Four people died and three were injured in a car accident in the Altai Territory (Siberia). This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Main Department of the Territory for Civil Defense and Emergencies. The accident happened on Tuesday on a section of the federal highway Pospelikha-Rubtsovsk. Two VAZ cars, moving at high speed, collided. As a result of the collision, three people died on the spot, another victim, a 19-year-old girl, died in the Pospelikha district hospital.

The vote in the Security Council on the lifting of sanctions against Libya has been postponed to Friday, Reuters reports. The decision came after France threatened to veto the new resolution. Paris needs more time to finalize with Tripoli the issue of compensation for the families of the French killed in the 1989 UTA plane bombing in Niger. Then 170 people died.

Two more people who died in the Ka-32 helicopter crash have been discovered, RIA Novosti was told at the Russian Emergencies Ministry. "At 10.10 Moscow time, two bodies were found. Work is underway to lift them out of the crevice where they were found," a spokesman for the ministry said. Thus, the rescuers managed to find the remains of everyone who was on board the Ka-32 at the time of the tragedy.

Natalya Krachkovskaya was expected in Kyiv last week: there she was supposed to star in the New Year's project "Chasing Two Hares". However, instead of filming, the actress ended up in the hospital, writes the newspaper "Life". Natalya Leonidovna had a hypertensive crisis. At the end of the week she was discharged home, but she was categorically forbidden to work.

A 17-year-old girl was attacked in the north-east of Moscow. The offender inflicted several stab wounds on her, ITAR-TASS reports. The girl managed to fight off the attacker and run out of the park. The incident happened on Tuesday evening in the forest belt of the Botanical Garden. Passers-by called an ambulance, which took the girl to the Sklifosovsky Institute. She was operated on there and now, according to doctors, the girl's life is out of danger.

On Wednesday, a major car accident occurred in the Indian state of Gujarat, as a result of which 18 people died and 11 were injured. Most of the dead are women and children aged 7 to 14, RIA Novosti reports. According to local police, the tragedy occurred in the city of Iqbalpur in the north of the state. On one of the roads, a tire burst on a truck moving at high speed.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called on the governments of Israel and the PNA to show responsibility and stop the violent confrontation. This is stated in a statement received by RIA Novosti from the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Yakovenko. "In a very tense situation, we call on the leadership of Israel and the PNA to act with the utmost responsibility. We cannot allow extremists to dictate their will," Yakovenko said.

A showcase not far from the cafe Hill. Photo by ar 5 hours after the explosion of the bus stop in the Rishon-Le-campaign (not far from Tel Aviv), the suicide bomber blew himself up in one of the cafes of Jerusalem. According to Ha'aretz, at least 7 people were killed as a result of the second attack, another 47 were injured. Seven wounded are in serious condition. The total number of victims of two terrorist attacks is 15 dead, 80 wounded.

Lawyers warn that if Russia changes the law in the way recommended by the FATF, the presumption of innocence can be forgotten here. about it writes Vedomosti . The FATF assures that it will not require the literal implementation of its advice, but our financial intelligence officers have already promised to fully implement them into Russian legislation by the summer of 2004.

In St. Petersburg, location shooting of the series "Poor Nastya" has begun, which is being filmed by the Russian company "A.Media" and Hollywood's Sony Pictures, which worked on such popular series as "Santa Barbara" and "Sex and the City". "This is the first time in the history of Russian television when a well-known Hollywood company is involved in the production of a domestic series. American director Harry Boweny and producer Eric Previn came to Russia to work on the project.

Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahhaf, who became everyone's favorite during the days of the war, is returning to television. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Emirati newspaper Al-Ittihad. The former minister will be the presenter on Abu Dhabi Satellite TV and will air on 17 September.

The official premiere of the film "Return", which became the laureate of the Venice Film Festival, will take place at the end of September, director Andrei Zvyagintsev told Izvestia. However, this screening will be semi-closed, while the film will be released in wide release in October or November, Zvyagintsev said. "I'm really looking forward to this. Because in fact I made this film for the Russian audience," the director admitted.

on Tuesday in London's Bow Street Magistrate's Court, immediately after the completion of the meeting on the Zakayev case As it became known to Granyam.ru, short technical hearings on the extradition case of Boris Berezovsky took place .

The prosecutor's office of the Tver region was unable to bring charges against the region's governor, Vladimir Platov, on Wednesday morning. As Interfax was informed in the information and public relations department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the Tver governor did not appear at the regional prosecutor's office by the appointed time - 10 o'clock on Wednesday, as a result of which the planned indictment did not take place.

The first metal chapel in Russia was built in Stary Oskol, Belgorod Region. On September 11, the residents of Starooskol will celebrate this significant event. As RIA "Novosti" was told in the Church-Scientific Center of the Moscow Patriarchate "Orthodox Encyclopedia", the unique chapel was assembled by the craftsmen of the Starooskolsky plant of decorative structures. It took them seven thousand hand-made forged parts and eight days of work to build an unusual temple.