The authorities of Serbia have developed a number of amendments to the legislation, according to which the prison term for citizens of the country for participation in hostilities abroad can be up to five years, and for organizing the departure of mercenaries to the places of battles - up to 12 years in prison. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the deputy chairman of the government Rasima Lich.

The hospitals of the city of Makeevka are full of wounded after the shelling of the city by the Ukrainian security forces, ITAR-TASS Vice-Prime Minister, the proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Andrei Purgin. “Makeevka fired at all. Hospitals are packed with fragmentation wounds, ”he said. “The exact number of victims and dead at the moment is not known.” He also noted that there was no complete picture of what happened in Makeevka, now there are problems with the connection.

The African development bank will allocate $ 60 million to countries in which cases of Ebola fever were recorded, AFP reports. According to President Abr Donald Kaberuk, financial support will be provided by Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. “The Ebola epidemic is not only a crisis of the healthcare system, but also an economic crisis ... that affects many areas,” the president said.

The repeated assault by the forces of the Ukrainian battalions of the territorial defense of the city of Ilovaisk in the Donetsk region was successful: the city center is taken, the Ukrainian flag is fluttered there. This was reported by UNIAN with reference to the press service of the Donbass battalion. “Thanks to the spent maneuvers, groups of the Donbass battalion, which entered cities from ten different directions, we managed to break through to the city center (Ilovaisk).

On Tuesday, a passenger bus fell off the overpass on Tuesday and collapsed to a public transport stop on Molodezhnaya Street in Vladivostok, as a result of which three people were injured. It is reported by Primamedia . Two-this is a 29-year-old woman-man from Uzbekistan and a 39-year-old bus driver-suffered hard, they are hospitalized. Another person escaped with easy injuries and refused to hospitalize.

Polish scientists continued to study the 200-year-old ceramic bottle found in the waters of the Baltic Sea. As we have already reported , this summer a group of underwater archaeologists who examined the crash of the vessel, which transported the construction stone along the coast, found a tightly clogged branded bottle of potion mineral water. The bottle was made between 1806 and 1830. Even then, the researchers suggested that the contents of the bottle may not be mineral water at all.

The International Red Cross Committee plans to resolve issues with the safety of the passage of the humanitarian convoy in the east of Ukraine until August 20. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the representative of the ICRC. “For a certain time, negotiations are underway. It is difficult to contact everyone, to establish contact.

Oleg Mikheev’s deputy Mikheev introduced a bill to the State Duma, giving law to reporters working in hot spots to retire ahead of schedule. The deputy told Interfax about this. According to him, the experience of such journalists should be calculated according to the scheme "Day for three", as on the front line.

Ukraine asks the Switzerland authorities to transfer the frozen funds of the members of the environment of ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, writes ITAR-TASS with reference to the message of Folko Gally, the press secretary of the Federal Department of Justice, which is part of the structure of the Federal Department (Ministry) of Justice and Switzerland Police.

In the American St. Louis, the former prisoner of Auschwitz, 90-year-old Hedi Epstine, was detained. According to The Independent , the woman was detained among other demonstrators gathered near the residence of the Governor of the state Missuri. Activists protested against accommodation in Ferguson, where a wave of riots had previously swept after the murder of a black teenager by police officers, units of the National Guard .

The chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Alexander, having met with Lithuania President Dalley Gribauskaite, said that Kyiv needs military aid of the West. His words are given by RIA Novosti . “We believe that the time has come when Ukraine needs not only moral, but also military assistance,” he said. Turchinov also stated that the events in the east of Ukraine are “this is not a challenge to Ukraine,” and all civilized countries must unite in order to stop the fighting.

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The US State Department on Monday expressed concern about the sentence to four activists in the “swamp” case, who received up to 3.5 years of prison from a conditional period. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the official representative of the department Marie Harf. “We urge the Russian government to stop punishing Russians who have taken advantage of the right guaranteed by the Constitution to freedom of speech and the meeting,” she said.

In the period from August 16 to 18, 84 deaths were recorded in West Africa from the spreading epidemic of the Ebola virus. According to Reuters, the number of deaths from the epidemic that began in March 2014 has already reached 1299. In particular, since last Saturday, 53 deaths from the Ebola virus were registered in Liberia, 17 in Sierra Leone, 14 in Guerri-14. In Nigeria, 10 new cases of infection were registered over the past week, the total number of patients is 12 people.