The disqualification of the football player of the Argentine national team Lionel Messi in international matches can be reduced from four to two meetings, writes the Argentine publication La Nacion . At the end of March, FIFA announced the four -match disqualification of Messi for insulting the assistant judge in the meeting of the qualifying stage of the World Cup with the Chilea team.

Explosions near the bus of the Borussia Dortmund football club in German Dortmund were unlikely to work with radical Islamists, German journalists considered the results of their own investigation. Letters were found on the spot, after which an investigation of a possible connection began, but experts consider them an attempt to send an investigation on a false track.

April living in the American zoo April gave birth to a cub: about 1.2 million people were watched online , AR reports. The online broadcast began in February, as it was expected that it would give birth until the end of winter. A long wait turned her into a star. 15-year-old April lives in the Animal Adventure Park zoo in New York. According to the owner of the zoo Jordan Patch, the birth was successful.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on media publications about hundreds of tons of chemical weapons preserved in Syria after an incomplete liquidation of arsenals. He considered it strange that the former general general was silent for so long and suggested that he was "stimulated", RIA Novosti reports. “I saw reports of the statements of a fugitive Syrian general. Of these, it follows that he fled in 2013. In the same year, a Russian -American agreement was reached ...

After the end of the fourth match of the final series of the Gagarin Cup between the St. Petersburg SKA and Magnitogorsk Metallurg, the President of the Russian Hockey Federation Vladislav Tretyak explained what the striker Zaripov should be done. “Vadim Shipachev (on which there was a foul) was without a puck, Zaripov couldn’t beat him, these are pure two minutes. The“ Magnitoga ”claims are normal, everyone always has claims, this is hockey. Zaripov’s words about ballet?

The court in St. Petersburg arrested two alleged recruiters of terrorists. The media called their names. According to Fontanka , the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg for two months arrested a native of the city of Osh Obit of Abdyrasimov. According to the press service of the City Court, he is suspected of promoting terrorist activities. He is 39 years old, his police officers detained the day before. Earlier, the court arrested Azhigit Aitmatov - he was stopped at the Ladoga station.

The United States did not begin to make China on the list of currency manipulators, which is compiled to combat "potentially unscrupulous currency practitioners" and for the development of fair trade. This was reported in a report published by the American Ministry of Finance on Friday.

Tens of thousands of Christians from all over the world gathered on Saturday on the streets of old Jerusalem in anticipation of the fertile fire, which annually lights up on the eve of the Orthodox Easter in Kuvuklia - the chapel above the coffin of the Lord in the Jerusalem Church of the Resurrection of Christ (the grave of the Lord). The police and the military are on duty around the perimeter of the walls of old Jerusalem, several rows of cordons are installed near each gate in the city.

On Saturday evening, after several hours of stay in the police department of the city of Pushkin, one of the leaders of the All -Russian strike against the Plato system Andrei Bazhutin was released, Echo Moscow reports with reference to his own correspondent. Earlier, the motorist, together with his associates, was detained on the exit from the truckers camp on the Moscow highway.

In Italy, the oldest woman in the world died - Emma Morano . She was born in 1899 and in her 117 years was the only person who found the 19th century. Morano was reported about the death of ANSA with reference to her relatives, the information was confirmed by her personal doctor. The eldest of eight children, Emma was born a month before the end of the 1800s, when Umberto I ruled in Italy, and the now legendary Milan football club existed only a few weeks.

In Volgograd, the armed man intervened in the action of truckers against the Plato system and, threatening the drivers of heavy trucks with a gun, shouted that they spoil the business, reports the Caucasian Knot portal with reference to the regional union of carriers and entrepreneurs. “The truckers called me and informed me that a person in a black car threatens with weapons. When he left, he said:“ Well, stand, the brigade will come now, it will deal with you.

The American authorities intend to continue to increase pressure on North Korea, but are not going to resort to military methods, the Associated Press agency, citing high -ranking sources. Washington hopes to reassure the intertwined situation on the Korean Peninsula with a diplomatic way with the support of China, the chief trading partner of the DPRK.

In Sweden and Finland, they collect money for the evacuation of Chechen gays, which are persecuted because of their sexual orientation. The start of the action in Finland on Saturday was reported by the Yle State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. In Sweden, money began to be collected much earlier, after the first resonance publication of the "independent newspaper", DW recalls.

The British anti-doping agency (Yukad) will conduct extra-supporting doping testing in clubs of the Russian football Premier League (Premier League). This information was confirmed by TASS “This is the first time, but there is nothing wrong with that,” said the chairman of the Medical Committee of the RFU, Eduard Bezuglov TASS.

The five -time winner of the large helmet tournaments, Russian Maria Sharapova, believes that tennis players should not continue to criticize her and demand that she bear additional punishment for the use of Meldonium. “I am already serving my sentence, why do some demand more?” Said Sharapova, quoted by Tennis.com , referring to Le Parisien magazine.