US citizen Paul Wylan, detained in Moscow at the end of December on suspicion of espionage, was dismissed from the US Army for theft. This is written by The Washington Post, citing military documents. According to the publication, Wylan began serving in the Marine Corps in 1994 and in the end he was awarded the title of headquarters. In addition, in 2004 and 2006, Wylan took part in the campaign in Iraq.

Russian citizen Mira Terada (until 2017 Oksana Vovk), detained in Finland in mid-December at the request of American authorities, will remain in custody for at least another two weeks. This was announced on January 2 by the Russian woman’s lawyer Johanna Karvinen. “I confirm that the court has decided to keep her in custody.

The administration of the city of Magnitogorsk and the Ministry of Emergencies in the Chelyabinsk region published on the official website a possible list of missing citizens who could be in house 164 on Karl Marx Avenue in Magnitogorsk at the time of its partial collapse . This list is constantly updated - those whose bodies were extracted from the rubble, as well as the names of people whose current location of which were confirmed, are deleted from it.

Over 300 thousand car owners in Germany joined the collective claim against the Volkswagen concern in connection with the so -called "diesel scandal." This was announced on Wednesday by the representative of the Federal Department of Justice Thomas Termsbach. As TASS recalls, a lawsuit against the company on November 1, 2018 filed the Federal Union of Consumer Protection Societies (VZBV) together with the general German car club.

Rescuers working at the scene of the explosion and collapse of part of the residential building on Karl Marx Street in Magnitogorsk, conducting the search for the bodies of the dead or survivors, found a cat under the rubble. Frozen and frightened, she miraculously survived and waited for help. The cat was taken by caring residents, wrapped it with a warm blanket and took it to the veterinarian.

American border guards used tear gas to stop the migrant attempt to break into the United States across the Mexican border. According to USA Today , the incident occurred in the first hours after the onset of 2019. About 150 people tried to overcome the border fence in the Tijuana area. In the official statement of the US Customs and Border Service, it is stated that on Tuesday morning, migrants tried to climb through fences from spiral barbed wire with mattresses and rubber rugs, TASS reports.

Russian parliamentarians do not yet plan to make changes to the calendar of the holiday weekends of 2019. This was announced on January 2 by the head of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy Valery Ryazansky. “No, until I heard this. There are no plans for such new festive dates,” TASS Ryazan quotes.

Six people died and 16 were injured in an accident on the Big Belt in Denmark on the Railway Bridge. The accident occurred on the bridge to the island of Fun, when the driver decided to sharply slow down as a result of the passenger train of a certain item from the cargo team that was walking towards. According to the Twitter of the local police, the accident occurred at 07:35 local time (09:35 Moscow time).

On Wednesday, January 2, a strike of collectors will begin in Germany, which can turn into a deficit of cash at ATMs. According to Deutsche Welle , the Verdi trade union was the initiator of the strike, for which 12 thousand sector employees related to the turnover of funds and securities can join the protest. The main requirement of the trade union is to increase the salaries of collectors by 250 euros per month.

The Chairman of the PRC Xi Jinping said that Taiwan’s independence is not an acceptable option for China and is at a dead end. With such a statement, he made at a meeting dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the "appeal to the Taiwanese compatriots." “Taiwan’s independence is contrary to the course of history and will focus,” said Xi Jinping (quote for TASS).

Former Soviet Baltic republics took all three first places in Europe in alcohol consumption. Among the EU member states are the highest proportion of alcohol costs in the overall structure of household expenses in Estonia. Estonian households on average spent 5.2% of their income in alcohol in 2017, which is the highest in the European Union.

The number of those who died as a result of the collapse of the entrance of a 10-story building in Magnitogorsk by 14:00 Moscow time increased to 20 people. And from the moment of the beginning of the search and rescue operation, 26 people have extracted from the rubble, six of which were alive. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, the bodies of a woman, two men and a child - girls aged about 3 years old were removed from under the last hour. Thus, among the dead there are two children.

In the capital of Russia, after warm New Year's days, cold weather is expected for Christmas. It will begin on the weekend of January 5 and 6, and on Monday, Christmas Day, daytime temperatures will drop to minus 20 degrees. As Evgeny Tishkovets, leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, told the Moscow 24 TV channel, by Saturday the thermometers will drop to -8...-13, and during the day the air will warm up to -5...-10. Snowfalls will become short-lived and begin to subside.

Residents of the three entrances of a high-rise building in Magnitogorsk, where on December 31, due to the gas explosion, the entrance collapsed , they were able to go for half an hour to their apartments for the necessary things. As reported on the website of the city administration, from 13:00 to 13:30 local time, residents of 5, 6, 8 entrances of the house 164 on Karl Marx Avenue were able to pick up things from the apartments.

The head of the US State Department, Mike Pompeo, said the United States insisted on the immediate return of the American Paul Wylan, who was suspected of espionage arrested in Moscow at the end of December. According to Reuters, Pompeo also noted that Washington intends to get Moscow's explanations about Wylan's arrest. “We hope that within a few hours the consulate’s employees will be allowed to him and will be able to find out more.