ​​in Russian universities - this, in his opinion, can attract foreign applicants. “It is necessary to teach not only in Russian. This is normal, you need to teach in world languages ​​- in English, in Chinese. There is nothing wrong with this, although we live in the Russian Federation. This is normal,” RIA Novosti quotes.

The Ukrainian authorities brought the American boxer Roy Jones Jr. on the black list after he visited Crimea and met there with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

South Korea and the DPRK agreed to hold an emergency meeting to resolve the current crisis. According to Yonhap, the negotiations at a high level will be held in the border Phanmunjom at 18:00 local time (12:00 Moscow time). Soon after the announcement of the negotiations, a new warning was also heard: the army of South Korea promised to destroy the North Korean units in case of opening of fire. In addition, the south did not postpone the evacuation of residents from the border areas.

The Olympic champion in Biathlon Anton Shipulin said in an interview with the R-Sport agency that he is interested in human physiology and is going to write candidate dissertation next year. In 2012, Shipulin graduated from the magistracy of the Institute of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Ural Federal University. “I try to read a lot of literature, form in terms of physiology.

In the match of the sixth round of the Russian football championship, the capital's "Spartak" in Perm was outplayed by Amkar. The guests came forward in the 20th minute: Roman Shirokov from his half of the field completed a free zone for Yura Movsisyan, who, having fled one on one with Roman Gerus, perfectly disposed of his chance - 1: 0.

In the starting match of the sixth round of the Russian football championship in the formidable Terek and Dynamo, they tied with a score of 1: 1. Muscovites stepped forward shortly before the break: Alexander Kokorin (41 ') closed Alexander Tashaev's background. The landlords restored the equilibrium with the efforts of Jose Maurisio (69 '), who, with the help of a ricochet, upset the guests.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the end of the week, marked by the record drop in the ruble course, promised his return "to normal levels." Exporters will sell foreign exchange earnings, and the government will help the Central Bank, he said. The prime minister did not call specific measures, indicating only that the fall of the ruble is associated with a decrease in oil prices. Over the past year, the ruble fell by almost 49% .

A copy of the famous Swiss tennis player Roger Federer was presented in the Museum of the wax figures of the Chinese province of Sichuan, Gotennis.ru reports. It is noteworthy that the wax statue of one of the most successful athletes of our time, like other exhibits of the exhibition, has a very distant resemblance to the original.

The Russian railway troops discovered and neutralized seven bombs of the war during the construction of the bypass railway Zhuravka-Millerovo bypassing the territory of Ukraine, the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation told reporters, Army General Dmitry Bulgakov, who arrived for a fifth time with a working trip to the Voronezh region to monitor the construction of the road.