On Tuesday, German police stormed the building of the Iraq Embassy in Berlin, freeing several diplomats taken hostage by members of the previously unknown opposition Iraqi group. No one was injured. Five participants in the capture of the embassy surrendered without resistance and were arrested. For five hours, the naked invaders of the embassy held about 10 hostages from among the embassy employees and thus protested against the despotic regime of Saddam Hussein.

Vladimir Putin held on Tuesday a working meeting with the Minister of Taxes and Gennady Bukaev. The president was, in fact, one question: what measures are taken to increase tax collection? The summarizing of the half -year from which the conversation began and Bukaev’s further explanations about the low collectivity, which, recall, led to the fact that the MNS chronically unwells the assignment to collect taxes to the budget began.

Air France, which operated on Tuesday flight on the route Paris - Oslo, made a forced landing in Brussels on Tuesday. According to RIA Novosti , the reason was an attempt by a naked “terrorist” to prevent the crew’s work. According to the representative of the Brussels airport, the ground service received a request from the ship commander for an unplanned landing. The pilot anxiously said that one of the passengers, having undressed naked, had a scandal in the cabin and was torn into the cab.

Former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich on Tuesday for the second time celebrates his birthday in the prison of the Hague Tribunal. According to RIA Novosti in the leadership of the Socialist Party of Serbia (ATP), the chairman of which is Miloshevich, his wife, Mira Mirkovaich, went to Hague. The three-year-old grandson of Marco and the daughter-in-law, Militsa Gaich, gathered to celebrate the 61-day of birth with him, but because of the illness they could not come.

New York forensic medical examination services published the first official list of victims that died as a result of the September 11 attacks during the collapse of the World Commercial Center, Interfax reports. The list includes 2819 names, which is 4 less than in the previous lists. 1229 dead are identified. Work on the search for the remains of the victims of the attack on September 11 were officially completed in New York on July 15 .

A criminal case was opened in Crimea against local residents who attacked the Kremenchug warship and stole the radio components in which there were precious metals, with a total cost of more than 21 thousand hryvnias (about 4 thousand US dollars), Interfax reports.

With a request to finance the restoration of the Kazan Cathedral of St. Petersburg, today, the Minister of Culture of Russia, Mikhail Shvydkoy Pol-Championship of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-West District, Viktor Cherkesov, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the plenipotentiary, “in fact, time is lost” - by the 300th anniversary of the Northern capital, her main shrine will not be fully restored.

A gigantic map of the capital, laid out of flowers, will appear by the City Day in Moscow. An unusual flowerbed will be created near the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky on Tverskaya Square, the Evening Moscow reports. City map of 80 square meters. m will become a lively decoration for the stage, according to the tradition of established by the city hall - a festive performance will be held against its background. The scheme of Moscow will be collected from 7 thousand colors planted in small pots.

Malaysia continues to bear plans to introduce a golden dinar as a single currency of all Islamic states. The initiator of the introduction of the calculation system in a single Muslim currency was the Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahammad Mahathir. He first published his proposal in June.

The price of the September futures contracts on the New York commodity exchange (NYMEX) on Monday reached the maximum of the last 15 months - $ 29.84 per barrel. Vloomberg believes that oil is getting more expensive thanks to the statement of the oil minister Kuwait Ahmed al-Sabah that OPEC at the next conference, which will be held on September 19, can maintain existing quotas for prey.

The Foreign Ministry of France today expressed an “extreme concern” by the decision of the Sharia Court of one of the northern provinces of Nigeria, who sentenced the young woman to death through stones “for adultery,” ITAR-TASS reports. "We urge the Nigerian authorities to show mercy and cancel this decision," the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The 30-year-old Amina Laval Kura, who is divorced by the mother of three children, gave birth to a girl named Vasil.

The Italian "Inter" rejected the proposal of Real Madrid about the exchange of the Brazilian striker Ronaldo, reports Ar. According to the Spanish media, Real Medical Media proposed for the best sniper of the past world championship Fernando Morestes and Flavio Conseo. The exchange was supposed to take place without the surcharge of one of the parties. It should be noted that Maryentes and conseo are about 50 million euros in total.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the day of mourning on August 22. This decision was made in connection with the Mi-26 helicopter disaster near Khankala in Chechnya, Interfax reports. The commander of the army aviation was removed from the performance of duties By order of the Minister of Defense, before the end of the investigative measures for violations, the commander of the army aviation, Colonel Pavlov General.

The Baron Arapkhanov’s gang, which includes suicide biases, penetrated the territory of the Vedensky district, a representative of the internal affairs department in the Chechen Republic said on Tuesday, Interfax reports. "In the Vedensky district of Chechnya, extremists intend to commit a terrorist attack against the special forces of the special forces company, which is headed by Ruslan Yamadaev," said the representative of the Department of Internal Affairs of Chechnya.

ORT, RTR, NTV and WTS on Thursday, August 22, cancel entertainment programs in connection with the announcement of the Tree Day in Russia. RIA Novosti was reported in the press services of television companies.