The leadership of the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli authorities expressed support for the idea of ​​a Middle East summit in the United States with the participation of representatives of the EU, UN, USA and Russia, reports the Associated Press. The Palestinian Authority made the decision to support it at a cabinet meeting, which was held for the first time since Israel launched a military operation in the Palestinian territories in March.

Mike Tyson admitted to biting Lennox Lewis on the leg, AP reports. “Yes, I really bit Lewis,” the famous American boxer said in an interview with the FOX News Channel. The incident occurred on January 22, when Tyson attacked Lewis, started a fight and thereby disrupted a press conference before the fight between these boxers scheduled for April.

On Friday evening, the world famous conductor, composer and pianist Evgeny Fedorovich Svetlanov died in his Moscow concert at the age of 74. The musician’s relatives reported this to RIA Novosti . Evgeny Svetlanov was born in 1928 in Moscow. Graduated from the Gnessin Musical Pedagogical Institute and the Moscow Conservatory. For many years he was conductor and chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theater. Since 1965 - artistic director and chief conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra.

A civil memorial service and farewell ceremony for the outstanding conductor, composer and pianist Evgeny Svetlanov will be held at the Bolshoi Theater on May 7. According to journalists from the Ekho Moskvy radio station, the funeral service will take place in a church on Bryusov Lane in Moscow. Let us remind you that Svetlanov died on the night of Saturday, May 4, at the age of 74.

At negotiations between US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, “progress was made towards completing our work on the strategic framework document” for the new relationship between Russia and the United States. correspondent reports As a RIA Novosti , Powell told reporters in Washington after negotiations with the Russian minister at the State Department on Friday.

According to the Russian Embassy in Turkey, there were no Russian citizens among the hostages taken at Istanbul's Marmara Hotel on Saturday. This was reported by Ekho Moskvy with reference to representatives of the embassy. According to updated information, the terrorist took four citizens of Bulgaria, three of Japan and six of Turkey hostage. It was previously reported that the hostages included from two to five Russians.

The Philippine military has arrested two members of the leadership of the Islamic extremist group Abu Sayyaf, AP reports. This group is involved in kidnappings and, according to American intelligence services, is associated with the Al-Qaeda network. One of the detainees, Sattar Yaqub, is considered the fourth person in the Abu Sayyaf leadership. He was part of a group of terrorists who have been holding an American couple hostage for about 11 months.

Heavy rain, which lasted for more than 6 hours last Thursday, passed over the states of West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky in the eastern United States. The Big Sandy River and several of its tributaries overflowed their banks. In populated areas, floodwaters flooded streets and residential areas. According to local authorities, 3 people were killed and more than 12 were missing. A state of emergency has been declared in the region.

All passengers were urgently evacuated from the airport in the American city of Cleveland. According to Ekho Moskvy, the evacuation was announced after an anonymous telephone call. According to journalists, a certain man called the airport dispatch service and said that a bomb was hidden in the luggage of one of the passengers. According to radio journalists, the message was taken seriously and 12 flights were postponed.

The Israelis found a bomb-making factory near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, BBC News reports. It is not yet known whether this factory has been destroyed. However, Bethlehem mayor Hanna Nasser assured British journalists that the entire situation around the church "will be resolved within the next few hours." Let us remind you that it was previously reported that a powerful explosion occurred in the area of ​​the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

At least 126 people, including all 69 passengers and seven crew members, were killed when the passenger jet crashed into densely populated areas of the northern Nigerian city of Kano. In addition, about 50 residents of the block where the plane fell were killed. Earlier it was reported that there were 105 people on board the liner, Reuters reports.

A passenger plane crashed in northern Nigeria on Saturday with 105 people on board. According to Reuters, the Nigerian Airlines BAC 111-500 was on a domestic flight, flying from the city of Jos (central Nigeria) to the city of Kano in the north of the country. For unknown reasons, the plane did not reach the airport and fell into densely populated areas of the city, where it caught fire.

Workers at a crematorium in Cambodia accused of cannibalism have been acquitted. According to Reuters, the two ate the toes and fingers of the corpses they cremated. According to the prosecution, the crematorium workers began to eat as soon as the relatives of the next deceased left. Residents of the province of Banteay Meanchey told police that they fear the moment when there will be no one left to be cremated.

On Friday, in a number of small cities in the American states of Illinois and Iowa, unknown persons planted about a dozen homemade bombs in the mailboxes of local residents, AP reports. The bombs were placed in such a way that they exploded when the boxes were opened. According to preliminary data, at least five people were injured.

The terrorist who took about 20 hostages at the Marmara Hotel in central Istanbul on Saturday morning has surrendered to police. As the AP reports, citing Turkish media, the criminal, a Chechen by nationality, took hostages in protest against the actions of the Russian military in Chechnya, as well as Israeli actions against the Palestinians. In addition, according to RIA Novosti , he demanded to be given the opportunity to make a public statement on Chechnya.