Ghana Vice President John Dramani Maham took a president a few hours after the previous head of state Evans Atta Mills died, Reuters reports on Wednesday . Mahama, according to the basic law of the country, will manage Gana before the expiration of the powers of its predecessor, the term of which ends in December of this year. Mills died on Tuesday at the age of 68 in the capital of the country of the country. What caused the president’s death is still unknown.

The Main Directorate of Economic Security and Combating of Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began to investigate the activities of transport companies, from which the Russian Post orders aircraft production of correspondence. The newspaper Kommersant writes about this today. The police believe that the contracting companies used vehicles to deliver parcels and letters, and accounted for air transportation.

Consumer prices for gasoline for January-June this year increased on average with respect to the same period last year by 9.7 percent, Rosstat said on Wednesday. At the same time, the A-76 brand (AI-80) and diesel fuel rose most in the price-they became more than 11 percent more expensive. At the same time, the manufacturers price index for the specified period decreased by 2.3 percent, the service reports. Consumer fuel prices rose for June by an average of 0.2 percent.

The al-Qaeda unit in Iraq took responsibility for a series of attacks throughout the country, the victims of which were 107 people, reports on Wednesday Al Arabiya . According to representatives of the Islamic State Iraq organization, this is only the beginning of a large -scale terrorist campaign. Recall that on Monday Iraq suffered from a series of terrorist attacks . In 13 cities there were explosions and shootings.

The Central Bank expanded the corridor of the oscillations of the ruble course to the bivalyut basket from 6 to 7 rubles. And he reduced the volume of interventions that smooth out these fluctuations, now the currency corridor is 31.65-37.65 rubles. (Now the course is 35.83 rubles), the Central Bank said yesterday. This will bring the Central Bank closer to the purpose of free swimming of the ruble exchange rate, explain their decision in the bank.

24 crew members of the Kola Platform, previously considered missing, were recognized as dead - such a decision was made by the Pervomaisky District Court of Murmansk, RIA Novosti reports on Wednesday. In December last year, during the boxing from Kamchatka to Sakhalin, the Kola Platform rolled over during a strong storm in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. Of the 67 crew members, only 14 were rescued then 24, whose bodies were not found, until recently were listed as missing.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev considers an excessive number of higher educational institutions , which is now in Russia. He stated this at a meeting of the Open Government on Education issues, the RIA Novosti website reports. According to Medvedev, the number of universities “surpasses all the rational framework”, so educational institutions that do not meet modern criteria should be closed.

In Moscow, they do not see any grounds for paying the Lithuania for the occupation of it by the Soviet authorities. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Lukashevich. “We have repeatedly explained that there are no grounds for presenting the Russian Federation to pay compensation. For us, this issue is closed once and for all, ”the department said in the department .

A policeman from Primorye admitted to the abduction of two people who were later found killed. This was announced on July 25 by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Primorye. Last night, the police detained two residents of Artem, who are suspected of abduction and murder. On the night of February 7-8, two men who lived in Artem disappeared.

July 26, 2012 In the intellectual cafe Zavtra with a solo concert will be a rock musician, leader of the group Auctsyon Leonid Fedorov . Less than six months have passed since the release of the album of the Auktsyon "" Yula ", as Leonid Fedorov recorded the solo album" Vesna "at his home studio. The musician himself played on almost all instruments: guitars, bongs , keyboards. Only in one of the central songs of the album - "Horse" - his wife singed to Fedorov.

Ex- President of the Philippines Glori Yu Arraoo, previously accused of fraud in the 2007 parliamentary elections, released on bail, reports on Wednesday BBC . The court set that the investigation does not have enough evidence to keep a policy in custody before the proceedings began. Prior to this Glori, I Arroio, suffering from a serious bone disease, has been in a military hospital since December 2011 .

On July 24, public hearings were held in the Dubovsky district of the Rostov region on the preliminary version of materials for assessing the impact on the environment of the power unit No. 3 of the Rostov NPP. This is stated in the message of the Center for Public Information of the NPP.

The Governor of the Kuban Alexander Tkachev said that if the Investigative Committee establishes that the regional authorities are responsible for the tragedy in Krymsk, he will resign. “I will measure my actions in accordance with the decisions of the Investigative Committee,” said, as RIA Novosti reports, the governor in response to the journalist’s question about whether he is going to leave his post due to the tragedy.

James Holmes, who is a suspect of murder 12 people at the premiere of a new Batman film in the city of Aurora (Colorado), before the attack he sent a notebook with a description of the attack by a professor of psychiatry from the University A Colorado. The law enforcement source told FoxNews about this . It is reported that the parcel got to the post office of the university a week before shooting at the cinema, but for unknown reasons were not transferred to the addressee.

In the American city of Bristow (Virginia ), the 39-year-old US Navy captain Matthew Suini and his wife Amy on suspicion of being beaten by her eight year old son from Russia were arrested, the press service of the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child under the President of Russia said on Wednesday . And the Merican media write that the child ran away from Suin 's house and knocked on the door to strangers. His whole body was covered with traces of beating, the baby refused to go home.