Hamdi Kalah, an activist of the Hamas extremist group, was killed by a missile salvo from Israeli combat helicopters in the city of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip on Thursday evening. Four people are injured. Israeli security services believe that Kalakh was involved in rocket attacks on Israeli settlements, Svoboda reports. Also on Thursday, several Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered the Gaza Strip after Hamas fired rockets into the city of Ashkelon in Israel.

The Webcaster Alliance of more than 400 companies is suing the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the five largest record companies for violating competition laws and trying to maintain a monopoly on the music market. The lawsuit follows an agreement last year by a number of small web radio companies with copyright holders to pay royalties for the use of copyright objects.

According to the Dagestan Interior Ministry, the white SAAB-9000 that exploded on Friday in Makhachkala exploded and burned down due to faulty electrical wiring and a leak of liquefied gas. According to "Gazeta.ru", the driver of the car, which had St. Petersburg numbers, was an employee of the Department of the Rostorginspektsiya for the Republic of Dagestan. Earlier it was reported that the numbers were government. The explosion occurred in the trunk when the car was moving down the street.

An attempt was made on the head of the local administration in the Grozny district of Chechnya. The officer received a gunshot wound. As RIA Novosti was informed by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, on Thursday at about 2.30 pm Moscow time in the village of Prigorodnoye, Grozny District, several unknown criminals fired machine guns at the head of the local administration, Dalilov, and a local resident who was next to him.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) failed to make a final decision on providing cheap medicines to the world's poorest countries. Although a compromise draft agreement between the United States and four developing countries has already been prepared by the WTO intellectual property council, the WTO General Council has postponed the final decision due to new disagreements, Svoboda reports.

Recordings of telephone conversations of people who were in the WTC at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks have been released in the United States, AP reports. The publication was court-ordered by the Port Authority of New York, which owned the World Trade Center buildings. Initially, the department, which lost 84 of its employees on that terrible day, was against the publication of the 2,000-page document, arguing that it would be an insensitive act towards the families of the victims.

In the near future, the "Regulations on the Ministry of Railways of the Russian Federation" will be sent to the Russian government. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Railways, a conciliation meeting was held in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss the draft resolution.

In Voronezh, one person died and several were injured as a result of a hurricane that swept over the city on Thursday evening. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the dispatch service of the main department for civil defense and emergency situations of the Voronezh region. According to rescuers, one woman died on the spot from electric shock, several people were admitted to the city hospitals with injuries of varying severity.

Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi. Photo by AP from the site www.russiajournal.com Russian President Vladimir Putin went on Friday on a working visit to Italy. At the invitation of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, the Russian president will visit the island of Sardinia, Interfax reports. On this island, Berlusconi, one of the richest people in Italy, has its own villa, on which two daughters of Putin had rested last year, Reuters recalls.

On Friday there was an explosion in the center of Makhachkala. As the correspondent of RIA Novosti was told in the rescue service "01", a car was blown up on Engels Street and is currently on fire. According to Interfax, a white Volvo-940 with government numbers of the Republic of Dagestan exploded. As RIA "Novosti" was told by members of the operative group of the Organized Crime Control Department working at the scene, the man who was driving jumped out of the car just before the explosion.

Prototype of the Electronic Book from Hewlett Packard. Photo BBC News In the laboratories of the company, Hewlett Packard, has developed a prototype of the e -book, which once again prophesies the fate of the "graveshch" libraries in their usual form. The thickness of the new device, as BBC News reports, is only 1 cm. The screen occupies most of the surface of the e -book. On the sides of it there are sensory strips, with the help of which you can "flip out" the book.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) responded to a lawsuit filed against her by an anonymous user of the KaZaA file-sharing system and said that the plaintiff is a serious copyright infringer, and therefore has no chance of winning the case. On August 21, a Californian p2p user filed a lawsuit, accusing the RIAA of unconstitutional actions that violated the plaintiff's right to privacy.

In Vladivostok, a Fabric store was blown up at night. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press service of the city administration. According to the press service, the attackers smashed the window of the store, threw several cans of fuel into it, and then an unidentified explosive device. As a result of the explosion and fire, the store was completely destroyed. According to preliminary data, the damage is more than 1 million rubles. A criminal case has been opened on this fact.

http://www.stel.ru/museum/costin/kostin8.htm#kaplan 65 years ago, on August 30, 1918, in Moscow at the Michelson factory, Lenin was seriously wounded with two shots. Fanny Kaplan, associated with the Socialist Revolutionary Party Party, shot him. On the same day in Petrograd, student Leonid Cannegiser killed the head of the local Cheka Moses Uritsky.

The traffic police of Moscow announces changes in the organization of traffic for the coming weekend and the first week of September in connection with festive and sporting events. It is reported by RIA Novosti.