At least 17 people died in Karakas due to the explosion of a grenade with tear gas in a nightclub, said the Minister of Internal Affairs of Venezuela Nestor Revenge. Eight victims of the tragedy were younger than 18 years. At the Los Cotorros club on the night of June 16 there were about 500 people, reports Reuters. The explosion rang out at 3 hours during the conflict between several people. This caused a crush at the doorway, the minister said.

The actions of the two F-15 fighters of the Japanese Air Force on Saturday morning almost provoked a serious incident at the airport of the city of Nakha on the island of Okinawa, where they almost encountered a passenger aircraft. About this, as TASS reports, today was reported by the local agency Kyodo. As noted, the pilots of combat vehicles did not hear the order of the dispatcher, who forbade them to cut into the runway.

Former Brazilian President Luis Inasiu Lula da Silva, sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of corruption and laundering, will comment on the matches of the World Cup on the local Rede TV channel, the Marca newspaper said. It was not possible to organize commenting on matches live on the air, and therefore the ex-president will record his impressions of matches and send them to the editor, after which they will be read on the air of the review program Papo Com Ze Trajano.

General manager of the NHL club St. Louis Doug Armstrong said that team representatives spoke with the agent of Russian forward Ilya Kovalchuk and asked him to consider the Blues. Kovalchuk previously announced that he was leaving SKA St. Petersburg and would return to the NHL next season. A Russian cannot sign a contract until July 1, but before this date he can agree on its terms.

Pensions for non -working pensioners, after raising the retirement age, will amount to about 12 thousand rubles after all the increase. Such a statement was made by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova at a meeting of the Russian tripartite commission to regulate social and labor relations (RTK) on Saturday.

The Russian embassy in London demanded that the UK authorities explain the incoming information about unmotivated interrogations of Russians, but in response, it received a “unsubscription” consisting of three proposals. This is stated in the statement on the website of the diplomatic mission.

In April, Russia almost doubled its investments in American securities - by $ 47.5 billion to 48.7 billion. This, as RIA Novosti notes, said in a statement on the website of the US Department of Finance. Thus, in the ranking of bond holders, Russia sank from the 16th line to the 22nd. The leader still remains China, which owns treasury papers for 1.18 trillion dollars. On the second line is Japan (1.03 trillion dollars).

Russia and Saudi Arabia will jointly advocate the unlimited extension of the OPEC+ agreement at a meeting with other representatives of the alliance, which will be held in Vienna next week, Minister of Energy Alexander Novak told reporters. According to him, the corresponding decision was made during the recent meeting of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with the Crown Prince Muhammad Ben Salman in Moscow.

A bust of military pilot Roman Filipov, who died in Syria, was unveiled on Friday, June 15, in the city of Voronezh. The monument was erected near school N85, where Filipov studied, RIA Novosti reports. The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Federation Council, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Youth Army members, Suvorov cadets, cadets of the Air Force Academy, teachers and students of School No. 85, the pilot’s relatives and ordinary Voronezh residents.

The French national team played the Australian team with a score of 2: 1 in the match of the first round of the group stage at the World Cup in Russia. - World Cup 2018: Schedule and results of matches The meeting of group C took place on Saturday in Kazan. As part of the winners, the balls were scored by Antoine Griezmann (58 ', from a penalty), recognized as the best player of the match, and Paul Pogba (81').

The Council of the Swedish Eskilstuna voted for the introduction of a ban on begging - the initiative, which some political forces of the country have been trying in vain at the national level for several years. Now anyone who wants to engage in passive money collecting on city streets and squares will have to receive an appropriate police license, The Local reports.

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen demanded an explanation from Berlin in connection with the journalistic investigation of Profil and Der Standard on the monitoring of German intelligence for politicians, international organizations and some companies in a neighboring state. “This should not happen between two friendly countries,” the Austria Sebastian Kurtz, who, together with the president, spoke at a press conference, quotes the Reuters.

The Russians, dissatisfied with the plans of the government to raise the retirement age , began to go out for protest - as they feared in the Kremlin . The first such rally was held in Novosibirsk, similar shares are being prepared in Omsk, Syktyvkar, Saratov and other cities. A rally in Novosibirsk gathered about 300 people.

A group of fans from Switzerland, who went to Rostov-on-Don in the match of the World Cup, was a little on the advanced military confrontation in the Donbass, the journalist and volunteer Anna Dombrovskaya said. She posted on Facebook a photo with careless foreigners who entered the DPR. "The fans went to the Brazilian match-Switzerland in Rostov-on-Don, and the navigator paved their way through the occupied Donetsk.

Russian actor Sergei Bezrukov and his group “Godfather” released a video for the song “Break Through,” which the actor himself called “a parting message for our team” at the World Cup. The song is a fast rock composition, in which, in addition to the usual guitars and drums, bagpipes sound.