India's Supreme Court on January 3 ordered the recovery of miners who have remained cut off from the outside world for a third week in a mine in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, or their bodies, by any means necessary. “We are not satisfied with the progress of the rescue operation,” TASS quotes a statement from the Supreme Court judges. “Regardless of whether they (the miners) are all dead, or some are alive and some are dead, or all of them are alive, they should be caught.

In Greece, a scandal is flared up, caused by a walk in the center of Athens of one of the leaders of the leftist terrorist group "November 17" Dimitris Kufodinas, released from prison home for the New Year holidays, reports TASS. In 2003, Kufodinas was sentenced to 11 lifelong terms, he was serving a sentence in a prison of the city of hair, the newspaper “Proto Topic” writes on Thursday.

The United States receive billions of dollars thanks to the trade duties that the Washington administration introduced last year in relation to products from China and other countries. About this, as TASS reports, on Thursday the US President Donald Trump on Twitter said. “The US Treasury receives many billions of dollars thanks to the duties that we charge from China and other countries that have not treated us fairly,” the head of the American administration wrote.

In Perm against the activist of the local headquarters of Navalny Alexander Shabarchin and two more people were opened a criminal case due to installation with a doll with Putin's face, the channel said. Law enforcement officers conducted searches in the apartment of Shabarchin. According to Ugov, the activist seized all the equipment.

Whitbread PLC has closed the Coca-Cola transaction for the COSTA coffee enterprise network. According to Whitbread, the transaction amount amounted to 3.7 billion pounds. The Coca-Cola report on this purchase indicates the amount of $ 4.9 billion, Interfax reports. The transaction was closed after receiving permits from regulators in the European Union and China, Coca-Cola said.

The former Minister of Finance of the Government of the Moscow Region Alexei Kuznetsov, accused of fraud, embezzlement and other crimes, was extradited from France to Russia, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Thursday. The criminal case against him will be sent to the court to complete the procedural actions, Interfax reports.

Another victim of a gas explosion in a residential building in Magnitogorsk is extracted from the rubble, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies. “The body of the 38th deceased is extracted, this is a woman,” the department said. At the moment, the body of one woman remains unidentified.

The Disciplinary Commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to dismiss the deputy chief of the first year of the Karaganda Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tastaybekov for the posting on the Internet of the video, in which he called his colleagues the "gang" and "Brothers".

The Chinese spacecraft "Chan-4" (Chang'e-4) was the first in the world to make a successful landing on the back of the moon, not visible from the ground, and already sent the first pictures from there. According to the Chinese National Space Directorate (CNSA), the Automatic Interplanetary Station (AMS) "Chan-4", consisting of a landing module and a lunar rover, shattered on the "dark" side of the Earth’s natural satellite on January 3, 2019 at 10:26 PM (05:26 Moscow time).

No signs that the explosion in a residential building in Magnitogorsk on December 31, which claimed dozens of human lives, and the explosion of the car on January 1 are interconnected, said the mayor of the city Sergey Berdnikov on Thursday. “Once again, I want to say that there are no facts indicating any confirmation that are described on the Internet today,” TASS quotes him. “Emergencies are regularly taking place, but this is the situation that our city has occurred for the first time.

"Two events occurred in Magnitogorsk at once: first a residential building exploded, and then a minibus caught fire. In both cases, the official version was gas (there were gas cylinders in the Gazelle). The coincidence is rare, but not incredible. However, the conspiracy thespyrologists are already looking for a hexogen and write about terrorist attacks. Facebook . “Terrorism is one of the most overated threats.

The new Brazilian government intends to dismiss high -ranking civil servants who adhere to left -wing views, said the head of the Presidential Civil Chancellery, Onyx Lorenzoni to reporters on January 3. “There is no point in remaining, quoting him TASS.“ We have enough courage to do what the government, which left December 31, has not decided, that is, from the very beginning to conduct a “general cleaning”.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said that the initiators of the mass unrest that has swept across the country in the past few weeks are receiving financial support from abroad. He said this on January 3 in Khartoum during a speech on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the independence of this African state.

The former actual head of the DPRK Embassy in Rome Cho Song Gil asked for political asylum in Italy, South Korean media reported on January 3. In particular, according to the newspaper Chosun Ilbo , that 48-year-old Cho Song Gil is trying to get a political investment and has been under the protection of the Italian authorities since the beginning of December 2018. Officially, this information has not yet been confirmed.