Suspects appeared in a series of murders in the north of Moscow. Currently, the investigation is considering versions according to which the murders were committed by several criminals. This was announced by the former First Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow Yuri Sinelshchikov. According to the former deputy prosecutor, the investigation also determined the circle of persons suspected of committing murders, but no charges have yet been brought against any of them.

In Iraq, a military base in the town of Al-Hilla, where Polish troops are stationed, was fired upon. There are no injured or killed among the Poles, Eugeniusz Mlechak, spokesman for the Polish Ministry of Defense, told reporters on Friday. According to RIA Novosti, 600 Polish soldiers are currently stationed in Iraq. By the end of August, another 1,600 troops will arrive in Iraq.

Two explosions rocked the Turkish city of Ankara on Friday. As a result, 16 police officers were injured. According to AP, they were all injured when the second bomb detonated. The police went to the park, adjacent to one of the buildings of the Prosecutor General's Office, after the first explosion sounded there. They found a bag with a second explosive device, which one of the expert officers tried to deactivate without wearing a protective suit.

On Friday, the Arabic channel Al-Jazeera aired another audio recording of Saddam Hussein's speech. It is reported by Reuters. The former dictator calls on the Iraqi people to expel American troops from the country. "Only the actions of dedicated people who fight and fight can drive out the invaders," he said. "Our faith is strong that God will lead us to victory."

In Novorossiysk, due to the prevailing weather conditions, a state of emergency has been introduced. This was reported to RIA Novosti at the headquarters of the city administration for emergencies. The city administration asks city residents and guests to be especially careful when moving along the streets and refrain from traveling by private transport. If necessary, call the unified dispatch service "01".

From August 1 in Moscow, the subscription fee for the telephone is increasing. According to the press service of the Moscow City Telephone Network, the rise in price will be the second and last this year. Now Muscovites and budget organizations will pay 140 rubles a month plus sales tax instead of the current 126 rubles (132 rubles 80 kopecks with tax).

Krasnoyarsk physicist Valentin Danilov will run for the State Duma in the Yenisei constituency number 48 with the support of the Union of Right Forces. This decision was made by the regional conference of the party, reports Gazeta.ru. In May 2000, the FSB initiated a criminal case against the scientist. He was charged with disclosing information constituting a state secret. The scientist pleaded not guilty, arguing that the information he used was taken from open sources.

Roman Abramovich. Photo AFP In the near future, a criminal case may be instituted against a number of managers and shareholders of the Sibneft oil company. About this, according to Gazeta.ru, became known to Interfax from informed sources. According to the sources of the agency, the object of a criminal investigation among others can be a major shareholder of the company, the governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Roman Abramovich.

On Thursday, the International Tribunal in The Hague sentenced Bosnian doctor Milomir Stakic, accused of participating in genocide during the Bosnian war in the 90s, reports BBCNews. Stakic was one of those who set up concentration camps in northwestern Bosnia, where thousands of Muslims and Croats were martyred in 1992. He is sentenced to life imprisonment, as demanded by prosecutors. Stakic himself denies all the charges against him.

The new crew of the airline "Vertical-T" on Friday went to the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, in order to continue the flight of the Mi-26 helicopter detained by the Sudanese authorities. The airline's Moscow office told Interfax on Friday that the crew members of the Mi-26 took off from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport at 3:05 pm on Friday on a Jordanian Airlines flight to Amman, from where they will fly to Khartoum on August 3 at 1:10 am local time.

Photo from Newsru.com In the Moscow Bittsev Forest Park near the Chertanovka River, the body of a murdered woman was discovered. This is the 13th registered case over the past month, ITAR-TASS reported on Friday in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. The personality of the murdered and the cause of death are established. It is known that she looks 40-45 years old, height 160 cm. Exactly a month ago, the murder of a woman was registered in the north-eastern part of the city.

Yuri Budanov's lawyer Alexei Dulimov filed a cassation appeal with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation against the verdict handed down on July 25 by the North Caucasus District Military Court. He announced this on Friday in an interview with ITAR-TASS. The defender considers "illegal and unfounded" the court's rulings on the charges against his client - "abuse of power" and "abduction of a person". According to the lawyer, Budanov had the right to acquittal under these articles.

For more than five hours, firefighters fought the fire that engulfed the building of the Vietnamese market in Moscow. As a result, the fire was extinguished. This was reported to RIA Novosti by an employee of the Moscow State Fire Service. "At 20.45, information was received about the elimination of the fire in the market," the agency's interlocutor said. There are currently no reports of casualties, she said.

On Thursday, the Israeli Knesset adopted immediately in the second and third readings amendments to the law on citizenship, according to which residents of Plestina who married Israeli citizens will not be able to obtain either Israeli citizenship or permanent residence status. 53 members of parliament voted in favor of these amendments, 25 voted against. Opponents of the innovation called the amendments "racist" and "inhumane," according to Haaretzdaily.

In the Tatar Strait, border guards detained the Russian trawler Vasan for poaching. As RIA Novosti was told on Friday in the press center of the Pacific Regional Border Directorate of the FSB of Russia, the inspection team found more than 45 tons of boiled-frozen crab on board the Sakhalin trawler. 40 tons of pollock, 12 tons of herring and 2,200 crab traps were also found in the holds of the vessel. The captain of the vessel did not have permits for fishing.