The authorities of the California city of San Jose announced the evacuation of 14 thousand inhabitants due to flood, Reuters reports. As a result of the spill of the Koyot-Crick River on February 21, several regions of the city were flooded. The San Jose authorities decided to evacuate the inhabitants of more than 1000 houses so as not to endanger the population. At least 300 houses were damaged, but there were no reports of injuries or deaths.

Leonid Gozman "If we were a normal country, then on February 23 it would not be a holiday, but in the afternoon of sorrow and repentance. Seventy -three years ago, the NKVD fighters, who, of course, could not be compared with the SS men - they were with the stars, and not with the swastika - they were killed, sent to the death and suffering of their fellow citizens, the only guilty people and Ingushi." On your Facebook page.

Two people were injured as a result of a rigid landing of the NG-4 light-engine aircraft near the Hatenka village airfield in the Kaluga Region, TASS reports with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. The plane landed in the field near the Hatenka airfield, the message arrived at 19:50 in Moscow. “As a result of a rigid landing, two people were injured, they were hospitalized in the Kaluga Regional Hospital,” the agency was told in the Ministry of Emergencies.

The players of Krasnodar, having tied 1: 1 in Istanbul in the return match of the 1/16 finals of the Europa League with the Turkish Fenerbahce, won a ticket to the 1/8 tournament in the sum of two meetings. As part of the Krasnodar, the striker Fedor Smolov (7 ') struck the exact blow, and the midfielder of the sauce (41') scored at Fenerbach. “They set two tasks: not to miss at 0-0,” said Krasnodartsev coach Igor Shalimov at a press conference.

The popular American gamer Brian Vignio, known as Poshhybrid, organized the Marathon of the World of Tanks game in order to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation charity organization. The broadcasts lasted about 20 hours, and the 24-hour stream was supposed to be the culmination of the week, EUROSPORT reports. Vignio, who lived in the city of Virginia-Beach, began playing on February 18 at 5:30 local time and was supposed to finish by Sunday evening.

The Senator of the US Congress Republican John McCain last week made a secret trip to Syria to meet with the American military and supported by Kurdish militias and discuss the fight against the Islamic State terrorist group (IG, Daish , is prohibited in the Russian Federation). This was reported by The Wall Street Journal with reference to unnamed American officials.

The decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the release of opposition Ildar Dadin has not yet been delivered to the colony of Rubtsovsk (Altai Territory), where he is serving a sentence, Interfax reports with reference to the wife of activist Anastasia Zotov. She intends to be in Rubtsovsk until her husband is released. “We are waiting for Ildar all day at the colony.

The UN Secretary General Antoniu Gutherrish proposed to create a new department for the fight against terrorism, at the head of which his deputy would stand. He reported this on Wednesday at an informal meeting of the General Assembly.

The organization on security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) intends to increase the number of observers in its special monitoring mission in Ukraine, strengthen its technical potential and increase patrol hours along the contact line. This was announced at a meeting of the UN Security Council by the chairman of the OSCE, the Foreign Minister of Austria Sebastian Kurtz.

On Thursday, the Vienna Land Court considered Spain’s request to extradite Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash and decided to release him without making an additional collateral. This is stated in a statement by Firtash’s lawyers, transferred to the Interfax-Ukraine agency. "The court refused the Vienna prosecutor’s office to arrest D. Firtash, since there was no risk of the failure of D. Firtash at the request of the court. The court ordered D.

The skier of Adrian Solano from Venezuela was unable to finish in a qualification race at a distance of 10 km at the World Sports Championship, which takes place in the Finnish Lahti. At the start of the race, the Woe-Sportsman made a number of comic falls, after which he broke the ski stick and removed from the distance at the mark of 6.1 km (at that time his lag behind the leader of the race was about 38 minutes).

The premiere show of the documentary "Boris Nemtsov. A too free person" with a full house was held in Nizhny Novgorod, collecting more than a thousand Nizhny Novgorod residents in the Electron cinema, NN.ru reports the Nizhny Novgorod site. The report from the premiere was published by the Volga television company. The only show of the film in Nizhny Novgorod was free.

Malaysia turned to Interpol with a request for help in the search for DPRK citizens, suspected of the death of Kim Chon Nam, the brother of the DPRK leader Kim Jong -un, Reuters reports with reference to the head of the National Police of Khalid Abu Bakar. According to the head of the Malaysian police, the authorities also sent a request to the DPRK embassy so that North Korea would allow one of its employees to interrogate.

The Russian branch of the Transparency International International Anti -Corruption Organization warned about five interest conflicts in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, including one associated with the renewal of the department of the Department of Superjet -100, according to the website of Transperentsi International -P. The report “Corruption risks in the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation asks to cancel the verdict convicted for repost to the teacher Evgenia Chudnovets. Deputy Prosecutor General Leonid Korzhinek introduced an appropriate cassation submission to the Russian Supreme Court, according to a message on the website of the supervisory authority. The submission raised the question of the cancellation of the sentence and the termination of the criminal case for the lack of corpus delicti.