The United States prepared an additional list of goods imported from China in the amount of $ 200 billion to introduce duties in the amount of 10%. The list is published on the website of the US trade representative office.

US President Donald Trump during an official visit to Belgium collapsed with a sharp criticism of Germany due to its support for the construction of the North Stream 2 gas pipeline, Reuters said. As Trump said on Wednesday, July 11, at a working breakfast with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg before the alliance summit in Brussels, it is “very sad” that Germany on a deal with the Russian Federation will pay “billions and billions” of dollars for gas, Bloomberg reports.

Doctors in St. Petersburg had to perform an emergency operation for appendicitis on the seven-year-old daughter of the President of the International Football Federation (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, Fontanka reported on July 11. According to the publication, Infantino’s wife and their youngest daughter arrived in the northern capital last week, and on July 8 the girl experienced severe abdominal pain. The child was urgently taken to the Children's Clinical Hospital of the St.

The Nizhnyaya Maslovka station under construction on the Big Circle Metro Line will be decorated with Sayan marble and transparent stained glass windows. Interfax reports this with reference to the press service of Mosmetrostroy. According to the general director of Mosmetrostroy, Sergei Zhukov, the track walls will not be blocked from passengers: the cast-iron tubes will be cleaned and painted.

The midfielder of St. Petersburg Zenit Yuri Zhirkov announced the end of his career in the Russian national football team. The 34-year-old veteran has played for the national team since 2005 and held 87 matches in its composition. In 2008, he became a bronze medalist in the European Championship. “There is no longer enough strength to play at this level. The last injury is another hint. There is no time left for the family, children. Consider the second summer without vacation.

In Japan, the number of dead due to heavy rains and floods and landslides caused by them continues to grow. The Kyodo agency reports 176 victims, but the Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers Yoshihide Suga at a press conference on Wednesday, July 11, in Tokyo specified that 179 people were killed. The location of more than 50 people has not been established.

The scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, Roman Vilfand, said that noticeable warming is expected in the Moscow region by the weekend. Interfax reports this. “When will real summer return to Moscow? It hasn’t gone away, the temperature is close to normal, even a little higher. And from tomorrow the temperature will be two degrees higher than normal: during the day up to 25-27 degrees, at night 15-18 degrees,” Vilfand said .

The police detained the former girl of the State Duma deputy Sergei Zhigarev, who was beaten in Moscow. At the moment, she is in the police department and is testing, Izvestia reports. According to the media, the girl is checked for involvement in the beating of the deputy and the theft of values ​​from his apartments.

The Greece government decided to send two Russian diplomats and ban the entrance to the country with two more. Athens accuse the Russians of trying to intervene in the internal affairs of the country and committing illegal actions against the national security of Greece, the newspaper Kathimerini reports. According to the sources of the publication, Russian diplomats tried to get some information, as well as bribe Greek officials, but failed.

The deputies of the uninstall proposed to punish Russians up to a year of imprisonment for a “malicious refusal” to refute or delete “illegal information” from the network, that is, the data recognized by the court defamed with honor and dignity, extremist or harmful to children. It is proposed to deprive of freedom those who, before this, was fined twice a year for refusing to execute the relevant decisions of the court.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) is celebrating almost 100 percent attendance at the 2018 World Cup matches in Russia, FIFA's director of competitions and events, Colin Smith, said on Wednesday in Moscow at the international Economics of Football conference. “Attendance was 98%, all stadiums are full, and this will continue until the end of the competition. The bulk of the fans were, of course, Russians; among foreigners, fans from the USA, Germany and Brazil are in the lead.

More than 200 polling stations are planned to be organized outside of Moscow for the upcoming elections of the capital's mayor. This was announced by the Chairman of the Moscow City Election Commission (MGEC) Valentin Gorbunov. The largest number of plots will appear in the Moscow region - 183. In the Kaluga region there will be 16, in the Vladimir and Tula regions - five each, Interfax reports.

Skeletal human remains with traces of violent death were discovered in the Alexander Pushkin Park, on the territory of the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg. According to the preliminary version, the bones belong to Jews executed during the Second World War. So far, the remains of only two people have been found, Ekho Moskvy reports, citing local historian Vitaly Novitsky. On one of the skulls the temple was pierced, as if hit by a butt, and on the back of the head there was a bullet mark.

The United States authorities are not going to subject the central elements of their military-political strategy to normalize the situation in Afghanistan to global revision. This was announced by TASS by the official representative of the National Security Council (SNB) of the White House, whose surname is not called. Earlier, Reuters reported the preparation of the US administration of a new revision of a policy aimed at resolving in Afghanistan.

US President Donald Trump, who arrived at NATO summit in Brussels, demanded that all the alliance countries immediately bring his defense expenses to 2% of GDP. “What is the use of NATO, if Germany pays Russian billions of dollars for gas and energy? Why did only five of 29 countries fulfill its obligations? The USA pays for protecting Europe, and then lose billions for trade . [All NATO members] must pay 2% of GDP immediately, and not by 2025 [year],” he wrote on his Twitter .