Republican lawmakers and the White House have agreed to change the bill governing military tribunals. As The Washington Post reports, citing anonymous sources in the administration, the new project guarantees the government much more rights in identifying civilians as participants in illegal armed groups.

The head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, Viktor Baloga, on behalf of Viktor Yushchenko, re-sent eight presidential decrees issued in August-September 2006 for the signatures of the Prime Minister and heads of relevant departments.

The head of the US national intelligence community, John Negroponte, confirmed that new terrorist groups have formed there during the war in Iraq, but rejected the suggestion that the chance of a terrorist attack on US soil is higher than in 2001. According to the AP, this was Negroponte’s reaction to the publication in the press of excerpts from a secret report of the intelligence services under his control on the fight against terrorism.

Employees of Uzbek banks are prohibited from serving people whose names are included in “a list compiled by an unknown government agency,” Fergana.Ru news agency reports . As the agency notes, the list, which any visitor can view, contains the names of famous human rights activists and oppositionists, in particular, Muhammad Salikh, Atanazar Aripov, Talib Yakubov and Sanzhar Umarov. If any of these people wishes to receive or send money, the bank employee must immediately inform his superiors.

The Ministry of Natural Resources will order to stop the Sakhalin-2 energy project if its participants do not ensure the environmental safety of the pipeline. This warning was made by the head of the ministry, Yuri Trutnev, reports RIA Novosti .

The US Defense Cooperation Agency has approved a draft agreement for the supply of a batch of HIMARS missile launchers to the United Arab Emirates, reports Defense-Aerospace.com . The HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) missile launcher is based on the MRLS multiple launch rocket system. It is designed to destroy area targets - artillery batteries, warehouses, concentrations of manpower.

The nephew of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, independent journalist Jamshid Karimov, is being held in a special psychiatric hospital in Samarkand. reported on Tuesday As Fergana.ru , the reporter's wife tried to visit him in a psychiatric hospital, but she was denied a visit. Nevertheless, she managed to obtain confirmation that Jamshid Karimov was indeed being treated by them. At the same time, the publication notes, the journalist’s family continues to remain cut off from the outside world.

Shinzo Abe has been confirmed as the new head of the Japanese government. At 52, he became the country's youngest prime minister in 65 years. He is also the first of the generation born after World War II. The post of prime minister was effectively guaranteed to Abe after he became chairman of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, winning the election with the help of his predecessor in both posts, Junichiro Koizumi.

Chelsea head coach Jose Mourinho said that he will play forward Andrei Shevchenko in the starting lineup, despite his low performance. The mentor believes that the attacking combination of the Ukrainian and Didier Drogba is quite effective, and a striker of Shevchenko’s caliber will definitely start scoring goals. Conversations about the Ukrainian national team player's unsuccessful start to his Chelsea career have resumed after he once again left the field without a goal on Saturday.

An administrative case has been opened against the first secretary of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Ryabov, for holding an unauthorized rally, Gazeta.Ru reports . The basis for the start of administrative proceedings was the holding of a march organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on September 14 in Nizhny Novgorod against the American-Russian military exercises in the Nizhny Novgorod region "Torgau-2006".

Bishkek Manas International Airport is closed until 6.00 Wednesday local time (4.00 Moscow time) due to a collision between two airliners that occurred on Tuesday. According to RIA Novosti , all flights have been postponed and aircraft will not take off or land. At about 20.00 Moscow time, a Hercules tanker, belonging to an American military base on the territory of the airport, landed at Bishkek airport.

A former employee of the Russian Presidential Administration, Herman Stadler, became the prosecutor of the Republic of North Ossetia. His candidacy, Interfax reports , was approved at a meeting of the republican parliament on Tuesday. A secret vote was held, as a result of which 56 deputies voted for Stadler’s candidacy, one abstained, and no one voted against. Hermann Stadler was born in 1963 in Almaty.

In Washington, DC, the same Bank of America branch was robbed twice in one day, AFP reports . The first incident occurred at 11 a.m. local time. An elderly man entered a bank branch located in the central area of ​​the American capital and demanded proceeds from the cashier. The robber was not armed, but received the money and fled. The police who arrived at the scene recorded the robbery and then left. The bank opened, but three hours later it was robbed again.

Forward of the Russian hockey team and the Pittsburgh Penguins NHL club Evgeni Malkin, who received a serious shoulder injury last week, will recover without surgery. The hockey player will return to the ice in about four to six weeks and will miss about ten regular season matches. Representatives of “Pittsburgh” did not provide details of the report of doctors who conducted an in-depth examination of Malkin’s shoulder on Monday.

The final week of September will bring at least two sequels to console role-playing games that deserve attention due to their atypical nature. In addition, players are invited to try themselves in the role of not the most typical matador and become the commander of an army consisting of not the most familiar combat units.