The British authorities froze the assets of the North Korean Korea National Insurance Corporation (KNIC), whose headquarters are located in London. According to The Guardian, Knic attributed part in financing the nuclear military program of Pyongyan. Prior to this, the European Union imposed on KNIC, explaining that the company directed significant foreign exchange earnings to support the current DPRK regime.

South Ossetia again began to receive electricity, damage on the lines is eliminated. This was reported to TASS in the IDGC of the North Caucasus. As specified in the network company, the accident occurred in the morning in the Alagir Gorge of North Ossetia. Electricity comes from it to South Ossetia. At the same time, Alan Gabaraev, Director General of the RSUP Energoresurs, told Interfax that now South Ossetia has been connected to electricity according to the temporary scheme.

The King of Saudi Arabia Salman Bin Abdul-Aziz ordered to restore financial privileges of officials and military personnel. The signing of the relevant decrees is reported by Arab News. Payments of bonuses and bonuses were cut by 15–20% in September 2016 amid the fall of world oil prices. In addition, then the king ordered to freeze an increase in salaries for lower -sized lifting.

Samsung delays the supply of its new Galaxy S8 smartphone to customers who pre -order. About this writes "Renhap". The company began to take pre -orders on April 7, promising to deliver the new Galaxy S8 for 11 days. Nevertheless, due to the record number of orders-1.04 million-"reserves [smartphones] quickly ended." Problems also arose with gifts to the first customers.

British citizen Joseph Stone died during the explosion of the Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation Mission in Europe (OSCE) near Lugansk. This was written on Facebook by an adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Anton Gerashchenko.

The Apple’s application to the California vehicle for testing unmanned vehicles also talked about operators. Reuters got acquainted with the document. According to the agency, in general, the application consists of 41 pages, 10 of which are devoted to the operators training plan, which will have to manually manage the machine during the testing of an unmanned system.

In France, on April 23, the first tour of the presidential election began, reports Reuters . Polling stations will work until 19:00 local time (20:00 Moscow time), but in some cities until 20:00 (21:00 Moscow time). https://twitter.com/afpfr/status/856065357248954369 11 candidates registered in the elections, of which four are the favorites .

In the Patriot Park near Moscow, the reconstruction of the assault on the Berlin Reichstag in 1945 began in Kubinka. The broadcast from the scene is TASS. You can also watch the video on RT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6owytzbhxmc According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, about one and a half thousand people out of 125 military-historical clubs in Russia, Belarus, Israel, Poland, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Ukraine and Germany take part in the “assault”.

The US citizen died in the explosion of the Mission of the Safety and Cooperation Mission in Europe (OSCE) near Lugansk. This was reported to Interfax by a source in the power structures of the self -proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic (LPR). According to the interlocutor of the agency, German citizens were injured. He did not specify the names of the victims and the deceased.

One person died and one more suffered in the explosion of a car in security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) under Lugansk. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the People’s Police of the self -proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic (LPR). The OSCE confirmed that the organization’s patrol “was involved in a serious security incident in the Luhansk region”. The interlocutor of the agency did not specify whether there were dead and victims.

The republic was de-energized because of the hurricane and the gathering of an avalanche in North Ossetia South Ossetia is completely de -energized. This was reported by TASS with reference to IDGC of the North Caucasus. “There were many avalanches in the mountains of North Ossetia, plus there was a hurricane wind that damaged the net lines,” the network company explained. Now power engineers are setting the place for a break in the networks.

The chairman of the National Front party Marine Le Pen is leading in the first round of the presidential election of France. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France. After calculating half the votes, Le Pen gained 24.1%. https://twitter.com/afpfr/status/85623942696298496 Emmanuel Macron, a candidate from the forward movement, has 22.44%, Francois Fiion had 19.57%. Earlier it was reported that Macron is the leader in the first round.

As a result of the explosion of the car of the security and cooperation organization in Europe (OSCE), a US citizen died near Lugansk. This information during the OSCE briefing in Kiev was confirmed by the first deputy head of the OSCE special monitoring commission in Ukraine (SMM) Alexander Khug. In addition, he noted that two members of the mission - citizens of Germany and the Czech Republic were also injured in the explosion.

According to preliminary data, Emmanuel Macron and candidate of the ultra -right National Front, Marine Le Pen, reached the second round of elections of the President of France according to preliminary data. This was reported by the radio station "France Info". Macron leads with 23.7% of the vote, Le Pen received 21.7%.

The previous project was withdrawn from Congress The new bill on the reform of the US health system will not completely cancel Obamacare, writes Bloomberg with reference to Republican Dave Brat. According to Brat, “the chances of [the adoption by the Congress of Reform] are very good,” and the majority will say “yes” if, upon introducing the bill, the White House will take into account all the agreements. He added that the vote will be held in early May.