The Greek government will soon send Germany’s verbal note to start negotiations on the procedure for paying reparations for damage caused to the country in the First and Second World Wars. This was stated at a meeting of the parliament, Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras, whose words are quoted by TASS.

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems launched the Cygnus NG-11 cargo spacecraft, which should deliver to the crew, materials for experiments and flying Astrobee robots, to the international space station. Also, the ship will be used to withdraw microsnetics to orbit. The start of the Antares 230 launch vehicle with a space truck on board occurred on April 17 at 23 hours 46 minutes from the Wallops cosmodrome in the American state of Virginia.

The Parisian authorities banned the protest of the “Yellow vests” movement on the island of Sith in the area of ​​the Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God on April 20. The prefecture of the metropolitan police reported this on Thursday in her Twitter microblog . "After a fire in the Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God, the Paris Police Prefecture issued a decree that establishes a perimeter of security, which involves a ban on the movement of people and vehicles," the report said.

The English football clubs "Tottenham" and "Liverpool" on the eve of issuing trips to the semifinals of the Champions League, overcoming the sum of two -match confrontations English "Manchester City" and Portuguese Porto, respectively. “Tottenham” in the response match of the quarterfinals lost “City” with a score of 3: 4, but went to the next stage of the tournament thanks to a larger number of heads on the road. The first meeting in London ended with the victory of the hosts 1: 0.

The DPRK chairman Kim Jong-un, at the invitation of President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin will visit Russia in the second half of April, the Kremlin press service informs . This will be the first meeting of the current leaders of the two countries. On April 15, Yonhap reported that the summit would be presumed in the Far East, where Putin will go on April 24.

The Levada Center fully mastered the Kremlin science of Flud and spinaling, ”writes a publicist and political scientist in Facebook due to continuing discussions about the sensational survey, who recorded the record level of Stalin's approval in Russia.

“Somewhere an hour, the president sits with public transport behind a red wall and reads printed papers,” writes Satyric Evgeny Shestakov on his Facebook page. “Of all the people I see, only the old people in the subway read the last sacred duty to humanity - to solve more crosswords before the breathing is replaced. The same president awarded 60 Rosneft employees yesterday. He shook his hands to the wounded, touched the company’s battle banner, and honored the memory of the Sevsha.

The traffic police released data on the state of the Russian fleet at the end of 2018, for the first time included in the report on the information about the ecological class of registered vehicles. According to Kommersant , citing data from the departments, the total number of vehicles over the year increased by 765 thousand (from 59.7 million to 60.5 million). In Moscow, this indicator decreased by 5% (to 4.69 million), in the Moscow region increased by 2.7% (to 3.32 million).

The opposition candidate and former Army General Prabovo Subianto declared himself the president of Indonesia until 2024. He made such a statement on Thursday at a meeting with his supporters in Jakarta, writes Jakarta Globe . “I and Sandiag Uno (candidate for the post of vice president. - Note TASS ) We inform you that they became the leaders of the state for the period from 2019 to 2024,” said Subianto, whose words quoted TASS.

The desire to impose patriotism with the help of cinema costs the state dearly: despite all the protectionist measures, loud statements and financing of almost all “timely” paintings, only a tenth of “commercial” films with state support pays off in the rental. This was reported by the publication "Project" .

The new owner of the British team "Williams", joining the prestigious championship in Formula 1, can be the Russian businessman of Belarusian origin Dmitry Mazepin. According to the Motosport portal, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Uralhim and the main beneficiary of Uralkalia have already held appropriate negotiations with representatives of Williams during the Chinese Grand Prix, which took place on April 12-14 in Shanghai.

A criminal case has been instituted in the Novosibirsk region on the disclosure of information about the presence of an intake of HIV infection in the adopted child, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

In New York, a man was detained who was trying to get to St. Patrick's Cathedral in two gasoline cans, the city police told on their Twitter page. Around 19:55 (02:55 a.m. Thursday MSC), the man entered the Cathedral of St. Patrick on Manhattan with cans and liquid for roser, after which he was detained by the protection of the cathedral. There are no victims during the incident.

“In recent years, the middle class has been reduced in Russia-Sberbank announced this world today. That is, people who could postpone something for a rainy day, somewhere to go and sometimes eat at home is less. What is called-is it really?!” - A politician writes on his Facebook page.

The acting US Minister of Defense Patrick Shanakhan confirmed that on April 17, the DPRK tested weapons . “There was a test,” TASS quotes the words and. The head of the Pentagon. “I do not want to go into the details of our intelligence, I will only say that it was not a ballistic missile.” Earlier, the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea reported that the DPRK leader Kim Jong -un was present on the test launch of a new type of tactical guided weapon.