On Wednesday morning in the north of France, in the Soma department, the body of 18-year-old Kristel Dubuisson with a cuts with a cuts was found on a path, on which the girl often walked, visiting her father. According to Euronews , over the past six months in this area of ​​France, three killings have already occurred. The first victim in January of this year was 24-year-old banking employee Elodi Kulik. Before her death, she was raped.

Investigators of the FSB of Russia will carry out the whole range of investigative actions against a terrorist who threatened on Thursday to blow up a car on Lubyanka.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation ahead of the payment schedule made on Friday the next payment to the International Monetary Fund for External Defense. The IMF received 26.2 million euros (about 19.468 million SDR) to repay the principal amount of debt. According to Interfax, the payment was made ahead of the deadline, since on the schedule of its date - August 25 - falls on Sunday. This payment is the third and final in the current month.

On Sunday, in Moscow and the Moscow Region will get warmer. On Saturday in the capital's region, cool weather will still remain: variable cloudy, in the east of the Moscow Region, short-term rains, the temperature of the air at night, plus 6-8, 4-9 degrees of heat in the region, in the day of 14-19 degrees of heat, northeast wind, 3-7 meters per second, ITAR-TASS in Roshydromet, in the region.

As reported on Friday in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Rostov Region, the body was found on a street in the Voroshilovsky district of the city. According to preliminary data from the examination, the soldier committed suicide, RIA Novosti reports. In fact, an investigation is carried out.

In the Central Chinese province of Hunan, a threat of catastrophic flood is growing. According to Chinese media, at least 3 people died, more than eight million people were in the distress zone over the past week in Hunan due to long storm rains. The water in Lake Duntinhu - the second largest freshwater lake of China, equal in area of ​​the Principality of Luxembourg, arrives, threatening to break through protective dams with a total length of 1.8 thousand kilometers.

Three people were killed and somewhat injured as a result of bombing by Russian military aviation the territory of the Pankis gorge, Interfax reports. This was announced on Friday by a source in the administration of the Akhmetsky district. Zurab Tushuri, head of the Kakheti police, said that information about the victims among the residents of the village of Bhakrevi PaniSky district is double -checked. “Among the population of the Pankis gorge there is a panic,” he said.

The Federal Migration Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation intends to tightly tighten control over foreign citizens arriving at work in Russia. This was announced by the head of the FMS of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Andrei Chernenko. According to him, the law "On the legal status of foreign citizens in Russia" has already been adopted in Russia, which will enter into force on November 1, 2002.

Lieutenant Colonel of the Chechen police, Sydi Ahaev, was killed on Friday morning in the village of Prigorodnoy, Grozny district of Chechnya, located 5 km from Grozny, Interfax reports. The head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic Said Peshkhoev said that Akhaev left the house at about 7 a.m. to go to work and was shot from automatic weapons by unknown 10 meters from the gate.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the course of the investigation finds more and more violations in the activities of the Aol Time Warner media giant. According to Financial Times , SEC now intends to study a series of high forecasts published by the company. The fact is that fifteen managers and directors of AOL received 500 million.

Japan's Foreign Minister Ioriko Kawaguti examined on Thursday from a helicopter two out of four, part of the Kuril ridge. This step was taken on the eve of her meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, at which the Kuril issue will be discussed, Interfax reports. It is he who prevents the conclusion of a peace treaty between Russia and Japan, which has not yet been signed since 1945.

It turns out that the lionesses are attracted by males with a dark and lush mane more than lions with light and short. This conclusion was reached by scientists, the results of the research of which are today published in the American journal Science .

President of Bashkiria Murtaza Rakhimov with special decrees allowed the sale of shares of large fuel and energy and petrochemical companies of this republic. "Kommersant" calls this decision revolutionary: so far the petrochemical market of Bashkiria has been considered closed to third -party investors. It is still unclear what kind of shares packages and on what conditions will sell the holdings of Bashneftekhim and the Bashkir Fuel Company, indicated in the decree of Rakhimov.

The American military command in South Korea reported the disappearance of the APACH AN-64 combat helicopter, which made a training flight with two pilots on board, RIA Novosti reports. The helicopter flew on Thursday from a military base located about 80 km from Seoul, and did not arrive at the destination. The South Korean National Police joined the search for the missing helicopter. The work of rescuers is difficult to bad weather.

The Vatican will take part in the World Sustainable Development Summit, which will be held in Johannesburg (South Africa) from August 26 to September 4, 2002, RIA Novosti reports. A delegation of seven people will be headed by a permanent representative of the Vatican at the UN Renato Martino.