Wild dingoes attacked two boys on Fraser Island in the Australian state of Queensland on Monday morning. An 8-year-old boy was mauled to death by dogs, and a 6-year-old boy managed to escape from the pack. There his screams attracted adults who drove the dingo away. It was not possible to help the other child; when adults arrived, he was already dead. Police say the children were attacked by dogs while walking near the campground where their parents were at the time, Reuters reports.

The British Foreign Office condemned the terrorist attack against Macedonian military personnel, which led to the death of 8 people on April 28 and the injury of 7 more. This was stated in an official statement issued in London by the head of the British Foreign Office, Robin Cook, as reported by a RIA Novosti correspondent.

In Voronezh, a resident of Chechnya surrendered to the Federal Security Service, who states that he worked for French intelligence and gave it analytical reports on life in Russia and Chechnya, NTV reports. Now FSB officers are working with him, and they have already stated that a significant part of this person’s testimony is confirmed.

The third giant IKEA store in Moscow with a total area of ​​about 70 thousand square meters will be built on the site of the consumer services complex of the Presidential Administration near the Kutuzovskaya metro station. IKEA has already reached an agreement with the Presidential Administration: the Swedish company will build a new “house of life” for the Kremlin, writes the Vedomosti newspaper.

In the center of Moscow, in house 9/5 on Kitaygorodsky Proezd - on the territory of the Academy of Strategic Missile Forces, a strong fire broke out. The Department of the State Fire Service of the capital reports that at about 20:50 Moscow time, the “01” control panel received a message about a fire on the territory of the Academy of Strategic Missile Forces in Kitaygorodsky Proezd.

Viktor Kazantsev, the presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Southern Federal District, said in an interview with NTV on Monday that “there is no war in Chechnya now” and peaceful life is being restored. “What the bandits are doing now in Chechnya - explosions and so on - this says that peaceful life is coming, and confidently coming.

The current UK Labor government says it intends to implement plans for radical reform of restaurant licensing legislation, the BBC reports. British pubs, bars and restaurants may soon be allowed to serve and sell alcoholic drinks 24 hours a day. Details of the reform - the most radical in 40 years - are due to be unveiled in London in the coming days. Today in the country there is a time limit on the sale of alcoholic beverages in stores and on ordering them in drinking establishments.

Early elections are scheduled for September 23. Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski said on Monday that he plans to organize general elections in September 2001, the Reuters news agency reported. “Now the citizens of our country have to make a decision. I am going to hold elections to the Seimas and Senate on Sunday, September 23,” he said at today’s press conference.

Valery's dissatisfaction with the statements of the coach of Spartak and the Russian national team Oleg Romantsev resulted in two goals scored by him during the meeting between Spartak and Saturn. Let us remind you that the Russian champion lost this match with a score of 0:3. After this, the team’s striker from Ramenskoye decided to respond verbally to Romantsev’s statements that Kechinov was no longer of interest to the national team. “I don’t know why he makes such statements.

Italian Francesco Casagrande is in the lead. The second is American Lance Armstrong. Dutchman Eric Dekker is third. Latvian cyclist Romans Vainsteins occupies sixth position in the ranking, and Lithuanian Raimondas Rumzas is ninth. Andrey Chmil from Belarus took 12th place. Russian Pavel Tonkov is still 19th.

A court in Riga on Monday found three Russian citizens, Maxim Zhurkin, Sergei Solovy and Dmitry Gafarov, guilty of terrorism. Together with them, Vladimir Moskovtsev, a resident of Latvia, was also found guilty. According to the court decision, Zhurkin and Solovy were sentenced to 15 years in prison, Gafarov to five years, and Moskovtsev was given a suspended sentence.

According to the latest statements by representatives of the Ministry of Defense, almost 150 cadets of the Zhukovsky Aviation University were delivered to hospitals by Monday. They are in several hospitals in Moscow and the Moscow region, and all cadets have been diagnosed with food intoxication. Interfax reports that the causes of the cadets' illness have not yet been reported, but, according to the first data, most likely the university students were poisoned by poor-quality water or food.

In Moscow, by the evening of April 30, authorities finally approved the plan for May Day marches, according to which three demonstrations will be held in the Russian capital on Tuesday. The first procession will begin at 9:00 near the Belorussky railway station. It is organized by Moscow trade unions celebrating “Spring and Labor Day”, and according to the application, about 25 thousand people will participate in this demonstration.

London police are allowed to use plastic bullets in case of possible unrest during the May Day holidays, said the head of the British capital's police department, Lord Harris. In an interview with the BBC, Lord Harris denied that law enforcement officers would be armed with tear gas, but did not rule out that the police could take their own canisters with them to May Day events. Between 6 and 10 thousand people are expected to take part in anti-capitalist demonstrations on Tuesday.

In Moldova, it was announced that after the May holidays, electricity may be cut off in all kindergartens and schools in Chisinau, which owe about $1 million to the Spanish company that owns the majority of Moldova's electrical networks. One school already lost power last Friday. In addition, over the past few months, the Spanish company has cut off power to the Chisinau emergency rescue service and street lighting in the city center, RIA Novosti reports.