The postal plane of the Swedish company West Atlantic broke on the night of January 8 in the area of ​​the Swedish-Norwegian border, reports The Local . There were two pilots on board, their death has not yet been confirmed. The crew was a 42 -year -old captain, a citizen of Spain, and the navigator - Frenchman. The flight was made from Oslo Airport to the north of Norway to the city of Troms. The distress signal was sent at about 23:31 local time, the airline said.

Because of the cold, in Russia, not only the residents of the houses left without warmth or students with holes with holes in the windows, but also travelers, suffer. For more than three hours, the passengers of the Murmansk -St. Petersburg train had to spend in wagons, Flashnord reports. The incident occurred with the N287 train. He could not be sent on a schedule due to severe frosts, the representative of the Russian Railways said. "There was a breakdown of one of the wagons due to icing.

The President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Michel Platini announced his candidacy from the election of the head of the International Football Federation (FIFA), Interfax reports. Previously suspended, together with the president of the International Football Federation, Joseph Blatter from football activities for eight years, Platini stated that he considers himself a victim of a conspiracy by the FIFA Committee on Ethics.

According to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, the deadline for the placement of funds of the National Welfare Fund (FNB) on deposits in Vnesheconombank (VEB) has been increased by five years in order to ensure the sufficiency of its capital while reducing the interest rate and establishing a grace period of payment of interest for a period of up to three years, according to the government’s website .

On the Korean Peninsula and in the world in the world, a reaction to the demarche of North Korea with a test of a hydrogen bomb , which the DPRK authorities announced on January 6, continues. Mass rallies and meetings in support of Kim Jong -un are held in the DPRK itself, who on January 8 secretly celebrates his birthday. South Korea resumed propaganda across the border. And the United States thinks about new, more effective methods of pressure on Pyongyang.

The first winter bicycle parade will be held in the capital on Saturday, Interfax reports. The city hall expects to see thousands of cyclists on it, whom even crackling frost will not stop. The authorities of the capital supported the initiative of cycling activists about the holding of the first winter Moscow bicycle parade. This was stated by Deputy Mayor of the city Maxim Liksutov at a meeting of the city government.

US President Barack Obama initiated a public discussion on the regulation of the arms market on CNN . Unusual was not so much the call of the president, consistently advocating for restriction of sales against the backdrop of mass executions regularly taking place in the United States as a format: communication with Obama took place at the University of George Mason in a suburb of Washington in the form of a meeting with the townspeople.

Seven people were injured in an accident involving a police car, which occurred on the morning of January 8 in the center of Moscow. "" According to preliminary information, on January 8, at the theater passage, a collision of a private security car and a car occurred on the theater passage, "the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the capital told Interfax .

One of the members of the Islamic State Terrorist group banned in Russia (IGIL, ISIS or Daish ) executed its own mother, reports Syriahr.com with reference to the Syrian Council for Human Rights. According to human rights activists, a monstrous case of cruelty occurred in the city of Al-Kraka. A 40-year-old woman tried to persuade a 20-year-old son to leave the ranks of IG.

In the city of Sochi, the Krasnodar Territory, many parishioners hardly visited the Christmas service due to the zeal of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Cossacks. The law enforcement officers blocked the main entrance to the temple of Mikhail Archangel under the pretext of "fighting terrorism." As it turned out, the police simply did not work at the entrance to the church.

Two Russians Natalya Krinitsina and Julia Zadina from now on is prohibited to approach the American singer Lana Del Rey more than 100 yards (about 91 meters), NME reports. Such a court decision was made due to the fact that two fans publicly insulted the singer, and also sent her letters with threats to her.

They decided to dismantle the gold statue of Mao Zedong in China three days after installation. Messages about the monument, who portrayed the sitting Mao, appeared in the Western media on January 4 and caused a flurry of ridicule in the West. After that, the statue in the Central Chinese province of Henan began to disassemble, reports NPR . Messages about this appeared on social networks.

The St. Petersburg deputy Vitaliy Milonov will ask the Ministry of Emergencies to develop the rules for using pyrotechnic products, fireworks and firecrackers near apartment buildings to avoid fires and dangerous situations. The proposal includes, in particular, the ban on the sale of firecrackers and other pyrotechnics to persons under the age of 18, as well as the restriction of the zones of their use by parks and wastelands, reports Fontanka.ru .

The Turkish Foreign Ministry protested Tehran in connection with the publications in the Iranian media that the visit of the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to Saudi Arabia is connected with the execution of the famous Shiite theologian, Ayatollah Nimrar An-Nemire on December 29, 2015. In connection with the publications, the IRI ambassador was called to the department, TASS reports. Earlier, President Erdogan called the execution of the Shiite preacher by the internal case of Saudi Arabia.

Two Swiss cities recorded cases of "New Year's harassment" - similar to those that occurred in the German Cologne . After this report on the preparation of attacks came from Finland , and now from Switzerland and Austria - from Zurich and Salzburg, DW reports. Cases of sexual harassment, apparently, occurred at the largest public party in Switzerland on New Year's Eve in Zurich.