Israeli armored vehicles entered the Palestinian neighborhoods of Hebron, AP reported. The raid was launched after militants fired on an IDF military vehicle on the outskirts of this city and wounded four soldiers, as well as after shelling one of the Israeli quarters. After the shelling, the residents of the Jewish quarters got into a scuffle with the Palestinians and broke the windows of four cars belonging to the Palestinians.

Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Valery Loshchinin and British Government Special Representative for Georgia Sir Brian Fall discussed the situation in the Pankisi Gorge, Interfax reports citing the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daniel Keyneman and Vernon Smith. Keineman, 68, is a dual citizen of the US and Israel and works at Princeton University in the US. Smith, 75, is an American and works at George Mason University, Virginia, USA. They are awarded the prize for the use of psychological research and laboratory experiments in economics. Keineman applied the concept of "insight" in economics, which is widely used in psychology.

The State Duma at a plenary session on Wednesday adopted in the first reading amendments to the law "On State Regulation of Tariffs for Electricity and Heat in the Russian Federation." According to Interfax, 259 votes were cast in favor, 145 were against, and 1 abstained. The bill defines the powers of the government of the Russian Federation and the federal body for the regulation of natural monopolies.

A "Maryland sniper" left a tarot card at the school where he shot a 13-year-old boy, on which he wrote: "Dear policemen, I am God." It is reported by the Washington Post. For this message, the killer chose the Death card. Sources close to the investigation claim that the card was found in the woods 135 meters from the school porch. An empty cartridge case was found nearby.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', the Prime Minister of Russia, the Speaker of the Federation Council and the Mayor of Moscow have already answered the questions of the counters, Interfax reports. The meeting of His Holiness with an employee of the State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation took place on Wednesday at the working residence of the Patriarch in Chistoye lane and lasted about five minutes.

The US Department of Defense commissioned Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to develop tools and tactics to combat cyberterrorism. This will be done by the new Center for Computer and Communication Security . The Department of Defense provided the Center with a five-year grant totaling $35.5 million. The resulting developments are planned to be used against hackers and online scammers.

Boris Berezovsky sent a statement to the political council of Liberal Russia, in which he claims that his interview with the Zavtra newspaper was used only as a pretext for his removal from the party, although this decision was made long before that. Grani.Ru received a copy of this statement.

The spiritual leader of the defeated Taliban, Mullah Omar, delivered a message on the occasion of the anniversary of the start of the international antiterrorist operation in Afghanistan. According to RIA Novosti, the text of the message, written in Farsi, appeared on the website of one of the fundamentalist organizations. Omar said the jihad "against the Americans, their agents and the infidel puppet government in Afghanistan" continues in eight provinces of Afghanistan.

Deputy of the Parliament of Ingushetia Magomed-Bashir Khadzhi Aushev and his driver were found dead on Tuesday evening in the vicinity of the village of Surkhakhi in the Nazran district of Ingushetia. According to ITAR-TASS, the republic's law enforcement agencies have not yet put forward any version of what happened. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of the murder, operational and investigative measures are being carried out at the crime scene.

In Chechnya, unidentified persons fired at a checkpoint of federal forces located in the village of Chiri-Yurt, Shali district, wounded Anatoly Lodeev, police sergeant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia. As Interfax was told on Wednesday, sources in the Republican Department of Internal Affairs, the fire was fired from underbarrel grenade launchers. Measures are being taken to identify and arrest the attackers.

Israeli tanks opened fire on Tuesday at the Palestinian refugee camp in Rafah, Reuters reported. Tanks patrolled the south of the Gaza Strip. According to eyewitnesses and doctors, a 12-year-old girl was killed during the shelling, playing in front of the house. Meanwhile, Israeli army sources said the tanks opened fire in response to an attack by militants who machine-gunned the patrol and wounded two soldiers.

http://www.airwar.ru/enc/ah/mi24p.html The State Civil Aviation Service (GSGA) has suspended the operation of Mi-6 helicopters in connection with constructive shortcomings by the relevant regulatory act. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Transport of Russia, this is stated in the report of the head of the Department of State Supervision of the Security of the Migrants of the Ministry of Transport Vladimir Rudakov.

Fundraising for the construction of a monument to the wife of Genghis Khan, who lived in the late 12th - early 13th centuries, began in the Republic of Buryatia (Siberia). As the Interfax news agency was told on Wednesday at the Baikal Amazons club in Ulan-Uda, to perpetuate the memory of the eldest the wife of Genghis Khan Burte was decided by the participants of the women's movement of the city of Darkhan in Mongolia.

The administration of the University of California at San Diego has decided not to impose any sanctions on members of the radical student organization Che Cafe Collective for posting links to the website of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Administration officials initially announced that these links violated the recently enacted USA Patriot Act.