The US Department of Labor on January 4 sent a lawsuit against Google to the court of administrative cases demanding that the agency provide confidential information about thousands of employees, AP reports. If Google refuses to fulfill this requirement, then the Ministry of Labor will receive the right to cancel the current contracts of the company with the federal authorities and ban the conclusion of new agreements.

The Singapore authorities closed for visiting part of the public beaches in the southeast and northeast of the country after the spill of about 300 tons of fuel, which occurred as a result of the collision of two dry cargoes in the Jokhor Strait. This is stated in a common statement by the National Environmental Protection Department.

The head of the US State Department John Kerry, in a letter on the occasion of the end of the current administration, said that Russia and America "are experiencing serious disagreements" in the Ukrainian crisis, recalling sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation.

At the CES exhibition in Las Vegas, Razer presented a prototype of an unusual gaming laptop equipped with three displays. According to The Verge , the laptop, called Project Valerie, developed on the basis of the Blade Pro model, received two additional backlit screens that automatically extend from the central part after opening the laptop lid. The resolution of each of the 17.3-inch displays is 3840*2160 pixels (4K Ultra HD), and the total screen resolution is 11520*2160 pixels.

Russian border guards detained a doctor from Kyiv on the border of Crimea and Ukraine, who tried to illegally carry about 50 kg of drugs in his car, reports TASS, citing a message from the Crimean border of the FSB of Russia. It is reported that the incident occurred on December 31, but it became known only today.

American Republican Senators Lindsay Graham and John McCain are preparing a bill with new sanctions against Russia. Graham said this in a commentary to CNN . What kind of sanctions are it, he did not specify. According to Graham, if Trump does not respond to Russian intervention properly, then other countries can dare to hack American computer systems in the next election.

The Slovak motorcycle racer Ivan Yakesh suffered while participating in the Dakar rally marathon, which is held in South America. The athlete received a lightning stab, according to the page of his official Fanklub on Facebook . The incident occurred during the third stage of the rally near the Argentinean city of San Salvador de Ruzhui, TASS reports with reference to Slovak Radio .

16 people are in the hospital after an accident that occurred the day before in the Altai Territory, Oleg Salagai, official representative of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, said on Thursday. "At present, 16 people remain in the hospitals, the condition of two of them is evaluated as difficult," said Salagai (quote for Interfax ).

The Investigative Department of the RF IC for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug opened two criminal cases against employees of the OMVD on duty in the city of Pyt-Yah and the acting head of the criminal investigation department on the fact of excess of official powers with the use of violence and special funds, the press release of the department said.

The company of the chosen President of the United States Donald Trump left the project of the 47-story Trump Tower skyscraper in the Georgian resort Batumi city, Bloomberg reports with reference to Trump Organization Trump and its Georgian project, the private investment company Silk Road Group. The project cost was $ 250 million.

The Russian authorities appealed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the complaints of the defendant of the "Swamp case" by Yaroslav Belousov. Last fall, the court admitted that the rights of a Russian who served a prison term in a resonant case were violated, and decided to pay him compensation.

Two people were injured as a result of shooting the night before near the fast food restaurant in the Istanbul region of Fatikh. This was announced by CNN Türk . According to updated information, unknown at about 17:30 on Wednesday opened fire on a white car parked at the entrance to the institution. Eyewitnesses of the incident say they heard four to five shots.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev came on a working visit to the Krasnodar Territory and held a meeting on the use of sports and tourist Olympic facilities. The head of government also personally examined the objects of Krasnaya Polyana, visited the rink and even regretted that he did not take skates with him, reports TASS.

More than 40 settlements in three areas of the Kaluga region, where the second day continues heavy snowfall with a snowstorm, remained without energy supply, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Emergencies. "As a result of adverse weather reasons, a number of incidents related to power supply in the Kaluga region occurred in the territory of the central region.

Belarus, as expected , decided to increase tariffs for oil transportation services for trunk pipelines located in the republic. The corresponding resolution of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade (March) of Belarus was published on January 5 by the Nanational Legal Internet portal. According to the document, new tariffs will be valid from February 1 to March 31, 2017.