As a result of a fire in the center of Moscow, two people were killed. According to RIA Novosti in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, the fire occurred in a three -room apartment located on the eighth floor of a residential building in Nesvizhsky Lane. The firefighters who arrived at the scene managed to eliminate the focus of the fire. Currently, at the scene, to find out the causes of the incident, employees of the UGPS of the city work.

This week in the Crimea, an investigative experiment in the criminal case on the plane crash of the Russian Tu-154 aircraft will be conducted. This was reported to "Interfax" by the head of the department of military prosecutor's offices of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine Alexei Atamyuk.

The Kursk unloaded nine cruise missiles the main problem for the investigative brigade was the search under the fragments of the boat of the bodies of the dead sailors. Out of 22 cruise missiles on board the Kursk nuclear power plant, nine have been extracted by today. To remove the remaining 13 from the starting mines and send the remaining 13 to a special training ground, it will take at least two weeks.

On Tuesday, Pope John Pavel II met in the Vatican with the head of the Palestinian National Administration Yasir Arafat, ITAR-TASS reports. The press service of the holy throne does not report any details about the meeting. It is only known that during the audience, which lasted 15 minutes, Yasira Arafat was accompanied by 8 people. John Pavel II and the head of PNU exchanged commemorative gifts.

DEUTSCHE BANK Ag in the third quarter has fallen by 49% due to expenses of 408 million euros associated with coating investment losses in the third quarter. However, active investment activity allowed the bank to be among the leaders in the world capital market, notes Financial Times . The net profit in the third quarter amounted to 303 million against 591 million euros in the same period last year.

In St. Petersburg, an attempt to smuggle works of art was suppressed, RIA Novosti reports. 40 unique icons of the XVIII-XIX centuries were found in a parcel among the postal items that followed the flight to Frankfurt. The press service of the North-Western Customs Directorate reported that among the rarities were especially valuable: the icon "Jesus Sudgean with the Saints", the icon "Archangel Gabriel with the chosen saints", "The Mother of God Trusment".

In Bykovo, the Moscow Region, a robbery of a France citizen was committed, Interfax reports. According to the deputy head of the representative office of GAS de France Eddie Perezika, on October 29 in the evening, three unknown people burst into his house on Pushkin Street. Threatening with a knife, they tied the owner and stole $ 2 thousand, 1.5 thousand rubles and jewelry from him. A criminal case has been instituted on this fact. Links on the topic

Four people were killed and 16 were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity as a result of a collision of a PAZ Flight Pass with a Volvo road train in the Tver region, Interfax reports. A car accident occurred on Wednesday afternoon on the 308th kilometer of the Moscow -Riga highway. According to preliminary data, the tragedy occurred due to the fault of the bus driver. The police officers who arrived at the scene of the incident stated that the driver was drunk.

According to RIA Novosti , Major General Rashid Kureshi told reporters that all the nuclear facilities of Pakistan are under one hundred percent protection and no negotiations with the United States are underway in this regard. “The question cannot arise about the attack or even approaching someone to our reliably protected nuclear facilities,” Kureshi emphasized.

More than 700 thousand dollars was won by a super-time player in Ukraine. The ticket was sold to him in one of the post offices of Kyiv. He filled two combinations for five consecutive draws, and it was the fifth game that brought him good luck - Jack -Pot. It is still unknown who is lucky. Under Ukrainian legislation, winnings of the Ukrainian National Lottery are not taxed. The prize will be issued immediately as soon as a person appeals to the lottery directorate, the Echo of Moscow reports.

Currently, a rally is taking place near the Georgian Parliament building in Tbilisi. According to Izvestia.ru Sobkor Radio "Freedom" David Paichadze, there is no question of any coup. The basic requirements of the audience - either Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze sends the entire government to resign, or he himself leaves the post of head of the country. So far, the Minister of State Security resigned. As for the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, his president defended.

Two prisoners fled from the correctional colony in the village of Zavodskoy Primorsky Territory, Interfax reports. The press service of the regional police department reported that fugitives belong to the category of especially dangerous criminals. The police warns that 31-year-old Leonid Babovsky and 25-year-old Viktor Berestovsky can be armed and, most likely, are in Vladivostok. For information about their location, a large monetary reward is promised.

Osama Ben Laden in July 2001, a few months before the attacks in the United States, met with representatives of American intelligence. According to the French newspaper Le Figaro and Radio France International , the conversation between the CIA employee with Ben Laden was held in the American hospital in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. According to this information, Osama Ben Laden flew to Dubai by plane from the Pakistani city of Kvett on July 4 √ on the day of the US Independence.

In the English county of Yorkshire there was a funny robbery of the store, the Guardian newspaper reports. For a long time, the police enjoyed the shots captured by the security camera, on which a couple of teenagers tried to rob a store.

The commander of the united grouping of troops (OGV) in Chechnya Vladimir Lalterskaya denied the information that he had issued an order to suspend special operations against the leaders of Chechen gangs, Interfax reports.