On the Rambla pedestrian street in the center of Barcelona, ​​the minibus crashed into a crowd of people, La Vanguardia writes. According to the Catalan police, the incident occurred at 17:00 (18:00 Moscow time). In addition, it is reported about shooting in the Barcelona Boker market and an armed attack on a restaurant. The Spanish Ser Radio , quoting sources in the police, speaks of 13 dead. According to official figures, the death of one person is confirmed, 32 were injured.

“I’m not ready to agree with the former minister, and now accused of bribery, Alexei Ulyukaev, that his trial should “in a historical sense benefit the Russian people.” But the fact that this trial will inevitably become an important milestone in the modern history of Russia is certain ", writes the editor-in-chief of the Daily Journal . “The historical milestone in this whole story is that a prominent Putin dignitary did not disdain the role of a vulgar decoy.

The Russian Internet search engine Yandex will launch an affiliate program this fall, within which the content of Yandex partner sites will be available directly in search results. The Izvestia newspaper was informed about this by the Yandex press service. As the company explained, links to such sites in search results will be marked with an icon in the form of a rocket. When you click on the link, the information will be shown in a separate window of the search engine itself.

The night on Tuesday, August 15, became the most bloody from the beginning of the campaign to combat drugs in the Philippines - 32 alleged drug trafficks were killed. Over the past day, 25 deaths have been registered, reports Reuters. President Rodrigo Duterte calls not to stop there. According to the government, from the moment Duterta took office in July last year, more than 3,000 alleged drug addicts and drug dealers were killed in the Philippines.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, as part of a weekly briefing with journalists, joined the correspondence polemic with the director of the CIA Michael Pompeo, who repeatedly accused the Kremlin of many years of attempts to undermine democracy in the United States. In response to this, Zakharova reminded Washington about $ 500 million, which were brought to Moscow on the eve of the 1996 presidential election, TASS reports.

The Australian Senator, the leader of the Ultra Party "One Nation" Polina Hanson on Thursday, August 17, appeared at the workplace in Burke. The politician decided to put on a female outfit hiding the whole body as part of a campaign to ban such clothes for Muslim women. The act aroused criticism from the government and Muslims. For about 20 minutes, Hanson spent in her place in the Senate, covered with a burka, reports Reuters.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications published on the portal of draft regulations regulation.gov.ru a new version of the bill on regulation of the Runet, which is a set of amendments to the law on communications and proposes to limit foreign ownership of so-called traffic exchange points, writes the Vedomosti newspaper.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced evidence of the supply of West countries by the Him weapons to militants to Syria. This was the official representative of the department Maria Zakharova on the air of the Vesti FM radio station. RBC recalls that earlier the Foreign Ministry of Syria announced that chemical ammunition made in the USA had been found in the capital of Damascus.

Residents of Orenburg turned to the regional reception of Russian President Vladimir Putin with a complaint about the work of the local perinatal center on Gagarin Avenue. In the appeal, parents spoke about three cases of the death of newborns and another seven incidents, as a result of which children received injuries or infections. Local officials have already reacted to the flaring scandal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday granted Russian citizenship to a two -time world champion and the bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics in cycling on the track Australian Shein Perkins. "To accept the Citizenship of the Russian Federation of Perkins Shane Alan, born on December 30, 1986 in Australia," the head of state says, which is published on the official portal of legal information.

The two-time world-skiing champion Evgenia Medvedev and the Olympic champion Rio de Janeiro for fencing on the RAPIRs Inna Deriglazova apply for the title of the best athlete of the year according to Women's Sports Foundation (WSF), according to the official WSF website . They are included in the list of 10 applicants for the title of the best athlete in individual sports. Voting for nominees will last until August 27.

The former head of the Rosneft Security Service Oleg Feoktistov was unable to return to work in the Federal Security Service (FSB) and is currently listed in reserve. Back in April of this year, the Russian media connected Feoktistov’s departure from Rosneft with Schumikha, who rose around his name after the loud arrest of the ex-head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev.

In Russia in July 2017 there was 5.4 million sq. m. built m of housing, which is 5.6% less than in July 2016 year, the Federal State Statistics Service reported on Thursday (Rosstat). For comparison, in June the decline in housing construction was 6.6%, in May - 2.5%, in April - 11.4%, in March - 9.0%, in February -17%, in January - 21.6%, Interfax recalls. In general, in January-July 2017, 33.4 million square meters were built in Russia. m housing, which is 10.4% less than a year earlier.

Kirill Martynov “There is a type of literature that truly enchants. These are the so-called books about self-development, a genre of teaching that is rhetorically unique in the modern secular world. After all, in the modern world, in fact, no one knows how to live correctly,” writes the columnist and HSE teacher on his Facebook page.

Investigators opened a criminal case on the negligence of Perm doctors who left a cotton turunda in the child’s head during the operation, the website of the RF IC reported on August 17. According to the investigation, in July 2016 in the Perm Regional Children's Clinical Hospital a boy from the village of Yurla (Perm Territory) due to a serious illness, a trepanation of the skull was carried out.