On Monday afternoon, in the center of Moscow, an attack was made on collectors of the National Bank for Business Development. As a law enforcement source told Interfax, the attack took place at about 13:10 in Furmanny Lane, when the collectors, having taken the money from the Elsior M company, were returning to the car. As a result of the shelling, one collector, 39-year-old Eduard Kozlov, was killed, and the second, 48-year-old Oleg Uvarov, was seriously wounded.

Iraq will be able to make a nuclear bomb in a few months within a few months if it gets enough radioactive materials. Such the conclusion is contained in a 75-page report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, published on Monday in London, according to BBC. Its authors believe that while Baghdad does not have sufficient volumes of fissile materials to manufacture nuclear weapons.

The jury of the 59th Venice Film Festival on Sunday summed up the results and distributed awards. The main prize of the festival, the Golden Leo, went to Peter Mullan for the picture of the "Sisters Magdalene" - in full accordance with the prophecies of most critics. The “sisters of Magdalene” called the inhabitants of the shelters at the monasteries, where they sent “dysfunctional”, as they say, girls - either becoming mothers without marriage, or victims of rape, or simply too seductive.

Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction, it does not pose any threat to its neighbors, Scott Ritter, former head of the group of international inspectors of the UN Commission on Iraq, said at a meeting with members of the Iraqi parliament. It is reported by Euronews. According to Reeter, Iraq has completed 90 to 95% of its disarmament program in the course of 7 years of work and the stay of commissions of inspectors in this country.

Nikolai Glubokov, head of the federal state unitary enterprise "Directorate of Passenger Communications" of the Ministry of Railways of Russia, was killed in Moscow on Monday morning. As Interfax was told by sources in the police department of the capital, at about 07:45 a service car drove up to Glubokov's house at 19 Sokolina Gora 5th Street to pick up the official for work. However, he did not come out at the usual time.

One of the terminals of Kennedy International Airport in New Jersey was evacuated on Monday. According to the AP, aircraft flights were stopped for several hours after a "security breach" was announced. After the police and dogs thoroughly searched Terminal 7, the evacuees and staff were allowed to return. Details of the incident have not yet been disclosed.

Over the past three days, 71 fires on an area of ​​266 hectares have been extinguished in the Moscow region, Yury Vorobyov, First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, said at a meeting of the leadership of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the administration of the Moscow Region on Monday. This is reported by Interfax. "There are practically no open fires.

US Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that the US has the right to be the first to strike at Iraq, since the country is actively developing nuclear weapons. AR reports. "On the one hand, we feel vulnerable after 9/11, but on the other hand, we have evidence that Saddam is resuming a program that the UN Security Council banned 10 or 11 years ago. We are confident that the US will be his target," he said. Cheney.

The Philippine police have been put on high alert. The reason for this is a possible terrorist attack against the US embassy in Manila, which is being prepared by Islamist radicals with the support of Al-Qaeda. This is reported by CNN, citing its sources in the Philippine intelligence services.

American and British planes attacked Iraqi territory. According to Reuters, citing the US military, air defense facilities in southern Iraq, in a no-fly zone, were attacked.

The leader of the first round of the gubernatorial elections, Alexander Uss, regrets that the mayor of Krasnoyarsk, Petr Pimashkov, took only fourth place. At a briefing following the results of the first round, Uss said that he did not intend to change the tactics of the election campaign - he is sure that only a citizen of Krasnoyarsk should rule the region, Regnum reports.

The Roman Catholic Church condemned the Venice Film Festival, which ended on Sunday, for awarding the top prize to Peter Mullan's The Magdalen Sisters. It is reported by Reuters. "I feel unspeakable pain," Cardinal Ersilio Tonini said on Monday. "This event does not add honor to the Venice Festival.

According to Newsweek magazine, only Israel, Australia and Great Britain expressed their support for the war in Iraq. The rest of the US allies in the anti-terrorist coalition expressed either restrained doubts about the legality of such a military operation, or disapproval. Bahrain and Qatar may allow the US to use their naval bases to fight Saddam, although they have officially condemned US intentions to fight in Iraq.

During the first round of elections for the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, no serious remarks or violations were recorded, said Alexander Veshnyakov, chairman of the CEC. This is reported by Interfax. "Our experts note that in comparison with the previous elections, the election commissions worked more clearly and in an organized manner. No excesses were allowed in the direction of the administrative resource," Veshnyakov said.

In Moscow, on Monday night, a civil memorial service was held on Guryanov Street in memory of the victims of the explosion that occurred exactly three years ago. According to Interfax, about a hundred people gathered at the place where the blown up house stood - former residents and relatives of the dead. They lit candles and laid flowers at the monument erected at the site of the tragedy. Children brought soft toys there.