Photo: Allison Dinner/EPA Photo: Allison Dinner/EPA Canadian-American film actress Catherine O'Hara, who played Kevin McCallister's mother in the film Home Alone, has died. TMZ writes about this with reference to sources. The actress's manager confirmed this information in a conversation with Variety. The cause of O'Hara's death has not yet been announced. The actress was 71 years old. Catherine O'Hara was born in 1954 in Toronto, Canada.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, met in Moscow with the senator from Dagestan, businessman Suleiman Kerimov. He spoke about this in his Telegram channel. “Had a fruitful meeting with Brother, Senator Suleiman Kerimov in Moscow. I believe that the people of Chechnya and the people of Dagestan are brothers, just like us. I wished you success in all your affairs and endeavors,” Kadyrov wrote, attaching a joint photo with Kerimov.

Photo: social networks EU countries are discussing the possibility of introducing an entry ban for all Russian military personnel who fought against Ukraine. EU Foreign Service Representative Anita Hipper spoke about this. According to her, such an initiative was taken by one of the European Union countries. This idea received support from other states.

On the night of January 30, Russia fired drones at Ukraine and launched an Iskander missile. Firefighters eliminate the consequences of a Russian strike on a Kharkov suburb. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine for the Kharkov region On January 29, it became known that an “energy truce” had been concluded between Ukraine and Russia.

In Ufa, the management of an emergency clinical hospital is forcing doctors to register patients through the Max messenger. This was reported by the Medical Russia project with reference to the hospital administration. According to the publication, doctors were required to register an average of 17 patients per day through Max. The size of the plan depends on the number of bets: the higher the doctor's workload, the more entries he must make.

Staff there complained about the conditions in which patients were kept: cold, spoiled food and lack of medicine. Entrance to the territory of the boarding house in Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo region. Photo: Vil Ravilov / Sputnik / Imago Images / Scanpix / LETA In a psychoneurological boarding school in Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo region, nine patients died in January.

How Ukrainians and Russia’s ethnic minority groups are making common cause in opposing Russian imperialism Protesters hold up the Ukrainian flag at an anti-war demonstration outside the Russian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, 17 July 2022. Photo: EPA / Radek Pietruszka Though it may sound unlikely, cooperation between like-minded activists from Russia and Ukraine has a well-established precedent.

Evgenia Besfamilnaya was 88 years old. She was found thanks to neighbors View of Podol in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 5, 2026. Photo: Roman Pilipey / AFP / Scanpix / LETA No one knows exactly when Grandma Zhenya died. They only know why: from the cold. A Holocaust survivor from Kiev died from the Holodomor - in the historical center of the city, on Podol, in an apartment building on Pochaininskaya Street.

Trump's harsh immigration policies and other initiatives are splitting the Republican electorate. How will this affect the congressional elections? A demonstrator during the " Stop the Ice Terror " rally in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, January 20, 2026. Photo: Erik S. Lesser/EPA As the November 3 congressional midterm elections approach, the Donald Trump administration's policies are increasingly being viewed through an electoral lens.

Ukrainian rescuers deploy tents at a heating point in Kyiv, Ukraine, 25 January 2026, amid the Russian invasion. Photo: EPA/MAXYM MARUSENKO US President Donald Trump has said Vladimir Putin agreed to a temporary halt in Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, following a personal appeal made during a previously undisclosed phone call between the two leaders.

Incompetence, corruption or weakness due to international isolation? Illustration: “New Newspaper Europe” After journalists discovered a secret document from an agreement with Gazprom, which was mysteriously published on the Georgian government website, discussions about the country's energy security resumed in Tbilisi.

Photo: Konstantin Malofeev / Telegram Orthodox oligarch and head of the Tsargrad TV channel Konstantin Malofeev will teach a subject called “History of the Empire” at the Faculty of Political Science of Moscow State University for second-year students. Meduza’s source spoke about this. The publication also has a screenshot of the students’ schedule, from which it follows that “History of the Empire” will be taught by Associate Professor K.V. Malofeev.

US President Donald Trump signed a decree declaring a state of emergency in the country due to the actions of the Cuban authorities, which allows the introduction of trade duties against countries supplying oil to Havana. This is stated on the White House website. In particular, the decree introduces a new tariff system and the ability to impose trade duties on imports from any country that directly or indirectly supplies oil to Cuba.

Historian Rustam Alexander recalls Soviet basic military training lessons and compares them with a new initiative to teach schoolchildren how to build drones Schoolchildren at classes in primary military education at a school in Divnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, September 27, 2023. Photo: Ilya Naimushin / Sputnik / Imago Images / Scanpix / LETA Russian schoolchildren will be taught how to assemble and control drones during lessons on the basics of security and defense of the homeland (OSD).