Former US Vice President Al Gore has sharply condemned the policy of his former opponent in the presidential election - George W. Bush - towards Iraq, reports Reuters. According to Gore, the Bush administration's policies are dangerous for the US: an attack on Iraq will force many allies to turn their backs on the US and disrupt the war on terror. Gore called the idea of ​​inflicting preemptive strikes on Iraq "cowboy".

Photo by ar The UN Security Council approved a resolution on Tuesday in the Middle East, reports Reuters. The resolution contains a demand for Israel to stop the siege of the residence of the chairman of the Palestinian National Administration of Yasir Arafat in Ramalla. Israel also calls on to return the troops to the positions that they held until September 2000. The Council of Ministers also spoke in the end of the destruction of the civil infrastructure of PNU and its security services.

According to updated data, during the IDF raid in Gaza, 9 Palestinians were killed and another 24 were injured, Reuters reports, citing statements by Palestinian doctors. IDF units, supported by helicopters, entered the city early Tuesday morning. Clashes began. The Israelis advanced 1 km deep into the city and managed to blow up a steel workshop and the house of one of the suspected terrorists.

Three unknown young people attacked the famous film director Vladimir Bortko at the entrance of his house on Vasilievsky Island around 7 pm on Monday, Interfax reports citing the St. Petersburg police department. The director was beaten and his purse was stolen, in which there was a wallet with 50 rubles and a mobile phone. Now Bortko is in the Intercession Hospital with head bruises and concussion. Doctors assess his condition as moderate.

In Moscow, Vadim Roshchin, a famous actor and performer of his own songs, film director, author of films about Vladimir Vysotsky, died last Monday in his own apartment, Interfax reports. He was 36 years old. The funeral will take place on Wednesday at the Vagankovsky cemetery. It will be possible to say goodbye to Roshchin at the Cinema House at 14.00.

In North Ossetia, September 26 was declared a day of mourning for the victims of the natural disaster, Ekho Moskvy reports. Such a decree was signed by the President of the Republic Alexander Dzasokhov. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of North Ossetia, 9 dead have been found by this morning, 95 people are missing. As before, nothing is known about the fate of the film crew of Sergei Bodrov Jr.

The Interpol Bureau in Russia did not receive a request from the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation to put businessman Boris Berezovsky on the international wanted list, Interfax reports. "Until now, we have not received any requests from the Prosecutor General's Office to put Boris Berezovsky on the international wanted list.

Sergey Bodrov Jr. Photo from the site www.brat2.film.ru. Grani.ru collage In the Karmadon Gorge of North Ossetia, from 8.00 Moscow time, on Tuesday, search and rescue operations were resumed at the place of gathering of the glacier, Interfax reports. The representative of the operational headquarters to eliminate the consequences of a natural disaster informed the agency that, according to official figures, eight bodies of the dead were found, 27 people were saved. There are 95 people missing.

Oksana Fedorova, who won this year's Miss Universe beauty pageant, has herself relinquished her title, the Miss Universe organization said on Monday.

Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Smirnov said that the participants of the opposition protest on September 16 in Kyiv were paid money, Interfax reports. The minister added that he had evidence of this. "Some of the detainees called the action not burdensome a way to make money," Smirnov said during his speech in the Verkhovna Rada.

The US stock index Nasdaq Composite fell on Monday to a record low for the last 6 years (since the fall of the indices on September 12, 1996). Its decline was 3%, and the final figure - 1184.93 points. The Dow Jones fell 1.6%. In Europe, the decline was even more significant - shares fell by 5% on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and by 3.1% in London, AP reports.

Former Secretary of the Russian Security Council Ivan Rybkin said that he worked out a version of a peace agreement on Chechnya during negotiations with representatives of Chechen separatists Aslan Maskhadov. He said this in an interview with Novye Izvestia. "Many options for peace agreements have already appeared, so we worked out with Akhmed Zakayev in Zurich is one such option on the basis of the Khasavyurt agreements,” Rybkin said. “Shevardnadze approved this option.

As a result of a car explosion in the main city of the Basque Country - Bilbao - two people were killed, reports AP. According to preliminary data, the dead were members of the separatist terrorist group ETA, who tried to mine this car. The mayor of the city, Inaka Azkuna, said that at the scene of the explosion, police found a radio device with which the criminals intended to set off the bomb, fake license plates and a gun.

The Russian delegation, which arrived in Tiraspol the other day, expects to reach an agreement with the Transnistrian authorities on the unblocking of the railway lines, where trains with weapons and military equipment have been stationed since this spring. This Granyam.Ru said a source in the Federation Council.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations managed to break into the alleged location of the film crew of Sergei Bodrov, IA "Ural-Press-Inform" reports. More than 500 people and more than 100 pieces of equipment, including helicopters, are involved in search and rescue operations. Sergei Shoigu personally led the rescue and search operations. Nevertheless, according to experts, the chances of finding survivors are now practically reduced to zero.