Police in the state of Tennessee in the United States are looking for a criminal who opened fire on the passengers of one of the cars on the street of Memphis. As a result, two people were killed and four more were seriously injured. The suspect fled the crime scene in a gold-colored sedan, US News reports, citing city police. Shots were fired on the night of May 6 on Watkins Street in Memphis, near the local landmark Crosstown Concourse, an Art Deco building built in the 1920s.

In Moscow, at the “He is not our Tsar” rally, which took place on May 5 and was marked by mass arrests and beating of protesters by Cossacks with whips, a woman was detained while she was looking for her son in the cordon. He was a conscript soldier and had to stand in the ranks of the military ensuring order in the capital on the day of the protest.

In Novosibirsk, Orthodox activists and HIV descendants opposed a project aimed at preventing AIDS among adolescents. They published an open letter to representatives of the authorities with a request to check and, if possible, close the only organization in the region occupied by this problem.

Google's unmanned Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan was involved in a serious traffic accident in the US state of Arizona during testing as part of the Waymo self-driving taxi project, The Car Connection reported on May 6. The incident occurred in the city of Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix, at the end of last week, the publication clarifies. The minivan was reportedly hit by a Honda car that drove into oncoming traffic.

The two -time silver medalist of the Olympic Games, the two -time world champion and European Figure Skating Champion Evgenia Medvedev ceased to cooperate with the coach of Eteri Tutberidze, but will continue to play for the Russian Federation. Medvedeva moves to Canada, where he will now live and train. Earlier, information appeared in the media that Medvedev could change sports citizenship after leaving Tutberidze.

A member of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation from the Republic of Dagestan, businessman Suleiman Kerimov, who once again arrived in Russia with the permission of the Nice Prosecutor's Office, while under investigation in France, and hospitalized last Saturday due to heart problems, has already been discharged from the hospital. The senator was treated at the Vishnevsky hospital and returned home the night before.

Telegram channel "Miracles of Osint" , Commenting on the mass beats by the Cossacks of the Muscovites , who went to the action “He is not a king for us,” writes that there is nothing surprising in the participation of the so -called Cossacks in the detention of the protesters along with OMON employees. "The Moscow City Hall for three consecutive years for budget money taught" Cossacks "(sorry, these Cossacks - only in quotation marks) to disperse rallies.

The Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation (HRC) will send a request to law enforcement and other competent authorities with a request to explain why the Cossacks participated in the protection of public order at the protest on May 5. This was reported by Interfax on Monday, May 7, the head of the HRC Mikhail Fedotov.

The Central District Court of Tver sentenced 33-year-old A. Solntsev, who was found guilty of attacking a girl. The attacker hit a young schoolgirl on the head and stole her smartphone worth over 40 thousand rubles. The court sentenced the robber to four years in a special regime colony, the official website of the district court reports. As follows from the materials of the criminal case, on January 29, 2018, Solntsev was near house No. 13 on 1st Suvorova Street in Tver.

In the south of Stavropol in a high -rise building located on Shpakovskaya Street, an explosion thundered. One person died. Now the police and investigators are working at the scene of the explosion. "The explosion thundered between the eighth and ninth floors of a residential high -rise building in Stavropol. The circumstances are being clarified," an interfax told an operational headquarters at the emergency site. The supporting structures of the house were not injured.

China's largest social network, WeChat, which has nearly one billion users, blocked about 500 million posts that were rumors in 2017, according to a report published by the Chinese Academy of Telecommunications Research under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. "As of now, more than 800 third-party competent departments have joined the fight against rumors.

On Monday morning, world oil prices continued confident growth. So, WTI oil for the first time since November 2014 is traded at a level above $ 70 per barrel on the background, RIA Novosti reports. As of 07:59 in Moscow, the cost of July futures on the North Sea oil mixture of Brent brand grew by 1.16% - up to 75.74 dollars per barrel. The price of the June futures for oil of the WTI brand rose by 0.96% - to $ 70.39 per barrel. Oil valued and according to the results of the previous week.

On May 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a one-time payment of some categories of citizens of the Russian Federation in connection with the 73rd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The text of the document was published on the official portal of legal information on May 7. During May-June, veterans with Russian citizenship living in the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, will receive payment.

American actor Sylvester Stallone 10 years after the release of the last film about Rambo begins to shoot the fifth part of this franchise about the Vietnamese War veteran. The 71-year-old Stallone is already studying the script, and the shooting "Rambo V" approximately begins in September 2018. In the fifth part, the daughter of one of the friends of Rambo, who works on the farm, is abducted, and the main character goes to Mexico.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit the State Duma on May 8, where deputies of the lower house of parliament will consider the candidacy of Dmitry Medvedev, proposed by the head of state for the post of head of the new government. His press secretary Dmitry Peskov spoke about the president’s plans, RIA Novosti reports. According to the regulations, the prime minister's candidacy will be considered approved if a simple majority (at least 226) of State Duma deputies vote for it.