About a hundred refugees occupied one of the central squares of the Italian capital in protest against the infringement of their rights to free housing. Most of them are migrants who were expelled by police last week from an illegally occupied building where dozens of families have lived since 2013, according to local media. Some of the refugees a few days ago settled in front of one of the landmarks of Rome - Trajan's Column near Piazza Venezia.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon in his congratulation on the occasion of Kurban Bayram called for the study of modern sciences and recalled that it should not be carried away by food and drinks. And his son allowed to score cattle in Dushanbe.

The Al-Qaeda terrorist organization* plans to organize new terrorist attacks and sabotage acts in Europe. At the same time, railways can become the target of terrorists, according to the German Bild tabloid. According to the publication, the corresponding calls for actions for accomplices of terrorists were published in the English version of the propaganda magazine Inspire, with the help of which Islamists recruit new supporters on the Internet.

One or more hackers were able to gain access to the personal data of popular Instagram users using a vulnerability they discovered, writes Variety . “We recently discovered that one or more individuals gained illegal access to contact information of popular users, in particular email addresses and phone numbers, using a bug in the Instagram software interface,” Interfax quoted the service as saying.

The transfer of school lines due to religious holidays is inappropriate, but it is possible if there is a “full public consensus” on this issue, RIA Novosti told RIA Novosti on August 31 the chairman of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church and the Media of the Moscow Patriarchate Vladimir Legoyda. This issue is actively discussed in society and the press on the eve of the Day of Knowledge, which this year coincided with the Muslim holiday of Kurban-Bayram .

The decision to close the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in San Francisco, one of the departments of the embassy in Washington and one of the diplomatic facilities in New York, was personally adopted by US President Donald Trump. This was announced on Thursday in the White House, reports Reuters. “Yes, this decision was made by the president,” the official representative of the White House Sarah Sanders confirmed during the next briefing in Washington.

Capital investigators opened a criminal case against a guard of order suspected of kidnapping for extortion. The victim of the policeman and his accomplices was the merchant. Criminal punishment threatens the operative of the Operational-Writing Information Group of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Golovinsky District of Moscow, the official website of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department for Transport.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held telephone conversations with his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov, during which he warned the Russian Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation on new restrictions on the part of Washington, in particular, on the closure of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco. The conversation of the diplomats took place on the initiative of the American side.

The Polish authorities must convey to the international community that the country has suffered more than others as a result of World War II. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the country, Yaroslav Sellin, who is quoted on Thursday of the Polish press agency . "Poland should remind the world that we, as the state, were the largest victim of World War II, and demand compensation for damage from Germany," said Sellin.

On the fact of a large-scale fire in Rostov-on-Don on August 21, which destroyed a hundred residential buildings on Nizhny Novgorodskaya Street in the historical center of the city, a criminal case was opened under part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("intentional destruction or damage to property committed from hooligan motives, by arson and entailed by negligence the death of a person"), the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

Russian Maria Sharapova reached the third round of the US Open Championship in tennis , which is held these days in New York. On Wednesday, in the match of the second circle of a large helmet tournament, a 30-year-old tennis player who received a special invitation (Wild Card) from the organizers, in 2 hours 20 minutes with a score of 6: 7 (4: 7), 6: 4, 6: 1 defeated Hungarian Timaia Babos. “Of course, I have certain expectations, because I used to reach the decisive stages and won.

British Prime Minister Teresa May confirmed that she did not plan to leave his post and intends to remain the head of government after the country's exit from the European Union. She stated this on Thursday during her visit to Japan. For several days, the British media have been circulating rumors that she can leave the party leader before the next election. May refutes this. “I am not the person who easily throws the begun,” Reuters quotes her. “Yes, I’m here for a long time.

In the Indian city of Mumbai, an emergency occurred - a residential building was hit, located in the Dongri area in the south of the city, there are dead and wounded. Data on the number of victims vary. According to the latest data, the number of dead reached 15 people, another 12 were injured, reports Hindustan Times . Earlier, the seven dead were reported, and before that - about three. Five victims are in the hospital in critical condition, they recorded numerous injuries and fractures.

The United States, Japan and South Korea conducted military exercises against the backdrop of an aggravation of the situation on the Korean peninsula in connection with the last missile launch of the DPRK. On Thursday, August 31, joint maneuvers of the air defense forces of Japan and the US Air Force took place, as well as training flights of the United States and South Korea, Reuters reported. The exercises took place in the area of ​​the island of Kyusu in southern Japan.

Boris Titov, the business ombudsman and the leader of the growth party said that the party in the 2018 presidential election would not support an opposition candidate calling for street protests, and allowed the support of Vladimir Putin, whom two party members were called to leave. This, according to RBC , he said on a party’s press trip on Thursday, August 31. "We do not need youth on the streets who will smash the windows," Titov said.