Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Sunday that he intends to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq as soon as possible. According to Reuters, Zapatero instructed the Spanish military command to begin the withdrawal of troops from the Persian Gulf region as soon as possible. According to the prime minister, this decision was made because he could not ignore the will of the Spanish people. The contingent of Spanish troops in Iraq is 1300 people.

Mark Dutra. Photo by ar On Monday, in the Belgian city of Arlon, in the process of pedophile-killer, Mark Dutra, one of his victims, reports, reports the Air Force. The 20-year-old Sabin Darden, who was abducted at the age of 12 and kept in the basement for 80 days, turned in the courtroom with a question to the accused. "Why didn't you kill me?" - exclaimed the young woman. The 47-year-old former electrician replied that he was not going to do this.

Twelve rides will be dismantled in the Moscow region based on the results of the inspection, RIA Novosti reports. This was announced by the head of the Main Department of State Administrative and Technical Supervision of the region Nikolai Pishchev at a meeting of the Governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov, the governor's press service reports on Monday. According to him, all 89 attractions located in more than 20 municipalities of the region were checked last week.

Lawyer Igor Trunov, representing the interests of the victims of the collapse of the roof of the Transvaal Park, filed a petition to involve the government of Moscow as a co-respondent in the case. In this regard, the consideration of the claims of the victims in the Cheryomushkinsky court has been postponed to May 7, RIA Novosti reports.

The well-known crime boss Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Yaponchik, was expected to be released on Monday from a prison in Pennsylvania in the United States. However, as his former lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky told Interfax, according to some reports, the release may not take place. Ivankov was arrested in the United States in June 1995 and sentenced to 115 months in prison, that is, he had to spend about 9 and a half years behind bars.

Spanish military in Iraq. Photo from the site www.mmorning.com The Spanish military can leave Iraq for fifteen days. According to Sky News, this was stated by the representative of the Foreign Ministry of Egypt. According to him, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos informed his Egyptian colleague Ahmed Maher.

In Pyatigorsk, a criminal case has been initiated against teenagers who destroyed Jewish graves at the Novogoryachevodskoye cemetery. As a representative of the press service of the Pyatigorsk Department of Internal Affairs told Interfax on Monday, at the end of last week, at the cemetery site where Jewish graves are located, two 16-year-olds who inhaled glue and their 19-year-old friend damaged 14 graves by scattering tombstones, reports Gazeta.Ru .

The chairman and CEO of McDonald's Corp. died Monday morning. Jim Cantalupo. The 60-year-old businessman died of a sudden heart attack, according to Reuters. Charlie Bell, who previously served as president of the company, was named acting CEO on Tuesday. Cantalupo worked for the company for 28 years. He became Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO in 2003.

LDEF satellite in orbit. Photo from the site Airbase.ru/space/usa/launch/sts/51/d2/ Over 100 thousand metal particles are in the orbit of the Earth, representing a serious danger to spacecraft. The source of these particles with a diameter of 5 to 50 mm was satellites of the Soviet era. Now the particles are concentrated in orbit 900 km above the ground. These are the orbit of satellites producing remote sensing, and various communication satellites.

In the Samara region, a doctor from the draft board was detained while receiving a bribe. As RIA "Novosti" was informed on Monday in the regional police department, the doctor of the Bolshechernihovsky district hospital, who was also a member of the draft board, received a bribe of 35,000 rubles from a 21-year-old conscript. A criminal case has been initiated under article 290-2 of the Russian Criminal Code (“taking a bribe”).

On April 17, in the evening, residents of house No. 46 on the street called the remote control of the regional rescue service. Geologists in Tyumen. According to the press secretary of the rescue service, Elena Tretyachenko, the cause of their concern was a fetid smell spreading from one apartment. None of the neighbors saw the owner of the apartment for several weeks. The man was famous for the whole entrance because of his addiction to animals - he took care of 10 cats.

The Ministry of Taxes and Duties of Russia is going to check the legitimacy of transactions made by the Open Russia Foundation last year. The Ministry of Taxes and Taxes has already checked the charitable organization founded by the former head of the Yukos oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and found no violations in its activities, writes Lenta.Ru with reference to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

At a meeting on Monday, the State Duma Budget Committee recommended that the lower house of parliament adopt in three readings at once a government bill that provides for an increase in the mineral extraction tax (MET) rate for oil production to 400 rubles per ton and an increase in export duties on oil, Gazeta.Ru reports. link to Interfax.

The widow of the first president of Georgia, Manana Archvadze-Gamsakhurdia, together with representatives of non-governmental organizations of Georgia, is holding a protest action on Monday near the government residence of Krtsanisi, where Eduard Shevardnadze currently lives. The widow of Gamsakhurdia is protesting against the possible continuation of Shevardnadze's political career in the UN, RIA Novosti reports. "Shevardnadze is guilty of a number of grave crimes.

Mikhail Kodanev, sentenced to 20 years in prison for ordering the assassination of State Duma deputy Sergei Yushenkov, was transferred from the Butyrka detention center to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. "Kodanev underwent a full course of treatment in the psycho-therapeutic department of the medical unit of Butyrka and was again transferred to Lefortovo last week.