George Bush. Photo by ar The US authorities gave the official permission of the CIA to kill American citizens who collaborate with al-Qaeda. Such a right is given to special services in accordance with a secret resolution on the fight against terrorism signed by the US President after September 11, AP reports. According to representatives of the White House, to kill Americans, special services are allowed only in extreme cases, when all other methods of struggle will be exhausted.

Homemade power explosive device defused on Thursday in the Zavodskoy district Grozny, was 30 kilograms of TNT. "The improvised explosive device was made from anti-tank mine MON-200 and several TNT blocks. Radio-controlled landmine that was supposed to explode today in the evening or tomorrow morning, by its power it could destroy not only the building of the Zavodskoy District Department of Internal Affairs, but also the surrounding buildings.

Congressman Curt Weldon, who headed the US Congressional delegation that visited Minsk on December 3-4 and met with Alexander Lukashenko, asked the US Embassy in Minsk to circulate the following statement dictated by him: "I categorically refute the information contained in the press release President Lukashenka of Belarus dated December 4. I am appalled that such a shameless step could be taken and such outrageous lies made public. visit of goodwill.

In the Ingush village of Upper Alkun, as a result of explosions of artillery shells, three houses were destroyed and two tractors were damaged. As Interfax was informed by sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, the explosions occurred on Wednesday evening at about 21.00. There were no victims or injured. According to sources, the shells were fired from a military unit temporarily stationed near the village of Galashki in the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia.

In Moscow, a 14-year-old schoolboy beat a citizen of Tajikistan with a stick, the victim died in the hospital from his injuries. This was reported to Interfax on Thursday by sources in the police department of the capital. On Tuesday evening, 28-year-old Jamshed Ismatov, a native of Tajikistan, was taken to the 36th city hospital from house 57 on 15th Parkovaya Street. Doctors found the victim had a closed craniocerebral injury and numerous bodily injuries.

http://www.lithium.it/dream0007p1.htm Specialists from the University of Buffalo (New York) Pashalis Alexandridis and Aristides Docoslis took an important step towards nanotechnology. They have developed a new assembly method of three -dimensional structures from nanoparticles, which can be used to rapidly produce various nano -sized tools and machines. To manipulate particles, they used a generator of heterogeneous electric fields with special microelectrodes.

In Ukraine, four children born in 1990, 1993 and 1996 fell through thin lake ice. It was not possible to save them. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the press center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, the day before the bodies of all the drowned were found and raised to the surface. The children's deaths are being investigated.

Filming NTV On December 4, the conscript Arthur Volkov, a "refuser" from military service by conviction, disappeared at the Timiryazevsky military enlistment office. This was announced by "Echo of Moscow" by the chairman of the movement "Against violence" Sergey Sorokin. According to him, a month ago, Volkov wrote a statement with a request to replace military service with an alternative.

Early on Thursday morning, an explosion rocked the Macedonian consulate in Karachi, the former capital of Pakistan. As a result, three people died, according to Reuters. According to other sources, two were killed. One of the victims of the explosion was a consulate guard, the second victim was a woman. At the time of the explosion, none of the diplomatic staff of the consulate was in the building.

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Two cases of attacks on foreigners were recorded in Moscow over the past day, sources in the police department of the capital told Interfax on Thursday. Three Muscovites - 18-year-old Alexei Kagadeev, as well as 16-year-old Artem Grishin and Vladimir Dmitrenko, beat up 29-year-old Cameroonian citizen Rudolf Tang on Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyansky Street. Medical assistance to the victim was provided on the spot.

Explosions rocked the Indonesian city of Makassar on the island of Sulawesi on Thursday. According to AP, the first explosive device went off at a McDonald's eatery located in a shopping center. As a result, three people were killed and two more were injured. The second explosion occurred two hours later, at a car dealership owned by Indonesian Welfare Minister Yusuf Kalle. Four cars were damaged. No casualties have been reported.

An English Harrier fighter plane crashed on takeoff. According to the Times, citing a statement from the British Ministry of Defense, one of the two pilots died. The incident took place at Wittering Air Force Base in Cambridgeshire.

In Abkhazia, in the city of Tkvarcheli, the mother of the vice-president of the Slavneft oil company, Jumber Tkebuchava, was kidnapped. This was reported by Interfax with reference to sources in the law enforcement agencies of Abkhazia. According to sources, several unknown criminals entered the house of Tkebuchava's mother and took her to unknown direction. Sources noted that the kidnapping took place a few days ago and so far no ransom demands have been made by the kidnappers.

Photo by ar On Wednesday, the UN Security Council extended the effect of the Humanitarian program "Oil in exchange for food" in Iraq for another six months, reports Reuters. In addition, the Security Council will revise the list of goods that Iraq can purchase money from the sale of oil for a month. The United States asked to extend the program for only two weeks, but they removed their demand under the pressure of the remaining 14 members of the UN Security Council.