15:16 // 10.12.2006 The Pope Benedict XVI, speaking to believers on Sunday, expressed his concern about the situation that developed in Lebanon. "I urge all those who have political responsibility, to think exclusively about the good of the country and the harmony between various communities living in it," said Pontiff, according to RIA.

Dmitry Rogozin is trying to return to politics last Saturday, the first congress of the updated congress of Russian communities (KRO) was held. The movement, dozing the last two or three years, changed the name to "Homeland. The Congress of Russian Communities ”made changes to the charter, and also chose a new leadership: the deputy from the Rodina party Dmitry Rogozin became the chairman.

20:51 // 10.12.2006 President of Madagascar, millionaire Mark Ravalomanan, who knocked down a fortune in the dairy industry, won the presidential election and received another five -year mandate. The elections, reminds Reuters , took place a week ago, but right now the Ministry of the Interior announced the official results of the vote: Ravalomanians cast their votes 54.8 percent of voters. This result allowed him to avoid the second round.

52% of the Scots do not want to be subjects of Great Britain according to a survey conducted by The Sunday Telegraph, 52% of Scotland residents dream of sailing from the mother ship - England. But even more amazing is the readiness of 59% of the British with pleasure to wish the Scots of a happy journey. The correspondent of the British newspaper decided to find out that the Scots and the British think about this. Today is Thursday, November 30. St. Andrew's Day.

At the 92nd year of life in Chile, in the 92nd year of his life, the former dictator of this country Augusto Pinochet died. In early December, it resembles Interfax , Pinochet survived a heart attack and was in a military hospital in the intensive care unit. Previously, his condition worsened so much that the priest conduced the 90-year-old patient. It should be noted that the spouse of Pinochet did not give permission to conduct the ex-ruler of the country of a dangerous heart surgery.

The newspaper weekly rating of the most high-profile political news of the past week was the results of the Perm elections, the manifestations of political amateur performances and the president’s meeting with party leaders in Novo-Ogravo. However, the leader of the “Gazeta” rating was again involved in the criminal case. In Tomsk, on charges of abuse of official powers, as well as extorting large monetary amounts, the mayor of the city Alexander Makarov was arrested.

In the B6 model, under suspicion, janitors, diesel and brakes, the German automaker Volkswagen AG announced a review of service stations to eliminate the detected technical defects of more than 300 thousand medium -sized Passat models, Reuters reports. According to the information voiced by the Volkswagen AG representative office on Friday, the service owners of the Passat B6 modification are invited to the service from 2005 to today.

16:10 // 10.12.2006 The founder of the Bangladesh Bank Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "contribution to the fight against poverty and social and social development" at the Oslo ceremony on Sunday. This year, the organizers divided the prize in half - Muhammad UNUS and Bank Gradim as an organization personally became laureates. On behalf of the Bank "Gramin", the reward was received by a member of the Bank of the Bank Mosammat Tashma Begum.

Almost all the laureates of this year - the Americans King Sweden Karl XVI Gustav handed gold medals and diplomas to the Nobel laureates of 2006 on Sunday. Earlier on Sunday, Oslo was awarded the Nobel Prize of the World Bangladeshsky Bank "Grameen Bank" and its founder Muhammad Yunus for "contribution to the fight against poverty and economic and social development." The ceremony, which was held in the concert hall in Stockholm, was attended by all laureates.

18:50 // 10.12.2006 Traces of radioactive alpha radiation discovered by the German police last Saturday in the Hamburg apartment of the ex-wife of the Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Kovtun and in her mother’s house in the federal land Schleswig-Holstein are definitely traces of Polo-210. This was announced at a press conference in Hamburg ITAR-TASS by the head of the operation Thomas Menzel. “Speech is definitely the traces of Polonia -210,” he said.

18:16 // 10.12.2006 Tens of thousands of Lebanese flow at these minutes from all over the country to the center of Beirut in order to demand from the current government of Fuad Signora to share power with the opposition or resign. In the hands of the participants in the upcoming manifestation - the flags of the Shiite movement "Hezbollah" and the Christian "free democratic movement" of General Aun, but most of the national flags of Lebanon.

17:00 // 10.12.2006 In the western part of Baghdad, mainly inhabited by the Sunnis, the militants attacked two houses in which Shiite families lived. According to RIA, citing local police, a total of nine people died. At the same time, only men were noted by the police, only men became victims of attacks, women were not injured. Other details of the incident are not reported. Source: gzt.ru

21:50 // 10.12.2006 In the West French city of Swerel (Department of Morbian), with a large coincidence of the people, today the opening ceremony of the monument to the Pope John Paul II-m was held. The monument to the work of the Russian sculptor Zurab ceremonies is a bronze four -meter figure of the late pontiff, which blesses the believers with raising the hands. John Paul II is represented by standing under a huge arch, beyond which an eight-meter cross rises.

22:55 // 10.12.2006 According to the results of Exit-Polls, the current head of the unrecognized republic Igor Smirnov won the presidential election in Transnistria. According to Interfax with reference to the data of the Transnistrian independent center of analytical research "New Century", Smirnov gained 63.34% of votes. Nadezhda Bondarenko, a candidate from the Transnistrian Communist Party - 8.54% of the vote, and 6.51% of voters came to the second place.

Events in Lebanon will lead to a new military confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah in the last weekend in Beirut was a massive anti-government demonstration. At first glance, it would seem to the uninitiated European that we are talking about gay struggle for their rights: the protesters carried multi -colored banners, which from a bird’s height merged into a rainbow, a traditional symbol of homosexuals.