The governor of the Odessa region, the former President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, announced the change of the prosecutor in the region, Rosbalt Ukraine reports. In addition, Saakashvili said that by the end of August new heads of district city administrations will be appointed. The regional governor said that the region needs “young and talented” people at all key posts. This, according to the head of the region, will contribute to the speedy reform.

The match of the fifth round of the Russian Football Championship between the capital's teams Spartak and CSKA was postponed to Friday August 14. The reason for the transfer of the game was CSKA's performance in the Play-Off League of the UEFA Champions League, the website of the Russian Football Premier League says . The match "Spartak" - CSKA will be held at the Spartak Stadium "Opening Arena" in Moscow. Earlier, the game was supposed to take place on Saturday August 15.

Five women were killed on the eve of India because of suspicion in witchcraft. Samosud was arranged by residents of the village of Kanzhye in the eastern state of Jarchan, reports The Indian Express . The alleged sorcerers were scored with sticks to death. All victims were 45-50 years old. On suspicion of the murder, 24 people were arrested. Since 2001, in India, according to official statistics, 400 women were killed due to suspicions in witchcraft.

In the United States, the jury made a decision in the case of James Holmes, who shot 12 people at the cinema in Colorado, Reuters reports. The jury college, consisting of nine women and three men, decided to sentenced 27-year-old James Holmes to life imprisonment. As noted, such a sentence was passed after the jury after 13 hours of discussion could not come to a single decision regarding the death penalty by introducing an injection.

Russian Maria Sharapova refused to participate in the open championship of Canada on tennis. The reason for the refusal of the tennis player was the stretching of the right leg, the press service of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) reports . Sharapova was supposed to perform at the tournament under the second number. The open championship of Canada for tennis (sponsorship - Rogers Cup) will begin in Toronto on August 10.

Scientific adviser to the Higher School of Economics, Minister of Economics of Russia from 1994 to 1997. Evgeny Yasin will become a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights. His candidacy was presented to the head of state by the head of the HRC Mikhail Fedotov, Vladimir Putin agreed with the proposal, now it remains to draw up a corresponding decree and officially publish it.

In Tuva, a Mi-8 helicopter of the company "Tuvan Airlines", which disappeared in early October 2014, was found, the press service of the regional administration reports. The fact of detection of the wreckage of the helicopter was confirmed by the head of the republic Sholban Kara-ool. On Saturday, he personally flew to the alleged place of the crash of aircraft in the upper reaches of the Ulug-O River.

The head of the Lugansk Regional Military Administration, appointed in July, Georgy Tuka believes that Ukraine should weaken the blockade of the self-proclaimed DPR and the LPR. The governor wrote about this on his blog on Censor.net.ua. “Quite often, I hear exclamations such as“ you can’t trade with the invaders ”, etc. More recently, I myself thought so ... Now, having worked for only two weeks, I“ reduced the degree, ”Tuka said.

During the VKontakte survey , the most memorable person or the phenomenon of the week was won by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, who is very expensive for a civil servant. 39.4% of the voted voted for him. In second place are sanctions products, which from August 8 are indicatively destroyed in Russia (33.3%).

14 people were injured as a result of an accident with a minibus in the Irkutsk region, 11 of them are in a state of moderate severity, three - in a heavy one, said in a message on the official website of the region. The accident occurred at the 1843th kilometer of the M-53 highway in the Irkutsk-Angarsk section. The Fiat Taxi, which was in Svirsk, for an unknown reason, has turned upside down. All victims were taken to the hospital.

The guardian of the daughter of Whitney Houston Bobby Christina Brown accused the girl’s civil husband of her intentionally poisoning, reports Reuters . Bedelia Hargrove (Bedelia Hargrive) made the charge against Nick Gordon. The day before, she supplemented the lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of the American state of Georgia. The first version of a civil lawsuit against Gordon Hargrov was on June 24. The woman claims that on the day of the tragedy - January 31, 2015 - young people quarreled.

In Tunisia, 12 people were detained who tried to illegally penetrate Libya, Interfax reports with reference to the statement of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs. “The suspects said they planned to cross the border and get to the territory of Libya with the help of a smuggler,” the ministry said in a statement. They are suspected of extremism at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They believe that the detainees wanted to join one of the terrorist groups in Libya.

The former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Schmidt was hospitalized on August 7 to the Hamburg hospital, according to the German publication Focus Online . Doctors diagnosed a 96-year policy of dehydration. As the chief physician of the clinic Karl-Khinz Cook told the publication, the doctors suspected the former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Heart, but these fears were not confirmed. Now the life of Helmut Schmidt does not threaten anything.

The reason for the departure from the rails of the four cars of the passenger train in Mordovia, according to preliminary data, was the intervention of unauthorized persons in the work of transport. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Russian Railways. Meanwhile, the source of Interfax , familiar with the situation, said that dozens of rail mounts were promoted at the site of the wagons gathering. There was no confirmation of this information from official sources.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine confirmed the death of a citizen of the country when attacking militants on the BYBLOS hotel in Mali, according to the website of the department. “According to preliminary data obtained from the Malian side and the UN mission in Mali (Minusa), four citizens of Ukraine were captured as a result of the attack, one of which died. One Ukrainian managed to escape from the attackers, and now he is on the basis of minus in the province of Mopti.