British Prime Minister Tony Blair called the death of British Defense Ministry expert David Kelly "a terrible tragedy." According to BBC News, Blair expressed his condolences to the family and friends of David Kelly and promised that a full-scale independent judicial investigation into the scientist's murder would be held. In addition, the prime minister urged politicians and the media to forget about rumors and gossip and try to avoid cynicism.

According to the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, on Friday night, the Armenian armed forces attacked the positions of the Azerbaijani army near the village of Germechatag of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. According to PRIMA with reference to the press service of the ministry, in addition, Azerbaijani soldiers were fired upon in the village of Garakhanbeyli, Fizuli region.

Explosion on Tverskaya-Yamskaya. Frame NTV The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia charged a resident of Chechnya Zarem Muzhikhoeva, who intended to commit a terrorist attack in the center of Moscow last week. According to Interfax, referring to a source in the Prosecutor General’s Office, a failed terrorist, was charged under the articles “Terrorism”, “Intentional Murder”, “Entities for Murder”. The preventive measure remains the same - arrest.

Popular Greek singer Demis Roussos got into a car accident on the way to Athens International Airport. Roussos was injured and was unable to fly to a concert in Mongolia. According to RIA Novosti, the singer himself told the phone about the incident. According to him, he is currently undergoing treatment at home, his health condition is satisfactory.

In the Grozny region of the Chechen Republic, a young man died as a result of a lightning strike. As Interfax was informed by the district administration, this happened in the village of Novy Tsentoroi (the northeastern outskirts of Grozny). Despite the fact that the incident became immediately known and all necessary measures were taken, it was not possible to save the victim.

Three teachers of Stavropol State University have been prosecuted for bribery and fraud. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Stavropol Territory. One of the defendants is a lecturer in the course "Political History". She was detained in the building of the university while receiving 1,500 rubles for an exam from first-year students.

On Friday, a passenger car and a passenger bus collided on a highway in the Novgorod region, RIA Novosti reports. Two people were hurt. According to the departments of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the traffic police in the Novgorod region, at 16.17, at 32 km of the Veliky Novgorod-Pskov highway near the village of Lesnaya, an Oka car crashed into a Scania bus. The bus with passengers, which belonged to the Novgorod Passenger Motor Transport Enterprise No.

The audio recording of the address of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, which was broadcast by the Al-Arabiya TV channel, is most likely authentic. This was reported by representatives of the American intelligence services. However, according to them, it is impossible to speak about this with complete certainty due to the extremely low quality of the film.

US authorities released 37 prisoners held at a prison at a base in Guantanamo Bay, reports Reuters. According to the source of the agency, the released prisoners will be sent to Afghanistan. At the same time, it remains unknown why these people were released, who they are and why they were kept in prison. The base in Guantanamo Bay contains people whom America accuses of involvement in the Taliban movement in Afghanistan and various terrorist organizations.

An American soldier was killed during the fighting in Iraq, Reuters reports citing a representative of the Central Command. Where exactly the battle took place, as well as other details of what happened, the source did not specify. This brings the death toll of American soldiers in Iraq to 149.

On Friday evening, journalist Alikhan Guliyev was killed in Moscow, Ekho Moskvy reports. An unknown perpetrator shot Guliyev twice in the back as he opened the door to his apartment. According to RIA Novosti, this happened at about nine o'clock in the evening in house # 21 on Startovaya Street. The killer fired from a Makarov pistol. He dropped the gun at the crime scene. According to preliminary data, the offender fled in a red VAZ-2108 car. There is an investigation.

The human rights organization "International Helsinki Federation" calls to investigate the disappearances of hundreds of civilians in Chechnya, BBC News reports. For this, human rights activists recommend that the Russian government invite a special UN representative. Recently, human rights activists visited Chechnya and gave an extremely negative assessment of the situation in the republic.

In Ulyanovsk, more than 60 people are being checked for involvement in the preparation of a terrorist attack, ITAR-TASS reports. According to Yury Shuvalov, head of the Department of Information for Regional and Public Relations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are checking whether these people are related to the installation of a box with an explosive device found on Thursday at the Central Market of the city.

The Central Election Commission has officially registered the current President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, as a presidential candidate from the ruling New Azerbaijan Party. According to Interfax, a unanimous decision on this was made at a meeting of the CEC on Saturday. The New Azerbaijan Party submitted more than 51,750 voter signatures and other documents last week for the official registration of Heydar Aliyev as a candidate for the presidential election.

In North Ossetia, a one-story house collapsed as a result of a household gas explosion on Saturday morning. The explosion occurred at 7.10 am in the village of Mikhailovskoye in the Prigorodny district of the republic.