The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, proposed amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which would simplify the delivery of foreigners to Russia, in respect of whom an investigation is being conducted in the Russian Federation, ITAR-TASS reports. Earlier, Bastrykin said that the UK has information about 40 Ukrainian military, which, according to the agency, are involved in the shelling of civilians in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

Three factions of the blow, “Freedom” and “Fatherland” announced the withdrawal from the coalition of deputy factions in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, UNIAN reports. The leaders of these factions were voiced at a meeting of the parliament on Thursday. As explained by the chairman of the faction, the blow Vitaly Kovalchuk, the collapse of the coalition will allow the President of Ukraine to dissolve the parliament and appoint early elections to the Verkhovna Rada.

A group of scientists from Plymouth University, led by David Starbuck) is excavating in the vicinity of Lake George in the state of New York, where fierce military operations were conducted in the middle of the 18th century. In those years in North America, there was a war, which went down in history under the name of the Franco-Indian, although, along with the Indian tribes, British troops opposed it in it.

The Polish authorities decided to cancel the “cross” year of Russia in Poland and Poland in Russia, which was planned to be held in 2015.

The head of the Department for the Investigation of Crimes related to the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare, the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Drymanov, announced the presence of evidence of Ukraine’s application with phosphorus filling against civilian purposes. The use of phosphorus ammunition is prohibited by international conventions.

In the United States, a ban on the flights of American flights to Israel was lifted, AFP reports. “We removed restrictions on flying to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv,” the American administration announced. However, the US aviation leadership issued a warning that the situation in Israel could sharply worsen due to the conflict in the gas sector.

Maria Blokhina Track from the phosphorus bomb photo: red-sovet.su The head of the Department for the Investigation of Crimes related to the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare, the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Drymanov, announced the presence of evidence of Ukraine’s application with phosphorus filling against civilian purposes. The use of phosphorus ammunition is prohibited by international conventions.

The European Union expanded its sanctions list, adding 15 names of citizens of Russia and Ukraine to it. It is reported by Reuters . In addition, 18 Russian and Ukrainian companies were on the list. It is noted that the largest companies in the Russian Federation are not in it, but there are mainly the legal entity of Crimea and Ukraine.

At least 25 schoolchildren died in the south of India as a result of a train collision with a school train, Times of India reports. Many adolescents received serious injuries and were hospitalized. In total, at least 40 children aged 7 to 14 years were on the bus.

The constant advice of the OSCE decided to create and send the mission of observers to the Russian-Ukrainian border. It is reported by ITAR-TASS . The mission will be aimed at the checkpoints of Donetsk and Gukovo in the Rostov region. At the same time, Russia said that it will be able to accept Ukrainian observers at border posts only after the establishment of a sustainable truce. Recall that the OSCE will arrive in the border territory at the invitation of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The US authorities have American intelligence data that the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are subjected to artillery shelling from the territory of the Russian Federation. This was announced at regular briefing on Thursday by the deputy head of the US State Department of Marie Marf, ITAR-TASS reports. “There is evidence that Russia from its territory fired at the position of the Ukrainian military from artillery,” she said.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is going to start a new case against the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky. This was announced by the head of the department of the IC of the Russian Federation to investigate crimes related to the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare, Alexander Drymanov in an interview with Kommersant on July 23.

Moscow can apply to the relevant bodies of the World Trade Organization with a request to start a trial against Washington, whose sanctions against the Russian economy violate the norms of this structure. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the statement of the Permanent Representative of Russia under the WTO Gennady Ovechko.

More than two thousand people are trying to cope with the raging in the forests of the Far East by fires, by the morning of Thursday, 36 fires remain not extinguished. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the Forestry Department for the Far Eastern Federal District, last day the Forest East Forest Services worked on extinguishing 42 forest fires. 37 of them - in the territory of Yakutia. About 49 thousand hectares were held in the republic per day in the republic.

Iraq parliament has chosen the new president of the country, reports Reuters . He was a candidate from the Kurdish parliamentary bloc Fuad Maasum. In total, 93 people ran for the presidency. Earlier, the Iraqi parliament postponed the voting date due to uncertainty among Kurdish deputies who wanted to finally agree on their candidacy for the post of head of state to replace the current president Jalyal Talabani.