Israel decided to leave the UN Agency on Education, Science and Culture with the United States, BBC reports. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prepare for the process of leaving the organization simultaneously with the United States, Newsru Israel reports. The Israeli prime minister praised US President Donald Trump for the "bold and highly moraine decision" to leave the organization that turned into the "absurd theater".

The Council of the Duma on Thursday decided to postpone the trip of the delegation of deputies to the United States due to the fact that Russian flags were removed at San Francisco and Washington's diplomatic departments, TASS reports with reference to the State Duma apparatus. This decision will be valid until the corresponding explanations and apologies follow the American side, the State Duma apparatus said.

Taiwan's Anti-Monopoly Commission has fined American chipmaker Qualcomm a record $773 million for violations of the law, Bloomberg reports. According to the regulator's findings, Qualcomm committed violations for at least seven years and abused its dominant position in CDMA, WCDMA and LTE by refusing to license important technologies to companies that did not accept its terms. During this time, Qualcomm received $13.2 billion in licensing fees from Taiwanese companies.

“Regarding Ampelonsky and Co. Firstly, the “Roskomnadzor” people are being shaken for some kind of fraud (it’s difficult to understand what the point is), and not for what is visible to the naked eye. And the naked eye is visible to ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITY. Not only the defendants, but also of the entire structure. Is censorship prohibited in the Russian Federation according to the Constitution? That’s all,” the publicist writes on his Facebook page.

The Curonian Spit National Park is trying to evict the mayor of Neringa, who has been living there since 1997, from his departmental apartment. The dispute between officials has been going on for ten years, during which Social Democrat Darius Jasaitis has desperately resisted the eviction. As a result, the departmental housing was put up for sale so that the new owner would deal with the occupier of the premises. Apartment with an area of ​​23.13 sq.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has received complaints about prices for the iPhone 8 in Russia and will conduct a review of pricing for new Apple smartphones, RIA Novosti reports. “There are complaints, an investigation will be carried out on this matter. Whether a new case can be opened is too early to say,” said a representative of the FAS press service. As Kommersant reminds, sales of the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus began in Russia on September 29.

“Almost every day I come across various articles, posts and comments dedicated to Putin’s upcoming FOURTH TERM. In my opinion, the very use of this phrase is an unacceptable concession to the Kremlin’s thimblemakers,” writes the political scientist and publicist on Facebook .

Former Minister of Finance, and now the head of the Center for Strategic Development (CSR), Alexei Kudrin, said Western sanctions are still harmful to the Russian economy. In particular, according to him, direct foreign investments in the Russian Federation in recent years, including the period of administration of sanctions, have significantly decreased - seven times. “We have direct foreign investments before the crisis of 2009 and immediately after it reached $ 70 billion a year.

In the Sugomak cave near the city of Kyshtym, the Chelyabinsk region, many icons and other church attributes were discovered on October 10. Rescuers conducted an operation to extract them from the dungeon, but in the daylight it turned out that they did not represent great value.

The head of the FSB department for the Orenburg region, Viktor Gavrilov, at a meeting of the Coordinating Council to ensure the law and order, said that the shares of the "non -Istemic main oppositionist" are preparing "" promotions of direct impact ". Gavrilov’s words brought the online publication Proopen.ru, but later deleted them from the article , although the original version of the article was preserved in the Google cache . The publication "Mediazon" drew attention to this circumstance.

In the Irkutsk region, the former director of the village of Balukhar of the Cheremkhovsky district Ksenia Antipin , who refused to agitate for a candidate from United Russia, was beaten, Irxib reports. She, together with her father, was driving in a car when she was cut by a silver Land Rover. A man came out of him, who first hit his father with Antipina, and then attacked her.

The Commission of the State Duma on Deputy Ethics will indicate to the deputy Vitaly Milonov to the inadmissibility of violation of the rules of deputy ethics on the basis of a complaint of activist Alexei Timoshenko, who accused the deputy of the lower house of the parliament of inciting hatred. In July, Tymoshenko published a petition on Change.org, in which he demanded that Milonov indicate the inadmissibility of his behavior.

The main official print publication of China, the newspaper Zhanmin Zhibao, called on party officials “not to pray to God and worship the Buddha,” since communism is atheism, and superstitions underlie abuse of many corrupt officials.

Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev again publicly accused the authorities of neighboring Kazakhstan of interfering with the internal affairs of the republic on the eve of the presidential election.

Rostelecom President Mikhail Oseevsky said that the company discussed with the Moscow government the possibility of introducing a biometric identification system to pay for travel on public transport, writes RBC . He spoke about this at the “Looking into the Digital Future” conference taking place in Sochi. As Oseevsky explained, we are talking about a facial recognition system that automatically deducts fares from passengers, relieving them of the need to use tickets and go through turnstiles.