The level of the Danube within Bratislava dropped by almost 5 m by Tuesday morning, and the water flow is stabilizing and returning to normal throughout the entire Slovak section of this largest European river. According to RIA Novosti, the mayor of the Slovak capital, Josef Moravchik, thanked all the residents of the city who took part in the fight against the water element.

Abbas Halaf. Photo AP Iraq is not for the first to break out confidential information regardless of the interests of the partner. In 1993, Moscow diligently hid the fact of the visit of the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister of Aziz to Russia (at that time it was still considered indecent to receive such guests), but in Baghdad, Moscow had to make excuses that the visit, they say, was private. So it happened this time.

On Monday, the IDF left Bethlehem, according to Ha'aretz. Thus, the plan for the withdrawal of troops from the territories of the PA, proposed by Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, and called "First Gaza", began to be implemented. According to this plan, the withdrawal of Israeli troops should begin with Bethlehem and Gaza - relatively quiet cities. In return, the Palestinian authorities undertake to fight terrorists on their own.

The water level in the Danube in the Hungarian current on Tuesday began to return to normal. In Budapest, the water reached a maximum of 845 centimeters, causing minor damage. City officials believe that by the end of the week, the Danube within the capital will finally return to its usual course. Meanwhile, in areas north of Budapest, about 2,000 local residents who were evacuated before the spill began to return to their homes.

According to the flight sheet, there were 127 passengers and five crew members on board the Mi-26 helicopter, NTVRU reports citing Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky. "Several dozen dead and injured were evacuated from the scene, the exact number of victims is still unknown," Fridinsky said. According to him, the crashed helicopter fell into a minefield. It is for this reason that access to the crashed helicopter is difficult.

Early in the morning, a special train of the DPRK chairman crossed the Russian-Korean border at Khasan station in Primorsky Krai. According to ORT, almost the entire local leadership came to meet Kim Jong Il. The main purpose of the visit of the head of the DPRK is to study the experience of the Far East, accumulated in the course of market reforms carried out in Russia. Tomorrow Kim Jong Il is expected in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

The Moscow district military court on Tuesday upheld the verdict of the Naro-Fominsk garrison military court handed down on June 25 to former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko , co-author of the book The FSB Blows Up Russia . Thus, according to RIA Novosti, the higher court dismissed the cassation appeal of Litvinenko's lawyer, Mikhail Marov.

Governor of the Magadan Region Valentin Tsvetkov believes that the regional Duma's proposal to increase the presidential term in Russia to 7 years could lead to consequences that contradict the democratic nature of the country's Constitution.

According to the head of the administration of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, there were 132 people on board the Mi-26 helicopter that crashed on Monday, 39 of whom survived. The head of the Chechen administration told Interfax this information on Tuesday while visiting the crash site of the Mi-26 transport helicopter. In an interview with Interfax, Kadyrov stressed that one should not rush to conclusions about the causes of the disaster until the commission completes its work.

Medical examiners have not been able to determine the cause of death of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, two 10-year-old girls from the town of Soham who went missing two weeks ago. It is reported by the Air Force. Doctors will conduct new analyzes of the bodies, and the results of these analyzes will be known only in a few weeks.

The chef of one of the Vietnamese restaurants died from the bite of a sea snake, which he was going to cook. The incident took place in the city of Haiphong (50 km east of Hanoi) at a restaurant specializing in sea snake dishes, EFE agency reports. Twenty-two-year-old Le Hong Kyong was bitten on the left hand while removing a snake from a jar. The chef, who died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, was not wearing protective plastic gloves, the restaurant owner said.

A high-ranking representative of the headquarters of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus told the RIA Novosti news agency that, according to preliminary data, a technical malfunction became the cause of the disaster. The pilot reported a fire in the engine, a headquarters spokesman said.

Russian generals, now who are members of the Federation Council, in an interview with Interfax in Tuesday put forward several versions of the death of a military transport helicopter that crashed in Chechnya last Monday. Mi-26 crashed at 16:55 Moscow time on August 19 at a few hundred meters from the helipad in Khankala. By According to preliminary official data, more than 100 people died military personnel.

Military experts cite as one of the possible reasons that led to the mass death of servicemen aboard the Mi-26 helicopter in Chechnya, jamming of the cargo compartment doors during a hard landing. According to preliminary data from military sources, the death toll could exceed 120 people, but there is no official confirmation of these data yet.

To date, the bodies of 23 dead have been found at the crash site of the Mi-26 helicopter that crashed in the suburbs of Grozny, a representative of the headquarters of the Joint Group of Forces in the North Caucasus told Interfax. "The search for the rest of the dead continues while they are considered missing. Now in the military hospital of Khankala there are 27 wounded passengers and five crew members of the crashed helicopter.