Six people have died and 7 are missing in Germany as a result of ongoing flooding in some southern and eastern states. The most difficult situation remains in Saxony, as well as in Thuringia and part of Bavaria. In Saxony, about 17 thousand people have recently been evacuated from dangerous areas. In many places, the power supply is interrupted, phones do not work.

On Wednesday, a steady haze reappeared over the capital. As Interfax was told in the Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region, its formation was facilitated by the formation of a "barrier layer" in the atmosphere, which prevents vertical air exchange. As a result, harmful impurities are concentrated near the surface of the earth. Along with this, the smoke of forest and peat fires, which continue in the Moscow region, blows into the capital with an east wind.

Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused US President George W. Bush of using the same language as Adolf Hitler. "Pride has brought the aggressive West to total disgrace," Khamenei was quoted as saying by Iran's official news agency IRNA, as quoted by Reuters. . According to Reuters, Khamenei's statement followed reports of the transfer of al-Qaeda members arrested in Iran to Saudi Arabia .

A major car accident occurred in the Gudermes region of Chechnya, Interfax reports. On the highway Novogrozny - Bachi-Yurt collided military vehicle "Ural" under the control of Sergeant Vitaly Naryshkin and VAZ-2106, driven by a local resident Khamzat Khamsuev. According to the district administration, the driver, his 16-year-old daughter Madina and another passenger died at the scene. The passenger car turned into a pile metal and cannot be restored. The Russian sergeant was not hurt.

A thirteen-year-old resident of Bulgaria became the first victim of bad weather that hit the south of the country. She, according to Interfax, died under the rubble of a wall of a building under construction, where she sheltered from the rain. Meanwhile, in the north of the country, near the city of Silistra, as a result of strong winds and hail, almost all crops of corn, tobacco and vegetable crops were destroyed, and a number of settlements were left without electricity.

In Moscow, the victim of a thief was the wife of the military attache of the US Embassy, ​​sources in the police department of the capital told Interfax on Wednesday. The day before, a US citizen Irina Tabak, the wife of military attache Harry Tabak, applied to the police with a written statement. In a statement, the victim said that on the platform of the Belorusskaya metro station, an unknown person stole her wallet.

The US military will be invited to the territories of Iraq controlled by the Kurdish opposition, reports CNN. This was stated by the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Jalal Talabani. According to him, it is from the Kurdish territories that the US military will launch an operation against the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Having changed his surname and patronymic, the 19-year-old resident of Omsk became Andrei Vladimirovich Putin. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the 19-year-old manager Andrei Aleksandrovich Volokhin was inspired to turn into Putin only by a fiery love for his own president. Naturally, in the highest sense of the word. At the cost of two months of grueling battles with formalities in the offices of officials, the guy got the right to be called Putin Andrei Vladimirovich.

The unified authorities of the Union State of Russia and Belarus in the event of the creation of a full-fledged unified state will be built "in accordance with the constitution of the Russian Federation." Vladimir Putin announced this at a press conference after talks with his Belarusian counterpart.

Unidentified criminals robbed the office of the United Nations Agency for Refugees in the Afghan city of Ghazni. According to Reuters, three armed men broke into the office on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. They locked one foreigner and seven Afghans who worked in the office in a toilet, after which they stole radio communications and all the money stored in the premises.

The number of victims of catastrophic flooding in the Czech Republic on Tuesday evening reached 9 people, RIA Novosti reports. The latest victim of the disaster was a 76-year-old man in South Bohemia. "Big water" carried away the house in which the pensioner was. The body of the deceased was found by the police a few kilometers from the town of Strakonice. Earlier, the body of a drowned 52-year-old man was found in the same region. Two people are considered missing.

In Prague's Smichov district, the overflowing Vltava, breaking through the erected artificial barriers, began to flood houses. According to RIA Novosti, now the water has completely flooded the left bank of Prague between the Palackego and Charles Bridges. Rescuers in other areas of the city began intensive construction of new sandbag barriers. Barriers are also being erected near the building of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament.

Units of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces (KPFM) in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict have been put on high alert. "In order to prevent possible provocations on the Georgian-Abkhazian border, as well as on the territory of Abkhazia itself, units of the peacekeeping forces have been put on high alert," a representative of the KPKF headquarters told Interfax on Wednesday. justified as the situation in the region remains tense.

According to RIA Novosti, by now the gas has been cut off in the districts of Prague Smichov, Kampa, Mala Strana, Nove Mesto, Liben, Karlin. Communication problems also began in the Czech capital. Most of the subscribers are currently disconnected from the city telephone network. According to the latest data, the Masaryk railway station in Prague has been completely closed again. The capital's bus station Florets was flooded.

U.S. intelligence agencies have been monitoring activity around a plant near Baghdad that could be producing biological weapons for the past week. This was reported to the Washington Times by senior intelligence officials who wished to remain anonymous. The images transmitted by the spy satellite show, in particular, a convoy of 60 trucks.