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Japan to join US, create new space force over ‘new threats’ – PM Abe Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said his country will create a space defense force to protect the country from technological threats. Working closely with the US, the unit will protect Japan's interstellar interests, such as satellites and rockets, Sky News reported. Abe also said on Monday he wanted his country to defend itself from cyber threats and from electromagnetic interference to its satellites. The Space Domain Mission Unit will begin work in April. It will be added to an existing air base in Fuchu, close to Tokyo and initially be staffed with 20 people. Japan to join US, create new space force over ‘new threats’ – PM Abe

Russian president submits candidacy of Investigative Committee’s deputy head for post of general prosecutor President Vladimir Putin has submitted for consideration by the Federation Council the candidacy of deputy head of the Investigative Committee, Igor Krasnov, for the post of the Russian Prosecutor General. A proposal “to dismiss Yury Chaika from this position due to his transfer to other work” was also submitted to the upper house of parliament, the Kremlin’s press service said on Monday. Chaika has served since June 2006 and was reappointed to the post in June 2016. His tenure was formally set to expire in 2021. Krasnov was appointed to the post of deputy chief of the Russian Investigative Committee in 2016. Russian president submits candidacy of Investigat...

‘Horrifying to imagine what was inside’: 5 people killed as hot water pipe bursts in Russian hostel (VIDEO) Five people have died and three have been hospitalized with severe burns after a hot water pipe burst at a hostel in Russia. The incident happened in Perm, some 1,155km (718 miles) east of Moscow. The pipe burst around 2am local time on Monday, sending steam and boiling-hot water throughout the small hostel, located on the basement floor of an apartment complex. “There was steam, and water has reached the hostel’s entrance. I’m afraid to imagine what was going on inside the building,” one witness told local media. A video from the scene shows clouds of thick white steam coming from the hostel’s doors and a window. В пермском отеле...

At least 2 killed and 15 injured in a shooting outside a nightclub in Kansas City, Missouri A gunman opened fire on a line of people outside a night club in Kansas City, Missouri, killing one and wounding 15 more before being shot dead by a security guard, local media reported, citing police. BREAKING: @kcpolice & @CityOfIndepMO police on scene of a shooting at a nightclub on Highway 40 off South Noland Road. @41actionnews pic.twitter.com/uLgzLtgfLM— Andres Gutierrez (@AFGutierrez) January 20, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js DETAILS TO FOLLOW At least 2 killed and 15 injured in a shooting outside a nightclub in Kansas City, Missouri

Iranian FM Zarif won’t attend Davos forum as organizers ‘changed agenda’ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will not attend the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos this week. The forum’s organizers had “abruptly changed its agenda,” the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, explained on Monday. The minister “was scheduled to attend… but they abruptly changed the schedule and it was not the schedule that we agreed upon,” Mousavi told reporters. “So he will not attend Davos.” Last week, Reuters reported that Zarif was no longer on the list of nearly 3,000 people due at the event. The forum is being held under the banner “Stakeholders for a Sustainable and Cohesive World.” Iranian FM Zarif won’t attend Davos forum as organizers ‘changed age...