The US Presidential Administration Barack Obama decided not to extend the ban on oil and natural gas for several decades along the Atlantic coast of the United States. This was reported on Friday by the Ocean Energy Bureau under the US Department of Internal Affairs By the decision of this department, from now on, in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, seismic studies using pneumatic guns will be allowed off the coast of the United States.

Who. Map of hostilities in the east of Ukraine. Condition for July 18 According to political analyst Andrei Obara, without taking into account the specifics of Donbass, attempts to restore the separatists will remain a "dialogue of the deaf" Experts reflect on the reasons why the conflict in the east of Ukraine turned out to be so difficult and moved to a protracted military phase.

Place of explosion on the road in Peshavara, July 18, 2014 In the north-west of Pakistan on Friday, 13 people became victims of attacks, including one civilian. In the city of Dzhamrud, a group of militants fired at a checkpoint 40 kilometers from Peshavar. Eight troops were killed. Four militants were killed in a shootout. According to the authorities, the searches of the rest of the attackers are conducted. On the same day in Peshavar, a bomb exploded on the path of a police car.

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Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine Said Ismagilov - about the conflict in the Donbass This week in Donetsk, the joint efforts of representatives of the Muslim and Christian churches managed to free from the captivity of the separatists a priest of the Ukrainian Greekatolic Church Father Tikhon (in the world - Sergey Kulbaki).

"Physiological dissidents" - a conversation about red -haired, left -handed, twins. Tenor Mikhail Alexandrovich. By the centenary of birth. Culture historian Mikhail Bakhtin and his neighbors (Saransk). In the radioantology of modern Russian poetry, the poems of the city of Biszubov, M. Tarkovsky and A. Naiman.

In the picture: Denis Pushilin Denis Pushilin, chairman of the Supreme Council of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, was dismissed on Friday evening, as Interfax told, of his own free will. This was stated by the Vice Speaker of the DPR Parliament Vladimir Makovich. According to him, Denis is now in Moscow. He sent a letter in the name of Makovich with a request to withdraw from his position of his own free will. At the Council session, this issue was posed for voting.

Airlines of many countries of the world after yesterday's disaster of the Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk announced the abolition of flights to Ukrainian cities and abandoning flights of flights over Eastern Ukraine. On the eve of the European air navigation security organization closed the airspace of Ukraine for flights of civil aviation aircraft. A similar ban was introduced by the authorities of the United States and China. Aeroflot temporarily canceled flights to Kyiv and Odessa.

School building in Lugansk, July 16, 2014 In Lugansk, the separatists fired at several buses with refugees. According to a representative of the national security and defense of Andrei Lysenko, about 20 bodies are on the city streets, the separatists do not let them pick up until Russian journalists come to give them out for the victims of the fire of Ukrainian military, writes Ukrainian Pravda.

Israel intends to reduce its diplomatic presence in Turkey after protests in relation to a ground operation in the gas sector. From it, the Israeli consulate in Istanbul was thrown with stones and draped by Palestinian flags the ambassador of the ambassador in Ankara.

The place of the fall of the Malaysian "Boeing" near Donetsk Representatives of the self -proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" guaranteed the security and cooperation organizations in Europe safe access to the place of the Malaysian Boeing Malaysian. In addition, the separatists promised to cooperate with the Ukrainian authorities and international experts in the investigation of the plane crash.

At least 24 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed since the beginning of the ground operation in the gas sector began Israel on Thursday. Dozens of people are injured. According to the army command, the purpose of the operation is to stop the missile shelling of the Israeli territory by militants of the Palestinian radical group Hamas. Since July 8, Israel has been continuing intense airstrikes on the positions of militants.

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This woman from Malaysia on board the Boeing Catastrophe was a sister The Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak called the catastrophe of the passenger aircraft Malaysia Airlines, presumably shot down by a rocket in the east of Ukraine, "deeply shocking." According to Razok, the incident became the "tragic day of the tragic year" for Malaysia, obviously, referring to the catastrophe of another passenger liner Malaysia Airlines, which disappeared on March 8 on the way from Kuala Lumpur to