The American company Apple deleted the Fortnite game from the AppStore store after the developers have introduced their own payment system in the Apple commission, writes The Verge. The publication notes that Apple takes 30% of all purchases that users make in the Fortnite application, and direct payment will reduce the cost of the intra -game currency.

Rosneft’s financial results for the second quarter and first half of 2020 showed that the company “outperformed” the analysts’ consensus forecast. In the second quarter, Rosneft recorded a net profit of 43 billion rubles ($0.7 billion) - while experts surveyed by Interfax, on average, expected that Rosneft's net profit in the second quarter would be at the level 10.6 billion rubles.

The US National Security Agency (ANB) and the FBI accused Russian intelligence of creating a new hacker program called Drovorub. This is stated in a joint report of the US special services. The document notes that the virus was launched by the hacker group Fansy Bear, which, according to the US authorities, is managed by the main intelligence administration of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia (GRU).

Over the past day, in 83 regions of Russia, 5065 new cases of coronavirus infection were discovered, 114 patients died, 6568 recovered, Moscow Opershatab reports on the situation with Covid-19. It is noted that about 25.9% of the new sick did not have clinical manifestations of the disease. Most cases of infection per day were found in Moscow (688), St. Petersburg (159), the Moscow Region (156), the Sverdlovsk region (154).

Sberbank canceled a free newsletter of notifications of transfers entering the card. Messages that earlier came automatically will now come only when connecting a special service, RBC reports . The changes entered into force in late July and early August, depending on the region. In order to receive notifications of transfers, Sberbank customers need to connect the “Notifications on the Card” service. The cost of the service is 30 rubles a month for basic cards and 60 rubles for standard.

Israel decided from August 16 to resume the air traffic with three countries - Greece, Bulgaria and Croatia, writes The Jerusalem Post. The Israelis who will go to these countries will not have to be insulated upon returning home. The country also considers options to open flights to Cyprus and Hungary. According to the Jones Hopkins Institute, by August 14, 90,472 coronavirus cases were registered in Israel. 657 people died, recovered - 66 151.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) appealed to the prosecutor's office due to the identified signs of bodily harm at Andrei Karepov, the defendant of the case of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal, TASS reports . The FSIN reported that on August 13, Karepov was taken to an investigative insulator with signs of bodily harm. The department noted that in the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center did not apply physical strength and special means to the accused.

Cyril is the most The publishing house “New Literary Review” published a new book in the series “Intellectual History”. Philologist, Associate Professor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Kirill Ospovat, wrote the monograph “The court literature. The Institute of Literature and the Construction of Absolutism in Russia of the middle of the XVIII century. ” The Institute of Literature in Russia began to take shape in the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna (1741–1761).

The production results of the II quarter showed: Rosneft retains a leading position in the world in the field of hydrocarbons. According to the results of the first half of the year, the volume of liquid hydrocarbons amounted to 4.34 million barrels per day (106.5 million tons). The impact on the indicator was executed by the company's obligations in the framework of the OPEC+agreement in force since April 2020. Rosneft maintains leadership in Russian oil refining.

In the forest near the Kladrubitsky Benedictine monastery in the west of the Czech Republic , a treasure of 435 gold and silver coins of the XIV century was discovered . A married couple who walked through the forest saw two gold and one silver coin among the ears of the earth, tearing away by a wild boar. Turning a flat stone nearby, tourists saw even more coins.

The CEC of Belarus announced the final results of the presidential election, writes TUT.BY. According to these data, 80.1% of voters voted for the current president, and 10.1% for the leader of the opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. In total, 5,818,956 people voted, during early voting - 2,806,640 people.

A new study showed that the indigenous residents of the small island of Mabuyag in the western part of Torres, sharing Australia and New Guinea, cultivated bananas 2145 years ago. The island of Mabuyag, like a number of other islands in the western part of the strait, was inhabited by the natives speaking the Kala-Yela-I language, relating to the Australian family of Pama-Ning. Miriam-worlds, related to the Papuan languages, are widespread in the eastern islands.

Over the past day, 11 patients died in Moscow who had a coronavirus detected. The total number of dead as a result of infection reached 4633, the operational headquarters for monitoring and monitoring the situation with coronaviral infection. In Moscow, which is in the first place in the country in the number of patients with coronavirus, 250303 cases of infection were recorded, including 692 over the past day. 193,473 people recovered.

The Ministry of Defense proposed to classify all the information about the work of the department, even the one that is not considered GOST - such data plan to make a service secret. This is stated in the amendments to the law "On Defense". The document is published on the portal of legal information.

The number of coronavirus around the world was 20907410 people, of which 3.6% died - 755589, 62.2% were cured - 12995523 people, Jones Hopkins reported . Currently, infection cases are recorded in 188 countries. The largest number of infected are registered in the USA - 5248854, 167110 people died there. In second place in the number of infected are Brazil - 3224876 sick, 105463 deaths. In third place, India - 2461190 infected, 48040 died.