North Korea developed a plan for the capture of South Korea using nuclear weapons, reports Korea Joongang Daily . According to the publication, the plan is designed for invasion of South Korea for a week, with counteracting from the US Army - for fifteen days. The DPRK is ready to involve up to 200 thousand military personnel, artillery, military aviation, as well as nuclear weapons.

Humanitarian columns from Russia arrived in Donetsk and Lugansk. It is reported by RIA Novosti . According to Oleg Voronov, Deputy Head of the National Center for Management in Crisis Situations of the Ministry of Emergencies, the column delivered food, medicines, essential items and Christmas gifts for children. 700 tons of humanitarian aid were delivered to the cities.

The current year will be the year of low oil prices, only in 2016 the world prices for Black Gold will increase slightly, the World Bank report said . WB experts note the excess of oil supply over demand and weakening of geopolitical tension in the world, which leads to consolidating low oil prices. This will challenge large exporters of oil and have a significant impact on the economy of countries aimed at importing raw materials resources, the report is noted.

A man who shot at the outskirts of Paris hid, the agency France-Presse, citing a statement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France, reports. As previously reported , the police managed to detain the shooter. It turned out that it has an “African origin”, and therefore it can hardly be involved in the attack in the publication of Charlie Hebdo. During the shooting, a policeman and an employee of the road service were seriously wounded, both of them are in critical condition.

The Foreign Minister of Russia and Germany, Sergei Lavrov and Frank Walter Steinmeier, will continue meetings in connection with the situation in Ukraine in bilateral and “Norman” formats at various levels. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.

Ilya Karpyuk "Charlie is me" Flickr/Finn Frode The French reacted to shooting at the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Ebdo) as the nations - tens of thousands of people took to the streets. About 35 thousand people gathered in Paris Square in Paris, in Lyon and Renna - at least 15 thousand, in Nice and Toulouse - 10 thousand, about 100 thousand people entered the demonstration throughout the country on Wednesday evening.

The Barcelona football club from Catalonia broke off relations with the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), GOAL.COM reports with reference to the President of Barca Josep Bartomeu. The club’s leadership made such a decision due to sanctions by the Federation, which forbade the “blue-granatov” to acquire new players from September 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015 due to the opened violations during transfers and registration of Youth players .

The Presidential Commissioner for the RF Law of the Russian Federation Pavel Astakhov regarded the call of the ex-head of the company Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky to publish cartoons for the Prophet Muhammad after the attack in the satirical journal Charlie Hebdo as an insult to believers. “Amazing myopia, scarcity, intolerance and shallow percussion to a person who claimed the role of the“ leader of the liberal community ”and the colony has served 10 years.

Wounded in a shootout on the outskirts of Paris, a police officer died. This was reported by the France Info radio station. Meanwhile , in the city of Reims, the police arrested five people on suspicion of involvement in the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Among them were Sheriff Kuasha’s sister, her husband, as well as the wife of Said Kuashi. As it became known earlier, a policeman and an employee of the road service were seriously wounded at the time of shooting, both were in critical condition.

Police special forces left the building in the French city of Reims without detaining the alleged participants in the attack on the editorial office of the satirical magazine Chalrie Hebdo in Paris, iTele TV channel reports . At the same time, NBC News reported, citing two employees of the American counter-terrorism service, that during the operation one of the suspects was killed and two were taken into custody. There has been no official confirmation of this information.

The team of engineers from a scientific and technical university in the atlanta metropolis of Georgia (United States) managed to make a unique wireless portable device. It transforms the movements of the language of the resident of our planet into obvious commands, leading the mouse cursor or a wheelchair. When testing the latest adaptation, paralyzed people experiencing suffering with solid trauma of the spinal cord and other ailments managed to move objects.

On a cruise ship off the coast of Costa Rica, a fire occurred, as a result of which two people were killed, reports the Associated Press with reference to the message of the Red Cross. Presumably, about 100 people are on board the court. The causes and scale of the fire are still unknown.

According to the results of trading on Thursday, January 8, the ruble continued to strengthen its positions in relation to the US dollar and the euro. This is evidenced by the data on the website of the Moscow Exchange. At 18:09 in Moscow, the dollar rate fell to 59.97 rubles, losing 3.27 rubles. At the same time, the euro fell to 72.01 rubles, and checked by 2.91 rubles. In the morning on Thursday, during trading on the Moscow Exchange, the dollar rate dropped below 61 rubles.

Dmitry Yarosh, leader of the Ukrainian right -handed organization Right Sector, promised to come to the next meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a grenade in his pocket, Gromadska TV reports. The leader of Ukrainian nationalists explained to reporters that he feels calmer next to some Ukrainian deputies, having weapons with him.

The Government of Ukraine and the Federal Government of Germany signed a joint statement on the provision of credit guarantees in the amount of 500 million euros, according to the Unified portal of the executive authorities of Ukraine. According to the report, the application was signed following the meeting of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Vice Chancellor of Germany, Minister of Economics and Energy of Sigmar Gabriel.