15:25 // 11/29/2008 Two earthquakes of magnitude 5.3 and 5.1 occurred in Alaska, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the American National Earthquake Center. The epicenter of underground shocks with an interval of one minute was recorded in the central part of the state about 21 kilometers southwest of the city of Ankor Point. An earthquake of magnitude 5 and above can cause significant damage, seismologists note. Source: gzt.ru

17:30 // 11/29/2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev returned to Moscow after a weekly trip to Latin America, a press secretary of the head of state Natalya Timakova told RIA Novosti . For Medvedev, this is the first long and long -term foreign business trip to the post of President of Russia. Before the visit to Latin America, the Russian president visited Lisbon, where he held negotiations with the Portuguese colleague.

12:43 // 11/29/2008 According to the results of trading on Friday, on November 28, American exchange indices showed an increase of 0.2-1.2% against the backdrop of investors that the USED Economics will be healed over the past week, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters. To close the trading, the Dow Jones index increased by 102.43 points (1.17%), reaching 8829.04 points. S&P 500 on Friday increased by 8.56 points (0.96%), reaching 896.24 points.

13:53 // 11/29/2008 Oppositionists in Thailand abducted a police officer after replaced the police from the control point near the international airport in Bangkok, RIA Novosti said. About a thousand activists of the opposition folk alliance for democracy, requiring the resignation of the Thai government, began on Saturday advancement towards the Suvarnabhumi airport employed by police officers. In response to this, the police did not take any measures, making a decision to retreat.

15:59 // 11/29/2008 The ministerial meeting of the organization of Arab oil exporters (Oapek) opened in Cairo, RIA Novosti reports. Arab ministers of oil and energy, concerned about a sharp drop in oil prices, discuss the ways of cooperation to stabilize the situation in the global energy market. In the afternoon, an extraordinary meeting of OPEC will be held in Cairo at the ministerial level, at which the possible reduction in oil production will be discussed by countries entering the cartel.

17:20 // 11/29/2008 The death sentence regarding two Saudi Arabia citizens-Muhammad Bin Kerim al-Ininasi and Sadec Nazal al-Khalidi, found guilty of drug distribution, was carried out by Riyadh, the Republic of the Republic’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, published in local media, said. The investigation irrefutably proved the guilt of the accused of repeated cases of drug distribution in large quantities, the report said.

13:18 // 11/29/2008 The hot stone avalanches go along the slopes of the Schiludo volcano in Kamchatka, a representative of the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences told RIA Novosti . "Last day, prolonged landslides of the hot lava were observed," the interlocutor said. In the area of Gravina, the seismic stations are recorded by dozens of local earthquakes, some of which accompany gas-praise emissions to a height of up to 5.8 kilometers.

18:09 // 11/29/2008 The body of the next murdered girl, the seventh since the beginning of the week, was discovered in Chechnya, the official representative of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee at the RIA of the Investigative Committee at the RIA of the Prosecutor's Office (SCP) of the Russian Federation in the republic said.

18:24 // 11/29/2008 The clashes between the warring ethnic and religious groups occurred in the Nigerian city of Jos, 381 people died, RIA Novosti reports with reference to France Press. The agency’s correspondent became an eyewitness to counting the hits after the riots in the city, which began the day before. A wave of pogroms swept through the city, about 100 houses, as well as churches and mosques, were burned.

18:37 // 11/29/2008 Today, November 29, in the evening in Moscow on Red Square near the walls of the Kremlin and GUM, the central ice rink opens. As the REGNUM correspondent reports, the main ice skating rink is poured in the center of Moscow for the second year. As in 2007, it is planned to triple the demonstrations of famous skaters and artists on the rink. The skating rink on Red Square will work daily from 10.00 to 00.00, everyone can visit it. Up to 500 people can ride in one session.

16:33 // 11/29/2008 The Pra-Directive Party of the People’s Union Our Ukraine elected at the congress the new chairman of the President of the President Viktor Yushchenko instead of the chaired by Vyacheslav Kirilenko, the party’s press service reported this. Until today, Yushchenko was the honorary chairman. "At the suggestion of Vyacheslav Kirilenko, the chairman of the People’s Union party Our Ukraine, the congress unanimously elected Viktor Yushchenko.

14:27 // 11/29/2008 The earthquake of magnitude 3.9 occurred on Saturday by the Pacific Ocean off the east coast of Kamchatka, a representative of the geophysical service of the Russian Academy of Sciences told RIA Novosti . The epicenter of the earthquake was located 70 kilometers north -east of the southern end of the peninsula - the cape of the scapula at a depth of 70 kilometers under the seabed.

12:55 // 11/29/2008 The final inclusion of Shattla Indevor’s engines for departure from the ISS, postponed due to the fact that there was space garbage - fragments of a Russian satellite on the way of the shuttle - was completed successfully, the representative of the Johnson space center in Houston told RIA Novosti . "To date, three inclusions of the shuttle engines were carried out as part of the maneuver on departure from the ISS.

19:01 // 11/29/2008 Several hundred demonstrators who occupied the main terminal of Bangkok International Airport did not submit to the authorities to leave the airport and drove off the police from about 150 people, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Associated Press . Currently, demonstrators are blocking the two main airports of Bangkok - Don Muang and Suvarnabhumi. Thus, the country was in a kind of air blockade. The Utapao airport works, but its throughput is small.

15:48 // 11/29/2008 The musicians of the orchestra and the choir of the famous Italian La Scala Theater on Friday confirmed the strike on December 7, on the day of the premiere of Don Quixote, since their requirements for the theater directorate were not satisfied with some points of labor contracts, RIA Novosti said with reference to the Ansa agency.