Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Amir Zamaniniya said that Iran is ready to cooperate with the IAEA and prove that its nuclear weapons are aimed exclusively at peaceful purposes. It is reported by Reuters. The official said Iran had nothing to hide and accused the US of artificially creating a crisis around Iran. This statement was made in Geneva at the talks of the member countries of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

A Yemeni court on Saturday sentenced to death Abed Abdel Razzaq Kamal, who killed three American missionaries last December - a Baptist hospital doctor and two of her colleagues. It is reported by Reuters. Kamal stated that he killed Christian missionaries to be closer to God. He believes that the court's decision is contrary to Sharia law, and therefore his lawyer intends to appeal.

There is a well-known theory that if an infinite number of typewriters are given to an infinite number of monkeys, sooner or later Shakespeare's works will be among the sequences of letters stuffed with them. According to the AP, at the University of Plymouth, an experiment was set up on 6 crested monkeys, who were given one computer to be torn to pieces. The experiment was set up by students of the Faculty of Information.

Pomegranate explosion in Omsk. Photo from Newsru.com In connection with the explosion of a grenade in Omsk, an involvement of the conflict participants in terrorist or criminal organizations is being checked. In an interview with ITAR-TASS, the head of the FSB department in the Omsk region Rasim Girfanov said. “If the combat grenade was simply bought in the underground weapon market, this is one, but if it belonged to any organization, this is the competence of state security agencies,” he said.

In connection with the threat of an explosion, all visitors and employees were evacuated from the Ramstor supermarket on Yartsevskaya Street, Ekho Moskvy reports. The Moscow police department explained that an unknown person threatens to blow up all the supermarkets of this network in the capital.

In the city of Basra in southern Iraq, an eridemia of cholera may begin. As reported by RIA Novosti, this was reported on Saturday by the Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya. According to the channel's correspondent, 17 children and teenagers with signs of the disease were brought to one of the hospitals in the second largest city in Iraq. Since the end of March, Basra, located on swamps and river channels, has been experiencing a shortage of clean drinking water.

Il-76. Photo from the Air Force website The hospital, which was delivered to the IL-76 survivors after the tragedy in the sky above the DR Congo, surrounded the dense ring of the military. The number of survivors, nor the number of dead are still unknown. The military pilot from the Congo said in an interview with Reuters that "many people died." Western diplomats who communicate with the authorities of the DR Congo suggest that 180 people can reach the number of dead.

Three battalions of Georgian servicemen will be sent to Iraq. According to RIA Novosti, the soldiers will guard the ammunition depots located on the territory of Iraq. According to Georgian Defense Minister David Tevzadze, 75 special forces, medics and sappers will go to Iraq "in the near future." US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Miles said that talks are already underway with the governments of Kuwait and Qatar bordering Iraq on the status of Georgian soldiers.

Explosion in the coronadel. Photo AP. On Saturday, a bomb exploded in the market of the Southern Philippine City Coronadal. As the AR reports with reference to representatives of the local police, at least 13 people were killed as a result, about 20 were injured. “The terrorists did it,” the police chief said, without specifying which ones. According to preliminary data, the bomb was without an hourly mechanism.

Quarantine has been lifted at the Zarya Hotel in the city of Blagoveshchensk, from where 25-year-old Russian Denis Soinikov was hospitalized on May 4 with suspicion of SARS. As RIA Novosti was informed on Saturday by the press service of the administration of the Amur Region, no cases were found among the hotel guests and staff.

On Wednesday, at about five o'clock in the afternoon, an accident occurred in the Moscow region, Interfax reports. Minibus "Gazelle" overturned on Schelkovskoye Highway, six kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road with passengers. One person died and five others were seriously injured. Police inspectors are currently at the scene.

Five people died last night during a fire in a residential building in the village of Krasnogvardeisky in the Stavropol Territory. As RIA "Novosti" was informed in the GUPS of the region, the victims of the fire were a husband and wife and their three young children. Neighbors tried to help - two people were carried out of the burning house. However, they no longer showed signs of life, apparently poisoned by combustion products.

In the Kemerovo region in the mine number 12 on Saturday morning there was an accident, as a result of which three people died, four were injured of varying severity. As an employee of the dispatching service of the Gosgortekhnadzor of Russia told Interfax, "in JSC Mine No. 12, during the mining of the Gorely seam in the area of ​​the second excavation block from the crosscut No.

The leader of the largest Shiite opposition group, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, returned to his homeland on Saturday after twenty years of exile, AP reports. He issued a statement calling on Iraq to become an Islamic state and reject any government proposed by "foreigners". In the same speech, the ayatollah condemned religious extremism.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister arrives in Moscow on May 15 "specially for holding consultations on Iraq." Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov told Interfax on Saturday about this. He said that he had just had a conversation with Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Deguang. According to Fedotov, on Saturday he is also scheduled to meet with French Ambassador to Russia Claude Blanchmaison. According to the deputy minister, "these meetings are dedicated to the Iraqi problem.