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Skiing. World Cup. Val-Gardena, Italy Men. Super Gigant 1. Bet Fairy (Switzerland) 2. Bode Miller (USA) 3. Kietil Yansrud (Norway)

Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos Shakal The court in Paris on Thursday sentenced Venezuela, Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos Shakal, for organizing four terrorist attacks in France in the early 80s. Then 11 people died, more than 140 were injured. 62-year-old Carlos Shakal is a former one of the most famous left-wing terrorists. He is already serving a life imprisonment for three murders committed in France in 1975.

In the capital of Afghanistan Kabul, an armed militant attacked the district police station. He threw at least one grenade into the building, and then disappeared. No one was injured. According to witnesses, a shootout was heard at the scene. Local authorities said that the situation is under control. The Taliban took responsibility for the attack. They claim that a group of suicide bombers made an attack, there are victims.

Who will stop the civil war in Syria? Russia presented a draft resolution in the UN Security Council aimed at resolving the Syrian crisis. The termination of repressions from the Bashar al -Assad regime against protests is achieved at the Security Council over the past few months. Earlier , Russia and China have blocked proposals for sanctions against Damascus . In the document presented by Russia, both sides of the conflict are condemned.

Belarusian human rights activist Ales Belyatsky -The European Union imposed sanctions against two Belarusian officials involved in the trial in the case of human rights activist Alesya Belyatsky . Their accounts in the EU countries will be frozen and visa restrictions for them will be introduced. Ales Belyatsky - the leader of the Vesna human rights group - was sentenced in November to four and a half years in prison on charges of tax evasion.

Protesters - on the central square of the city of Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan. According to unconfirmed reports, the mass riots in the city of Zhanaozen in the south-west of Kazakhstan turned into clashes between the striking workers of gas and oil fields and the police. During these clashes, several dozen people could die. The authorities claim that strikers armed with sticks and bottles with incendiary mixture dispersed the festive procession in honor of the Day of Independence of Kazakhstan.

Mario Monty The Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament on Friday evening adopted a government plan of anti -crisis measures. The bill proposed by Prime Minister Mario Monty was supported by 402 deputies, 75 were against it, 22 - abstained. The decree on the salvation of Italy, as Monti described it, was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers on December 4. However, government proposals aroused criticism of some parliamentary parties and trade unions.

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In the West of Kazakhstan, during the mass riots in the city of Zhanaozen, the Mangistau region, 10 people were killed, according to preliminary data, there are wounded, including police officers. In the city, the buildings of the city hall, hotels, and the office of the oil company Ozenmunaygaz were burned, the Prosecutor General of the Republic Askhat Daulbaev said at a briefing in Astana.

Vladimir Putin answers questions of viewers Blogs, and not only Russian, are most reminiscent of the forum of Fans of Dr. House: it is assumed that all the participants without exception know all the plot turns of the tenth series of the documentary film “Direct Line with Vladimir Putin” - exclusively details, motivation and mistakes in translation are discussed. Surprisingly, the Banderalogs with which Putin compared the opposition did not become the main topic.