Seven million people in Venezuela need humanitarian support, including 1.9 million - food assistance. As TASS reports, on Friday, answering the questions of journalists at a briefing in Geneva, the official representative of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (VSGV) Jens Lark. "According to the UN estimates, seven million people in Venezuela are in the need for humanitarian assistance.

More than 10 million residents of North Korea (approximately 40% of the country's population) are in a situation that is characterized by the UN as "lack of food security," TASS reports. As the cause of mass hunger, the functionaries of the international organization call natural disasters and flaws.

Igor Yakovenko “Today, May 3 is the World Freedom Day . On this day 28 years ago, African independent media in the capital of Namibia the city of Wundhuk signed a declaration in which the governments of all states called for the freedom of the press and its democratic character. The government, of course, could not refuse the African independent media and began to provide,” writes Columonist “Daily Journal” .

Brazil's mint stopped printing Venezuelan Bolivars, TASS reports. As the Brazilian media found out, until recently, an agreement with an international company, in which Venezuelan currency was printed on Brazilian machines, expired in March this year, and the new was not concluded.

In the suburbs, a participant in the historical reconstruction of the battle of the Great Patriotic War accidentally shot himself from hunting weapons, which is why he died, Interfax reports. "On the eve of the Belopesotsky St.

The gold reserves of the Russian Federation are growing with a record pace. This is stated in the report of World Gold Council (WGC, World Gold Council). In the first quarter of 2019, the Bank of Russia purchased 55.3 tons of gold and brought the volume of reserves to 2168.3 tons. The organization noted that such a trend is associated with the desire of Russia to reduce dependence on the US dollar in case of introducing new sanctions, TASS reports.

Amnesty International International Human Rights Affairs recognized as prisoners of the conscience of all participants in the peace demonstrations held on the festive day on May 1 detained in Russia. This is stated on the organization’s website . "All participants in the peaceful demonstrations on May 1, deprived of freedom, including the organizers of the St.

At least three people died in India due to the powerful Cyclone "Fani" , which hit on Friday the eastern state of Odisha. The wind is uprooted by the trees, the masts of power lines are shutting. Before the element of the element, over one million people were evacuated in one. Large territories in the city of Puri and other settlements are flooded with water. Currently, cyclone moves along the coast of Hindustan to the north towards the state of West Bengal, NDTV reports.

The leader of the Rock Group "Leningrad" and a member of the Public Council at the State Duma Committee, Sergey Shnurov, spoke out on his Instagram page about the events in Shiesa Arkhangelsk region, where the population protested against the construction of a garbage training ground for Moscow waste. On April 30, according to the reporting activists, reinforcements from OMON of the Russian Guard arrived there, according to the reporting activists. "Jealous people, to hell with these cottages!

Belarusian border guards detained a citizen of Russia suspected of drug smuggling. In a car of a Russian who entered the May holidays to Belarus and stopped at the Kotlovka checkpoint, they found several centners of hashish.

The American actor of English descent Peter Meyhe, who played the role of Chubacki in the film Steel Wars, died in the 75th year of his life. About this, as TASS reports, on Thursday his family on Twitter. "The family of Peter Meyheu with great love and sadness reports that Peter passed away. He left us on April 30, 2019 surrounded by a family in his house in the north of Texas," the statement of relatives who chose not to disclose the causes of the death of the artist said.

FSB police officers and employees detained a man suspected of vandalism and desecrate the monument to Soviet tankers in Saratov. The attacker painted the corps of the tank with red paint from the Great Patriotic War. According to the detainee, the authorities painted the tank in the wrong color, and this expressed disrespect for the symbols of victory.

The State Duma plans to spend 17 million 425 thousand rubles on the study of public opinion about their work and adopted during the spring session of 2019 by parliamentarians of laws, Interfax reports with reference to these public procurement systems. As follows from the conditions of the competition, the contractor will have to conduct a series of all -Russian telephone surveys, a series of interviews with representatives of target groups.

The Investigative Committee charged a resident of Bashkiria of the murder of a sister. This was reported to the TASS agency in the Investigative Department of the IC of the Russian Federation for Bashkiria, without naming the name of the detainee. Law enforcement agencies later clarified that we are talking about Ainura Abdulnasyrov, the creator of the application for learning Lingualeo languages.

Currently, thousands of Cuban and hundreds of Russian agents have taken control of Venezuela’s security bodies, control the directions of the country's government policy, said US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. His words are given by Interfax . “We can hear statements that we should not allow (foreign) invasion of Venezuela, but it has already happened. Cubans invaded there some time ago, now Russians followed.