Algerian authorities said a terrorist attack at a gas complex in the middle of this week killed 23 hostages. But this figure is not final either. Photo: AP As Algerian government spokesman Mohamed Said noted, citizens of the UK, USA, Norway and Japan are still missing. Sappers continue to inspect the territory of the complex cleared of militants, looking for hostages. At the same time, M. Said clarified that all 32 terrorists who attacked the complex were destroyed.

More than 25 thousand people took to the streets of Dublin, Ireland to protest against government plans to allow abortion. The action became part of the growing “Picketing for Life” campaign. The BBC reports this. On the eve of the demonstration, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, held a special church service "in the name of the children who are in their mothers' wombs." At the same time, supporters of abortion rights held their rally on the streets of the Irish capital.

The next meeting of the Opposition Coordination Council, held on January 20, revealed a number of problems in the activities of the executive body. Photo: RBC In particular, the coordinating body had difficulty gathering a quorum. Prominent oppositionists expressed fear that after a few meetings the work of the CSR would be paralyzed due to non-appearance. In addition, members of the CSR complained about non-payers in their ranks, which was reported on microblogs.

The US Coast Guard transported two Russian sailors from the Greek tanker Energy Conqueror to a San Diego hospital. The Russians were injured after a cable broke on the ship, the Maritime Bulletin reports. Photo: Klaus Kehrls The captain of the tanker decided to contact rescuers. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter evacuated the Russians on the morning of January 18. At that moment, the tanker was 200 km from the coast.

In Prague on the afternoon of January 20, a 36-year-old man attempted to commit self-immolation on Wenceslas Square in the historical center of the Czech capital. A local resident doused himself with flammable liquid and set himself on fire, but law enforcement officers managed to quickly put out the flames, Reuters reports . As a result of a suicide attempt, the man received burns on his fingers. Police believe that a local resident wanted to take his own life.

In the Sverdlovsk region, 8 people died as a result of a fire. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the region, the tragedy occurred in the village of Sadovy in the city of Yekaterinburg. Photo: ITAR-TASS According to rescuers, the fire was reported at 06:23 local time (04:23 Moscow time). Firefighters arriving at the scene found that a one-story administrative building, which housed a construction team, was on fire.

An explosion occurred in a shopping center in the suburbs of Athens. As a result of the incident, two people were injured. The incident occurred near the branch of the National Bank of Greece. The explosive device was planted in a trash can. As a result, there were no casualties, but two security guards received minor injuries. It is noteworthy that unknown persons warned about the explosion in advance by calling the editorial office of one of the local newspapers.

The inauguration ceremony of US President Barack Obama took place in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington. The politician, in the presence of Chief Justice John Roberts, his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, took the oath and officially took office, the Associated Press reports.

Snowfalls that hit Europe paralyzed transport links in the UK, France and Germany. Major European airports were forced to cancel hundreds of flights. Photo: Global Look Press Snow removal equipment in airports cannot cope with the volume of work, and runways cannot be cleared on time. In France, due to bad weather, an increased, “orange” level of meteorological alert was introduced.

In Algeria, a special operation continues at the In Amenas oil and gas complex in the Sahara Desert in the east of the country. Islamists seized the station on January 16, taking nearly 700 employees, including foreigners, hostage. A few days later, special forces managed to free the hostages. Today, security forces detained five criminals who participated in the terrorist attack, Reuters reports .

Exactly a year after one of the largest file hosting services - Megaupload - was closed at the request of the US Attorney's Office, the project received a new life under a new name. The new resource operates under the name Mega and is located at mega.co.nz. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom announced this on his microblog on Twitter. Photo: Global Look Press Since the servers of the new file hosting service are located outside the United States, K.

A fatal accident occurred in the Tula region involving a police officer. A 22-year-old junior sergeant drove his personal VAZ car into the oncoming lane on the Eastern bypass of Tula, resulting in a head-on collision with a Toyota RAV-4 car in which there were a 39-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl. Photo: ITAR-TASS As a result of the accident, the woman died, the girl was hospitalized with an abdominal injury and a bruise to her face.

Law enforcement officials continue to investigate the criminal case regarding the attack on People's Artist of Russia, artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater ballet troupe Sergei Filin. Photo: Global Look Press The man was attacked by unknown assailants on the night of January 18 near the Tsvetnoy Boulevard metro station on Troitskaya Street. The attackers doused the artist with an unknown liquid.

In Algeria, during an inspection of the oil and gas complex of Statoil, BP and Sonatrach in the Sahara Desert in the east of the country, the bodies of 25 dead were discovered. Photo: Global Look Press As local security officials assume, all those killed were hostages captured by Islamists on January 16 and executed by militants after the start of the assault on the complex, Reuters reports citing a local TV channel.

The funeral of crime boss Aslan Usoyan, better known under the nickname Ded Hasan, took place at the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow. Several hundred people came to say goodbye to the thief in law, Ekho Moskvy reports. Photo: ITAR-TASS The funeral events took place under unprecedented security measures. In particular, security guards restricted travel on some cemetery roads. Journalists were not allowed to attend the funeral. A.