600 people were evacuated this morning from the Louvre pyramid, where the entrance to the museum is located, after a suspicious ownerless suitcase was discovered there, AFP reports. According to the police, the evacuation took place without incidents. During the operation to check the suitcase, sappers also stopped the movement of buses to the Louvre. In a suitcase that was forgotten by an unknown visitor to the museum, the sappers found nothing but underwear.

British sappers neutralized today a powerful bomb at the Belfast International Airport - the Administrative Center of Northern Ireland. According to a police representative, an explosive device containing 20 kg of explosives was located in a Volvo brand of silver color with false numbers. The bomb, according to the police, was discovered after an anonymous call by phone.

The premiere of the film by Baise Lurman "Moulin Rouge" (Actrali-Ssha) will be held today at the Moscow Cinema "Prague". In May, the guests of the 54th International Film Festival in Cannes had already met this picture, it was also shown at the closure of the XXIII Moskovsky International Film Festival. “Moulin Rouge” is a rapid cancan and colorful Paris, love and popular hits of Lennon, McCartney, Sting, Elton John and many other stars.

The volume of Russia's GDP in the 1st half of 2001 increased by 5.4%, and the volume of industrial production by 5.5%. Interfax reports that this is stated in the materials of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation based on the results of the socio-economic development of the country, prepared for tomorrow's meeting of the government. During this period, consumer prices in Russia increased by 12.7%.

Natives from the Japanese islands, who became the ancestors of many Indian tribes, the English newspaper The Telegraph , opened and began colonizing America. According to recent studies, immigrants from the Japanese islands appeared in the New World 15 thousand years ago. Earlier, anthropologists believed that America was colonized from China or Mongolia. In the course of the study, more than 20 parameters of modern and prehistoric skulls in Europe, Asia and America were compared.

The train of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Ira moves along Siberia at an average speed of 57 kilometers per hour, that is, more slowly than an electric train. Representatives of the West Siberian Railway shared these data today. The Liter train of the head of the DPRK has left Omsk today, and now the favorite leader of North Korea will not appear to the eyes of the public until Moscow itself. In Omsk, he admired very powerful tanks and very small books.

Moscow considers as inappropriate protests from the Japanese side on the problem of South Korean fishing in the exclusive economic zone of the Russian Federation in the area of ​​the Southern Kuril Islands. This is stated in a statement by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Such protests are accepted by us cannot be due to the fact that these islands are the territory of the Russian Federation," is indicated in the document.

In the city of Haifa in the north of Israel, police killed Palestinets this afternoon. According to the Israeli authorities, the dead intended to commit a large attack. No other information about the incident has yet been received, ITAR-TASS reports. Today, explosions thundered in Jerusalem and Hevron (western bank of the Jordan River). No one was injured.

In the capital, an armed attack on the office of the Roller construction company on Leninsky Prospekt was committed, Interfax reports. Today at about 5:40 a.m., two unknown people, threatening with knives to the security guards of the company, stole about 360 thousand dollars, after which they disappeared. The search for criminals is currently underway. Links on the topic

This year, the volume of financing for supporting Russian compatriots in the near abroad has been increased almost 2 times compared to last year. This was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Khristenko during an Internet press conference.

The Office of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus, together with the FSB of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, holds investigative-operational measures within the framework of the passenger bus excited in the Nevinnomi seizure.

Israel agreed to the proposal of the Egyptian government to place American observers in the area of ​​the Palestinian city of Rafach, Interfax reports. The consent of Tel Aviv to allow observers in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel informed the head of the Foreign Ministry of Egypt Ahmed Maher during the telephone conversation held between them. Meanwhile, the confrontation between Palestine and Israel makes new victims.

The popular theater and cinema actress Natalia Gundareva appeared signs of the return of consciousness, reports Radio Echo of Moscow. The deputy director of the Research Institute of Neurosurgery named after Burdenko, professor Alexander Potapov, According to him, "over the past two days, consciousness is gradually returning to the actress, she began to respond to individual teams of doctors." Potapov noted that Gundareva’s condition is now evaluated as “serious”.

Today, the government can determine the new duties on the import of old foreign cars. An increase in duties will affect the cars aged three to seven years - the most popular category of foreign cars. After the June meeting of car industry with President Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov announced a fundamental decision to introduce prohibition duties on imported cars over seven years old.

The Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in the issue for Thursday published pictures of one of the train wagons, on which the leader of North Korea Kim Jong Ir is traveling to Moscow. In the pictures, secretly made, according to journalists, on Wednesday in Omsk, about ten holes are visible on the car, one of which was circled in chalk.