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.

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.

On Tuesday in Kuwait, two militants fired on US marines, AP reported. As a result, one infantryman was killed and another was wounded. The Kuwaiti leadership described the attack as a "terrorist act." The Pentagon told the agency that the militants drove up in a car to a group of Marines who were conducting exercises on the uninhabited island of Failaka, and opened fire on them. Then they drove to another place (where exactly, it is not indicated.

Vladimir Kramnik beat "Deep Fritz" again and is now in the lead: 2.5:0.5 points. The program pleaded defeated on the 51st move. The fourth game of the match will take place on Thursday, after which the opponents will have a three-day break.

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.

Council of the Tambov regional branch of "Liberal Russia" is protesting against the expulsion of Berezovsky from the party. According to the Board's statement, a copy of which was received by Grani.Ru, the Board considers the decision to expel Berezovsky "hasty and thoughtless." "Questions of tactics and strategies of party activity should be the subject of discussion and discussion, and not repression against those who defend a different point of view, the authors of the statement write.

On the First Channel of Television, a story is shown about how the President of Russia and his wife answer the questions of the questionnaire of the All-Russian Population Census. Census taker Daria Afonina fills in the census sheets for Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin. It turns out, in particular, that the president, in addition to Russian, speaks German, and his wife speaks German, French and Spanish.

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.

A new 80-kilometer section of the Great Wall of China has been discovered on the southern slope of Mount Helan in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China (northwest of the country). It is reported by Interfax with reference to the local media. The wall, 7 meters high and 6.5 meters wide at the base, was built in 1531 about 40 kilometers west of the city of Yinchuan. Nine years later, during renovations, three observation towers were erected on this section of the wall.

Well-known American journalist and historian of US consumer culture Phil Patton (author of the book "Made in the USA") wrote the story of the famous "Volkswagen" - "beetle". The book titled "Bug" was published by Simon & Schuster, according to CNN. According to Patton, "Bug" is not just about the history of the car. “There are many versions of this story,” the author says.

The widow and two minor daughters of Valery Laptev, a Tu-154 flight engineer of the Russian airline Siberia, shot down over the Black Sea during Ukrainian air defense exercises, increased the amount of claims. According to RIA Novosti, lawyer Sergei Platonov during the next court session of the Pechersk Local Court of Kiev on this claim said that the relatives of the deceased flight engineer increased the amount of the claim to 2817 thousand hryvnia (about $ 530 thousand. - Ed.).

The Moscow City Duma at a meeting on Wednesday supplemented the list of proposals for the construction of works of monumental and decorative art of urban significance, including the installation of a monument to the gypsies who died during the Great Patriotic War. According to Interfax, this monument is supposed to be erected on Leningradsky Prospekt, near gypsy theater "Romen" and the hotel "Soviet" (former "Yar").

Laws relating to the reform of the electric power industry, as they are passed in the government and considered in the State Duma, "become less and less liberal," said Vyacheslav Sinyugin, deputy chairman of the board of RAO UES of Russia. It is reported by RIA Novosti. According to Sinyugin, more reservations appear in these documents, in which cases the state has the opportunity to intervene in the market.

The British Association for the Advancement of Science analyzed 40,000 jokes sent to it over the Internet from 70 countries and found the funniest joke in the world. The ABC TV channel was surprised by the result of scientists and interviewed a number of well-known comedians, satirists and comedians, including those who host various programs on this channel. The respondents reacted in much the same way: "Well, if this is the best joke in the world, .." - they said without a trace of a smile.