The euro, which came close to a record low against the US dollar on Monday, stabilized on Tuesday in anticipation of possible interventions by central banks to support the single European currency. According to Bloomberg, on Tuesday in Asian currency trading the price of the euro fluctuates around 84.91 cents, while on Monday its rate dropped to 84.58 cents.

More than a hundred FBI employees began to investigate the undermining of the US Navy Cole. As a result of the incident that occurred last week, 17 American sailors were killed. The American military claims that Cole was moored in the Yemeni port of Aden for refueling. The mooring was carried out using small tugboats and light ships of the local flotilla. One of them exploded next to the American destroyer.

The Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate extended the appeal of the inter -religious council of Russia, the meeting of which took place in Moscow.

The head of RAO UES of Russia, speaking to deputies in the State Duma today, warned that a reduction in gas supplies to 95 billion cubic meters per year would mean cutting off electricity to a third of the country. This is exactly the volume of gas supplies for the needs of RAO UES that the gas monopolist OAO Gazprom intends to supply. “Gazprom has no idea how much it will supply even in November of this year,” noted Anatoly Chubais.

Natalya Zvereva will not be able to take part in the starting in Moscow in the next Monday of the Kremlin Cup, the organizers of this tournament report. The reason for the refusal to participate in the tournament is an injury. It is likely that Zvereva will have to forget about tennis tournaments until the end of the season.

The price of oil rose again on Tuesday and stabilized around $33.25 per barrel. The next increase came after prices fell by 6% on Monday amid the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations in Egypt. Over the past week, negative news from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone increased oil prices by 13%. The main reason for such a sharp increase was the fears of importing countries that Middle Eastern exporting countries might support the Palestinians and limit supplies.

Chairman of the Permanent Chamber of Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Valery Borshchev urged the participants of the X Congress of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia (IPA) to treat the concept of “totalitarian sect” with caution, reports the Blagovest-info agency. The X Congress of the NPA on the topic “Psychology and Psychopathology of Trust” was held at the Andrei Sakharov Center-Museum.

In just a week, Yekaterinburg investigators revealed a double murder that occurred in the city of Alapaevsk of the Sverdlovsk region. Last Monday, two young people were found dead in one of the apartments of the house on Ostrovsky Street. Two more girls, the friends of the dead, were taken to intensive care in a difficult state. All law enforcement agencies were connected to the investigation of this emergency for the provincial Alapaevsk incident, including the local FSB unit.

The Russian FSB conducted searches in the Moscow branch of the Kuwaiti non-governmental public charitable organization "Society for Social Reforms", which is a structure of the extremist wing of the international Islamic association "Muslim Brotherhood". The ITAR-TASS agency was informed today by the Public Relations Center (PSC) of the FSB of Russia.

Against the backdrop of negotiations in Sharm Esh-Sheikh in the Middle East, clashes of Palestinians with Israeli soldiers continue. The day before, two people were killed in the clashes, including a 13-year-old teenager. He was killed near the shrine of the Jews √ the graves of the foremother Rachel in Bethlehem. The Palestinian policeman in a shootout near the city of Rafa near the border of the gas sector with Egypt was dead.

The tripartite meeting of US President Bill Clinton, President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and the chairman of the Palestinian National Administration of Yasir Arafat in Sharm El-Sheikh today, negotiations on the Middle Eastern settlement have resumed about noon. Before the start of them, the head of the American and Egyptian states talked for 20 minutes to face.

The American movie star Alisia Silverstone, an avid vegetarian, applied a letter to the Federal Chamber of Commerce with a demand to prohibit or limit the propaganda of dairy products. The advertising campaign that has recently unfolded in America under the motto "mustache in milk", according to the actress, ignores the conclusions of the latest research in the field of healthy nutrition, according to which milk is one of the harmful products for humans.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the increase of pensions from November 1 to people living in the Far North and territories equated with it under the living conditions. He stated this after a meeting with the chairman of the Pension Fund Mikhail Zurabov, NTV reports with reference to Interfax. Putin said that the increase will affect approximately 1.3 million people. On average, pensions will be increased in the amount of 50 to 300 rubles.

Russia is represented by 25 athletes, including participants in the Olympics in Sydney. Our athletes arrived in Santiago in advance - October 6 to exclude acclimatization problems. Among them there are participants in the Olympiad in Sydney - this is a jump with a pole, the world record holder among juniors Elena Isinbaeva and high -rise Marina Kuptsova.

The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Nasr Farid Wasyl, called on all Arabs and Muslims to boycott Israel, which “does not want peace and achieves its goals through military means,” ITAR-TASS reports. “The boycott is the most powerful weapon against the Jewish state,” said Sheikh Wasyl, speaking at the An-Nur Mosque in Cairo.