In the Smolensk region in the city of Yartsevo, a pensioner who has been living without light for a month, announced a hunger strike. According to the “working path” portal, they turned off electricity in her apartment for debts. The woman herself believes that her debt "controversial". According to familiar pensioners, they turned to the supervisory authorities and are currently waiting for an answer.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper left his post after his conservative party lost the parliamentary elections of the Liberal Party. “For the past nine years, I have been proud of being your prime minister. It was an excellent experience,” Harper said, speaking to fellow citizens in his campaign headquarters in Kalgary (Alberta province). “The results of the elections did not live up to our expectations, but the people are never mistaken.

Residents and guests of Prague will probably soon be able to connect to the Internet or charge a smartphone or tablet on the street as part of the Living Wi-Fi network project, which will make up homeless people with their bodies, According to Euromag , the project is now tested on a 56-year-old Radim, which has been making a living over the past five years, selling flowers at the exit from the metro. Soon, other people who fell into a difficult life situation will be able to join the project.

The authorities of the American state Ohio suspended the death executions of criminals until 2017 due to the lack of drugs used for injection. According to the local department of rehabilitation and correction, in 2016 11 death sentences were supposed to be carried out, and in 2017 - four. Associated Press writes that the delay will affect 12 convicts, since the execution of one of them is planned at the beginning of 2017.

Krasnodar on November 17 can be accepted by a friendly match of the Russian national football team with the Croatian team, the corresponding negotiations are already underway, but the decision has not yet been made. This was announced by the Minister of Physical Culture and Sports of the Krasnodar Territory Lyudmila Chernova. “Negotiations are underway on holding a friendly match of the Russian national football team in Krasnodar, but a specific decision has not yet been made.

From October 14 to 18, a delegation of 50 rabbis, leaders of Jewish communities, as well as businessmen from all over Russia and trustees of the Federation of Jewish communities went on a trip to the holy places of Israel in solidarity with the people of this country. ( Federation of Jewish communities of Russia , (Feor).

On Monday, October 19, US President Barack Obama called the International Space Station (ISS) to congratulate Scott Kelly on a record stay in orbit among American astronauts - last Friday he exceeded the achievement of the compatriot Mike Finka, spending 383 days at the station. “Records are set for this so that they can be beaten later,” Kelly said in response to Obama's congratulations, TASS writes.

Hackers from the Anonymous International group, known by a series of revelations , released a new portion of compromising evidence. On their website, they published a correspondence, which, approved, belongs to the chairman of the Accounts Chamber and the former Minister of Health Tatyana Golikova. Hackers pay attention to the fact that the head of the Accounts Chamber allegedly uses Gmail American postal service for official correspondence.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) has clarified the question of the personality of the driver who arranged a resonant accident with Ferrari in the center of Moscow. The culprit of the incident was a young man named Thomas Leviev , the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin said on Tuesday on the SKR website . Earlier, the media called a slightly different surname - Levaev.

The Japanese authorities for the first time admitted that radioactive irradiation caused a cancerous disease of one of the participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Fukushima-1 NPP. Previously, cancer cases have already been recorded among a group of liquidators, but experts every time came to the conclusion that the disease was not related to radiation.

The European Union is seriously concerned about the growing role of the Internet in the spread of the ideas of Islamism.

Latvia to combat illegal migration can build a fence on the border with Belarus, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Laimdota Finding told the local television channel LSM . The reason for this decision was the recent detention of large groups of refugees from Iraq, who penetrated the country from Belarusian territory. According to Strayuma, if you do not protect the border now, illegal immigrants may have a new path to penetrate the EU.

Engineer Ross Zhuravsky created a prototype of the Lumen flashlight, for the functioning of which other sources of energy is not required, except for the heat of the human body. You can find out more about the gadget on the project page on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. According to N+1 , the device case is made of metal and acts as a radiator. Inside, a voltage stabilizer, an LED, an ionistor and a thermoelectroge generator are installed inside.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to statements by representatives of the Estonian military command regarding the expansion of the Emari military air base. Russian diplomats said that they consider this a “provocative step”, and complained that the Estonian authorities “donate civil objects” for NATO.

Disney has unveiled the official trailer for the seventh episode of the movie Steel Wars. The video lined on Tuesday on Twitter of the saga lasts about two and a half minutes. The commentary to the video says: "Strength. She appeals to you." The Zvezdnaya Wars microblog also reports on the start of the sale of tickets for film show - two months before the premiere.