In the village of Saltykovka near Moscow, unknown people tried to burn down the synagogue. As reported with reference to Interfax Gazeta.Ru, the arson was committed early in the morning on January 1. The first to notice the flames was a resident of a neighboring house, she woke up the people sleeping inside the building, who remained in the synagogue for Shabbat.

Two people died in Ingushetia as a result of an explosion in a car. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a source in law enforcement agencies of the republic. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the explosion occurred the day before in the interior of a Zhiguli car in the city of Malgobek. The driver and his passenger died as a result. Two more people - a friend of the driver and her son - were taken to the hospital with shrapnel wounds and burns.

A car accident killed 23 people and seriously injured 15. The tragedy happened in Burundi, where a passenger bus overturned on Tuesday. Most of the passengers were students who were returning to the country's capital after the Christmas holidays. Officials say the bus was overcrowded. Six cyclists were also killed. The accident occurred 18 km north of the capital of Burundi, the city of Bujumbura.

An anti-tank mine from the Great Patriotic War was found in garages in the north of Moscow. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Tuesday by a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. The mine was discovered at about 13.00 Moscow time on Monday near one of the boxes of the garage complex at 9a Matros Zheleznyak Boulevard. The source did not specify the circumstances of the discovery of the mine.

In Moscow, a 16-year-old teenager committed suicide, sources in the police department of the capital said. On January 2, at 2.50, a corpse of a 11th grade student of school 1737, who lived in one of the apartments of this house, was found near house 3 on Pronskaya Street in the Zhulebino microdistrict of the South-Eastern District of the capital, Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax.

The murder of the governor of Baghdad. Photo by ar In Iraq, as a result of the attack of unknown people, the governor of Baghdad Ali al-Haidri was killed, reports Reuters with a reference to medical sources and law enforcement agencies. He died in his car, driving around the Khurria district, in the north of Baghdad, the Air Force reports. According to eyewitnesses, the car was ambushed.

A militant was killed in the Shali district of Chechnya on Tuesday. This is stated in the message of the Regional Operational Headquarters (ROH) for the management of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus. According to the ROSH, the militant was found near the village of Avtury. He "carried out the laying of an improvised explosive device on the section of the road between the village of Niki-Khita in the Kurchaloi region and the village of Avtury," the document says.

The international humanitarian organization "Doctors Without Borders" decided to suspend the collection of funds to provide assistance to victims of natural disasters in the countries of South and Southeast Asia, since the amount of donations turned out to be unexpectedly large, RIA Novosti reports. "This is the first time we've made such a decision," Pierre Salignon, CEO of Médecins Sans Frontières, said in an interview released Tuesday by the organization's Paris headquarters.

Six people have gone missing in Chechnya over the past 24 hours. According to law enforcement agencies, five of this number were abducted by unknown armed men, the republic's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that a group of persons armed with automatic weapons abducted Said-Akhmed Makaev, a student of the Oil Institute, and Timur Tsakaev, a student of the Pedagogical Institute, from their homes in the Leninsky district of Grozny.

Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi. Photo from the archive Newsru.com In Iraq, one of the closest associates of Osama Bin Laden, the head of one of the most radical Islamic groups "At-Tauhid Val-Dzhikhad" Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi. At least this was announced on Tuesday by the newspaper "Al-Bayan", which goes to the UAE. The newspaper refers to Kurdish sources, which in the past were the first to inform about the discovery and arrest of the overthrown President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, notes Newsru.com.

The Thai authorities have fired the head of the local weather service. In addition, an investigation has been launched into why meteorologists did not warn the public about the impending tsunami. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced this on Tuesday, CNN reports. "When there was an earthquake measuring up to 9 on the Richter scale in Sumatra, it was clear that a tsunami could happen," the prime minister said. "But why wasn't a warning issued?