US President Donald Trump sent the promised check for 25 thousand dollars to the family of a soldier who died in Afghanistan after the media accused him of breaking his word. The White House spokesman Lindsay Walters said that Trump wrote a check to the family of the soldier who died in June, reports Reuters. As the Washington Post recalls, Donald Trump promised the family a donation of 25 thousand dollars when he talked with the shocked loss of Sergeant Dilon Boldridge.

Alexander Golts “Once a year, the head of the country (you can simply say the king) meets with eminent foreigners, to whom he tells about his special world, or more precisely, about his special perception of the world around him. For example, about the fact that Russia is a bear protecting its taiga.

The metropolitan police detained three men suspected of robbery on foreigners. Hundreds of thousands of dollars became the prey criminals, which the PRC citizens intended to put in the bank. The supposed robbers were a 33-year-old resident of the Moscow Region, a 24-year-old resident of the Lipetsk region and a 45-year-old Muscovite, reports Moscow with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

Alfa-Bank demanded from the structures controlled by the offshore Radamant Financial AG the ex-owner of the Yugra bank, Alexei Khotin, to repay the debt ahead of schedule. The bank filed a notice of early repayment of debt, and also appealed to the Meshchansky District Court and the Arbitration Court of Moscow, RBC reports.

The situation with the temporary disappearance of access to the doctoral dissertation of the head of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky and to the abstract of his dissertation, as well as the emergence of two different lists of opponents to defend the dissertation raised a logical question whether the minister tried to hide in this way that his dissertation did not go through the protection procedure at all.

In the court of Los Angeles (California, USA), they consider the criminal case of the brutal murder of a young child. A stepfather of the victim is suspected of this crime. He subjected the boy to sophisticated torture, as he considered him a homosexual. Criminal punishment threatens the 32-year-old security officer Izauro Agirre. Also charges were also brought by the mother of the deceased eight -year -old Gabriel Fernandez - Pirle Fernandez, KTLA reports.

As part of the reform of the traffic law in Finland, all road signs will be updated, and the images of people on them will be replaced by anonymous, genderless figures, reports Fontanka.fi . However, behind this is not a desire for gender neutrality, but a purely practical goal - to make the signs clearer and more noticeable, the publication notes.

Ford Sollers Holding LLC, which is the official representative of the American automaker Ford on the Russian market, is recalling 297 Ford Mondeo sedans to fix problems, Rosstandart reports. This campaign includes models with automatic shutdown of the electronic parking brake, sold in Russia from January to September 2017. The reason for the recall is a defect in the incomplete release of the rear brakes when the vehicle starts to move.

A tourist from Russia drowned during the bathing near the island of Phuket in Thailand, TASS reports with reference to the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Thailand. The tragedy occurred on October 18 on the beach of Karon. When the beach workers, along with the representatives of the Royal Navy on the water, took a 53-year-old Russian from the water, he was in an unconscious state.

Dmitry Gudkov "About the nomination of Ksenia Sobchak. First. Let 100 flowers bloom. I am for the admission of all candidates - Navalny, Sobchak, Yavlinsky. Does Ksenia have the right to run? Has. If her audience also learns that “Putin is a thief,” so much the better. The whole question is whether Ksenia wants to say this or portray “constructive opposition”. I’m sure she understands this,” writes politician Dmitry Gudkov on Facebook . "Second.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk found the former governor of the Novosibirsk region Vasily Yurchenko guilty of exceeding official powers when selling a land plot in the center of Novosibirsk, TASS reports. The verdict on Thursday, October 19, reads Judge Alla cheerful. The state prosecutor asked the court to say Yurchenko to the four years of the colony and to recover 14 million rubles of disgusting income from him.

The Norwegian company Statoil and the Arab Masdar on Wednesday, October 18, launched the world's first floating power plant, called Hywind, off the coast of Scottish Aberdeenshire. A message on the project's website states that the 30-megawatt station has begun generating electricity 25 km offshore and supplying power to the city of Peterhead. In total, the floating station should meet the needs of 20 thousand households.

In the Canadian province of Quebec, a law has been adopted, which prohibits hiding a face in public places. It is reported by Globe and Mail . The law does not determine the specific types of clothing that fall under the ban, although it is obvious that it is primarily about the Muslim burns and Nikaba, completely or partially covering the face. The law also does not exclude cases when a person is closed, for example, a bandana or even dark glasses.

The prosecutor's office of the Kemerovo region finds out the circumstances of an injury by a resident of Novokuznetsk, who stuck a nail into his temple in the courtroom of the Kuibyshevsky district and broke his head. This happened after he was found guilty of the murder of the homeless, Interfax reports. As explained in the prosecutor's office, a man born in 1972, who was previously repeatedly convicted, was sentenced in early October.

The authorities of China called the “prejudices” of the US charges against Beijing that the PRC is allegedly trying to change the existing world order. The corresponding statement was made by the official representative of the PRC of the PRC Lu Kan, reports CNN . "China decisively supports the international order based on the principles of the UN and strives to develop long -term healthy and stable relations with the United States," a representative of the ministry said on October 19.