26.08.2012, 14:26:46 version Print | PDA/PDA Neil Armstrong. Photo by NASA Astronauts don't die on Saturdays The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, dies History loves the first, and Neil Armstrong was clearly one of its favorites. The American answer to the Soviet Gagarin, he did everything to distance himself from that most important achievement in his life. “I don’t like that most people know me as the same guy from the moon.

terrorists Two al-Qaeda have filed a lawsuit against the British authorities with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The Daily Telegraph reported this on Saturday, August 25. Both terrorists who lodged complaints with the ECHR are British citizens and are currently serving life sentences. The men claim they were tortured by Pakistani intelligence services, and the British security service MI5 was aware of the methods of their Pakistani colleagues.

According to updated data, as a result of an explosion that occurred at an oil refinery in Venezuela, 39 people were killed and more than 80 were injured, Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday, August 26. As Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua announced, the death toll included 18 national guardsmen who provided security for the refinery and 15 civilians, including a 10-year-old boy. The identities of the other six victims have not yet been established.

In the suburbs of Damascus, where government troops carried out a special operation, the bodies of 122 dead were discovered, representatives of the Syrian opposition announced on the evening of Saturday, August 26. Among the dead were 13 women. In total, according to the opposition, more than 200 people were killed during the special operation in the village of Daraya, reports Reuters .

Egypt has sentenced 75 participants in the attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo in September 2011, Al-Ahram writes. All convicts were sentenced to a year of suspended imprisonment with the exception of one - former police officer Omar Afifi, who was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison.

UK authorities have withdrawn a threat to invade the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hiding . This Reuters reports. was announced by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa in his weekly address on Saturday, August 25, “We consider this unfortunate incident to be over,” Correa said, noting that British authorities made a “deadly diplomatic mistake” by threatening to enter the Ecuadorian embassy in London to arrest Assange.

More than 330 people were killed in Syria on Saturday, CNN reports, citing opposition representatives from the Local Coordination Committees. According to them, August 25 became “the bloodiest day” since the start of the armed confrontation in the country. The list of victims includes data on more than 200 dead, whose bodies were discovered on August 25 in the suburbs of Damascus, primarily in the village of Daraya, where government troops were conducting a special operation.

Libyan Interior Minister Fawzi Abdelali resigned on Sunday, August 26, Agence France-Presse reports, citing a ministry representative. According to the ministry, Abdel-Ali left his post because he did not agree with criticism of the actions of the department he headed, and also as a sign of support for security forces who fought against the regime of the country's leader Muammar Gadaffi during the civil war . Last week, two people were killed in a double explosion in Tripoli.

Typhoon Bolaven reached the coast of Japan on the evening of August 26 and affected part of the island of Okinawa, reports Agence France-Presse . Wind gusts in the typhoon area reach speeds of 70 meters per second. It is expected that the height of the waves caused by the wind will reach 13 meters, and heavy rainfall will fall on the island - up to 500 millimeters during the day.

In Beijing, a man sat on a syringe left in a taxi, which, as it later turned out, contained HIV particles. China Daily reported this on August 25. A 37-year-old Beijing resident, whose name has not been released, sat in the back seat of a taxi on the night of August 23 and pricked his foot on a syringe that was in the pocket of the front seat. A needle cap containing a sticky liquid was also found in the pocket.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared three days of national mourning for those killed in an explosion at an oil refinery, the Associated Press reported on Saturday, August 25. “This affects us all,” Chavez said in a telephone interview with one television channel, adding that he demanded a thorough investigation into the causes of the incident. According to updated data, 26 people were killed as a result of a gas explosion that occurred at a refinery located near the city of Amuay.

US President Barack Obama called astronaut Neil Armstrong "one of America's greatest heroes", reports Agence France-Presse . Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died on August 25 at the age of 82.

Moscow police detained six participants in an unauthorized rally in support of girls from the punk group Pussy Riot , Interfax reported on the morning of Sunday, August 26, citing sources in the city’s law enforcement agencies. According to the agency's interlocutors, on Saturday evening the participants of the action, whose faces were covered with balaclavas, followed the route for 1 hour and 25 minutes: Chistoprudny Boulevard - Sretenka Street - Tsvetnoy Boulevard - Pushkinskaya Square.

London football club Chelsea beat Newcastle 2-0 on Saturday, August 25, reports Reuters . The first goal was scored from a penalty by Eden Hazard in the 22nd minute, the final score of the match was set by Fernando Torres in stoppage time at the end of the first half. Chelsea, unlike other clubs, has already played three matches in the English Championship and won all three. The match of the third round, in which Chelsea met at Reading, was postponed from September 1 to August 22.

United Russia Federation Council member Ruslan Gattarov proposed equating the hacking of government websites to the seizure of government bodies, Interfax reports . “People receive various kinds of government services through the websites of authorities, so it is necessary to update legislation on cybercrimes. And this will become a priority task for us legislators at the autumn session,” Gattarov said.