Breaking news, December 21, 2017

In the city of Knoxville (Tennessee, the US) a light-engine aircraft fell directly into the street. Three people are injured. They were able to get out of the plane, and then were hospitalized. Also, a crashed plane damaged one of the parked cars.

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During the past day, the AFU violated the ceasefire 36 times in the DPR, firing 536 units of various ammunition in the front territories of the Republic. The districts of 15 settlements of the Republic were subjected to shelling by artillery, mortars of various caliber, grenade launchers and small arms. Yesterday the Ukrainian military opened a massive artillery fire on Yasinovataya. As a result, two civilians were killed and several people were injured. A number of houses was damaged.

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The driver who hit the pedestrians today in Melbourne did it purposefully, the city police said. «At this stage, we believe that these were deliberate actions, but the motives are still unknown,» the police spokesman said. As a result of the attack, 19 people including children were injured. The police detained the driver and another man.

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The actions of the American coalition and the army of Iraq in the release of Mosul from the ISIS terrorists led to the death of more than three thousand civilians. These data is from international monitoring groups and human rights defenders. According to their information, in total, at least nine thousand people became victims of the clashes in the Iraqi city.

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The State Duma does not plan to send invitations to the PACE Monitoring Mission and the US Congress to participate in monitoring of the presidential elections in Russia in March 2018. This was announced today by the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky. Let’s recall, that the presidential election will be held on March 18, 2018.

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The AFU shelled the positions of the People’s Militia of the LPR six times over the past day. The areas of settlements Kalinovo, Krasny Yar, Logvinovo, Kalinovo-Borshchevatoy and Golubovskoye were subjected to shelling by means of mortars, arms of infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms.