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The Palestinian group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Al-Arabiya TV channel. According to the Israeli Channel Nine, the direct perpetrator was an 18-year-old resident of one of the camps in the West Bank of Jordan. An explosion at an open-air market in Tel Aviv on Monday killed 5 people and injured more than 30 people.
Palestinian Authority security officials are conducting an investigation at Yasser Arafat's residence in Ramallah, during which they are interrogating service personnel, that is, those who were involved in preparing food for the Palestinian leader over the past fortnight. The head doctor of the clinic in Ramallah, Hosni al-Atari, ruled out the possibility of Arafat being poisoned by traditional poisons, because the patient did not have symptoms characteristic of such cases. Al-Atari, however, said that it is necessary to wait for the results of studies by French military toxicologists, who have the medical equipment necessary for such tests.
Another day of election campaign has passed in the United States. At the finish line, the contenders for the White House - its current head, Republican George W. Bush and Democratic Senator John Kerry - are frantically fighting for votes. George W. Bush visited Florida, where the outcome of the last presidential election was decided. Speaking to voters, Bush said that his tactics in the fight against terrorism had paid off.
In Uruguay, as a result of elections held on Sunday, for the first time in more than a hundred years, a president representing left-wing political forces was elected. The final results have not yet been summed up, but there is no longer any doubt that the candidate of the left coalition, Tabare Vázquez, received the required number of votes. By profession he is an oncologist. Formerly mayor of the country's capital, Montevideo.