The hand of God. Roden's work. From the site www.rom.on.ca/rodin/ A sculpture of Auguste Rodin was stolen from the Museum of the Grace Arts of Buenos Aires, RIA Novosti reports. We are talking about a 15-centimeter sculptural image of a hand holding a man, one of the "hands of God". Rodin has several compositions on this topic, all of them symbolize creativity. The sculpture is estimated at $ 10 thousand, but its commercial price, according to experts, is much higher.

The World Health Organization has removed Singapore from its list of countries not recommended for visiting due to the SARS outbreak. This decision will come into effect on May 31, 2003. In Singapore, 31 people died from SARS and 206 people were ill with this disease. For 20 days, not a single new case of SARS has been recorded here. SARS has caused significant damage to the country's economy.

Photo from Newsru.com According to preliminary data, 3 people died and 8 were injured as a result of the explosion of the bus in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. This was reported to the faces of the duty unit of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs. The explosion occurred on Derbentskaya Street, the bus was blown up by a landmine. Shards were mortally wounded by the drivers of Oka and the six. The bus driver also died.

http://www.ntvru.com/world/23Oct2002/crash.html The Ukrainian parliamentary delegation made a scandal at Khabarovsk Airport, where her plane landed for refueling along the way from Hiroshima to Kyiv. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow." After refueling, the crew refused to continue the flight, because he considered a fuel poured into the tanks of the aircraft poorly. According to the pilots, with such a fuel, the plane had to inevitably explode.

The human rights organization Human Rights appealed to EU leaders not to forget the problem of human rights in Chechnya at a holiday in St. Petersburg watch. "European leaders and the US president should not forget the appalling human rights situation in Chechnya as they celebrate," Elizabeth Andersen, executive director of HRW for Europe and Central Asia, said in a statement. "The number of murders and kidnappings makes the Chechen Republic one of the most dangerous places on the ground.

The wives of the CIS heads of state visited the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg on Friday as part of a cultural program, Interfax reports. Lyudmila Putina, together with the wives of the leaders of Armenia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, as well as Cyprus, who was accompanied by Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky, began to view the exposition in the Golden Storeroom, where they got acquainted with the collection of precious jewelry.

A new attack on American servicemen has been carried out in Iraq, according to the Saudi news agency SPA, cited by RIA Novosti. According to the agency, a group of Iraqis fired RPGs and machine guns at an American patrol in the city of Al-Maqdadiya, 100 kilometers north of Baghdad (Diyali province). The Americans arrested nine people who took part in the action.

On Friday, one of the cars in Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's motorcade was involved in a car accident. As a result, two people died and one was injured. The disaster occurred in the east of the country. The Turkish prime minister himself was in another government car in the same motorcade. He was not hurt, according to ITAR-TASS.

Moscow and Ashgabat agreed to hold consultations on issues of dual citizenship, RIA Novosti reports. Vladimir Putin held a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday with President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov, press secretary of the head of the Russian state Alexei Gromov said.

A suicide note from former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was found in a private house in Milan. This document has been transferred to the archives of the National Institute of the History of the Italian Liberation Movement. The entry is dated April 27, 1945. It reads: "I was captured today, Friday, in Dongo Square, by the 52nd Garibaldi Brigade. During the arrest and after, I was treated correctly. Mussolini." He was soon executed. Experts confirmed the handwriting of the former Duce.

The North Caucasian Military Court at the Budanov trial heard the testimony of an important witness, Ramazan Sembiev, who pointed Budanov to the Kungaevs' house as the house where the sniper lives. According to RIA Novosti, Sembiev was brought to the court session from one of the prisons of Dagestan, where he is serving a term for kidnapping.

Israel will not give up Jerusalem. This, according to AFP, said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon just a few hours before meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas. "We will never give up our claim to Jerusalem! Never!" - said Sharon, speaking on television. The meeting of the Palestinian and Israeli delegations, which will discuss the terms of the adoption of the peace plan, should take place today at approximately 21.00.

Russia invites the US to join the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran. This was reported to ITAR-TASS by the Minister of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy Alexander Rumyantsev. "We made such a proposal to our American colleagues several times during the discussion at the expert level, they are still answering that we need to think about it," the head of Minatom said, in particular.

Mikhail Sinelin has been appointed Head of the Secretariat of the Prime Minister of Russia. This is reported by the Department of Government Information. On the same day, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers was appointed - Oleg Buklemishev.

According to the report "Failing with the Information Revolution" by Bruce Berkowitz, a scientist working in a "think tank" at the CIA Directorate of Intelligence, security concerns prevent the US Central Intelligence Agency from actively implementing information technology, since the CIA prefers the concept of "risk elimination" concept of "risk management".