One of McDonald's restaurants in Tokyo removed a sign that forbade homeless people to enter the institution, reports The Asahi Shimbun . McDonald's took such a step after accusations of discrimination. The announcement was removed on October 27, but it sagged there for a whole year. The text said that the restaurant administration may refuse to maintain untidy and homeless people.

The sophisticated earthquake shocked the central part of Chile, including the capital of Santiago, AP reports with reference to the US Geological Service. The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.6, and its epicenter was about 65 kilometers to the south-west of the city of Cokimbo at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). Nothing is reported about the victims and destruction. Chile is one of the most seismic hazardous countries in the world.

Most Russians called the conditional sentence to the opposition Alexei Navalny in the Kirovles case too soft. This is evidenced by the data of the hundred -Russian center, conducted by the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM). 46% of Russian citizens call the court decision too soft and only 8% consider it too harsh.

State Duma deputy from the A Just Russia faction Ilya Ponomarev left the party. Polit.ru talked to him about the prospects and possibilities for changing the Socialist Revolutionaries. Ilya Vladimirovich, before the congress you pinned certain hopes on the fact that Sergei Mironov would become the new chairman of the party. He became one, but did not live up to your expectations? Let's be clear, Sergei Mironov is not the new party chairman, not even a very well-forgotten party chairman.

The authorities of the Moscow Region will not allow the creation of the Center for Temporary Maintenance of Illegal Migrants to be deported in the Chekhov region of the region, Interfax reports with reference to the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov. Vorobyov explained that this issue is closed and you can not return to it.

The pastoral landscape, on which the British Street-Reter Banksy finished the soldier sitting on the banks of the River in Nazi uniforms, purchased at a charity auction in the United States for 615 thousand dollars, the Bidding for Good Goods said. The final price that the user proposed under the nickname Gorpetri turned out to be lower than the expectations of the organizers - they counted on the price of at least a million dollars.

Google announced its flagship Nexus 5 smartphone, which is the lightest and thinnest of the Nexus line, Digit.ru writes. The smartphone uses a 5-inch display with a resolution of Full HD (1920x1600 points), it will support the HDR+mode that shoots a series of pictures and automatically combines them. The smartphone was created with cooperation with LG. Nexus 5 operates at the 2.26-GHC processor Snapdragon 800-the fastest processor of Qualcomm.

The Kremlin considers the need to transfer part of the governor's elections from 2015 and 2016 to September next year. This is due to the desire to conduct fewer election campaigns before the Duma elections in December 2016, they write Vedomosti in a room of November 1 with reference to sources close to the Kremlin and the leadership of United Russia. Thus, the elections of VA in 2014 can be held in more than 20 regions.

Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomiya Finland said that his department was a victim of large -scale network espionage, Yle radio station reports. The database was subjected to hacking, however, Tuomiya noted, the most secret data were not stolen. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the theft occurred in the spring of this year. The foreign policy has already taken appropriate measures, including informed the police.

The Permanent Representative of Russia at the EU Vladimir Chizhov told Interfax that issues of facilitating the visa regime between Russia and the European Union should be discussed separately from other issues. According to him, the problems must be solved based on the general priorities, which in this case is a deepening of strategic partnership.

Ecologists are now conducting a fairly advanced dialogue with the structures of Rosatom. This was about the speech at the VII International Forum Atomoko 2013, which took place in Moscow on October 30-31, said Alexander Nikitin, chairman of the board of the Bellona Ecological and Legal Center. According to him, the situation of interaction between environmental organizations and the atomic state corporation has changed a lot for the better.

The arsenals of chemical weapons accumulated by Damascus will be destroyed in Albania, Kommersant writes with reference to the Russian diplomatic source. According to him, at the moment, the United States continues negotiations with two or three states. But most likely Albania will agree to accept poisonous substances from material and political considerations.

Former American intelligence officer Edward Snowden will not testify on the facts of the wiretapping of the German Chancellor Angel Merkel outside the country, but is ready to answer the questions of German prosecutors in writing or in person in Russia, Interfax reports with reference to a source familiar with the situation. According to him, Snowden's departure from Russia will be equal to the loss of refugee status, which means that there is a threat of issuing it to Washington.

The most dangerous road in China is the highway to the city of Ujan (the capital of the Hubei province), Sinhua reports. Over the past 10 years, 206 people have died on this road. The total length of this high -speed highway, which crosses the Yangtze River through the Yanley bridge, is 30 kilometers. According to statistics, starting from the time the road commissioning in 2003, 275 accidents occurred on the highway.

At least seven people were injured when shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, reports Reuters. Six people are hospitalized with firearms. The criminal wounded by police was detained. One of the employees of the transport security department died of injuries. In connection with the investigation of the circumstances of the incident, Los Angeles International Airport only works to receive flights, the departure of aircraft was detained indefinitely.