Foreign Minister Iraq Naji Sabri welcomed the refusal of Russia to support the US military action planned against Iraq.

US Air Force aircraft resumed patrolling in the sky of New York and Washington, RIA Novosti reports. Such patrolling was originally planned only on September 11 - the first anniversary of unprecedented terrorist acts. However, according to the CBS television company, the US special services recorded a surge of electronic messages (in particular, on the Internet) between the well-known members of Al-Qaeda, which forced the authorities to urgently resume air patrols.

The sisters of Williams are again outside the competition at the Tournaments of the "Big Slam". For the second time in a row, the final of the opening US Tennis Championship in a female category turns into a family duel Vinus and Serena. Two previous tournaments - the open championship of France and Wimbledon - won Serena. Visus, on the other hand, took the main prize from the younger sister last year's US Open and is still leading in a personal series against a sister with a score of 5: 4.

The Abkhaz special services have information about the founding of the republic in the Kodor Gorge on the territory controlled by the Georgian side, the Chechen and Arab terrorists, who were transferred there from the Pankisian gorge of Georgia.

In the center of Moscow, on Tverskaya Street near the McDonald`s restaurant, there was a fight between Irish and Russian football fans. According to Interfax, sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, at about 16:00 from the house on Tverskaya Street, where the restaurant is located, a signal of a mass fight was received. The police officers who arrived at the scene found out that about three dozen fans - Russian and Irish.

According to Echo of Moscow , a meeting of Georgia President Eduard Shevardnadze and former secretary of the Russian Security Council Ivan Rybkin was held in Tbilisi. During the negotiations, such topics were discussed as an attempt to prevent the escalation of tension in relations between Russia and Georgia, as well as ways to settle the Chechen problem.

In Germany, it was announced that the law enforcement agencies of the Baden-Württemberg land, in all likelihood, had prevented a large terrorist act planned for September 11 in the old university city of Heidelberg. This, as RIA Novosti reports, said the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Earth Baden-Württemberg Thomas Shoible on Friday evening in Stuttgart.

In the suburbs, fires continue to rage. Currently, more than 600 hectares of forest and peat, the Echo of Moscow reports with fire. This weekend, residents of Moscow and the region will not be able to go for mushrooms, since in all areas of the Moscow region, reinforced outfits of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are on duty, which are instructed to prevent people in the forest.

The traffic was completely stopped on the Trans-Siberian Railway due to the escape from the rails of 9 wagons of a freight train. According to ITAR-TASS in the Siberian regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies, the incident occurred at 09:25 Moscow time at about 185 km west of Novosibirsk. Among the wagons who came off the rails were three tanks with aviation kerosene. All of them turned over, kerosene flows from one.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that "Russia does not want to build an alliance with Belarus." In an interview with reporters on Saturday in Polotsk, he said that there are a lot of reasons for this. According to the president, opponents of the construction of the Union State "are many among members of the Russian government, as well as among rich people who want to criminalize Belarus and take it." “The reasons are also in the foreign policy factor,” Lukashenko said.

Gazprom OJSC and NAK NAFTOGAZ Ukraine with the participation of ministries of the energy of the two countries plan to prepare by October 7-10 of this year an intergovernmental agreement, including the basic conditions for the creation of an interstate consortium for transporting gas across Ukraine. This was announced on Saturday by the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexander Ryazanov in Nadym.

Due to the fire of peat bogs in the Moscow Region, 8 power supply lines turned off the high-voltage power lines on the high-voltage lines of power transmission, and the Minister of Printing and Information of the Moscow Region Government Andrei Barkovsky said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. The disconnects were made in Shatursky, Noginsky, Pavlovo-Posadsky, Orekhovo-Zuevsky and Yegoryevsky districts, he said. The gas supply to consumers was not stopped, Barkovsky added.

On the world volleyball championship passing these days, the second group stage launched. In the debut match in Bremen, the wards of Nikolai Karpol, who occupy the first place in the world rating list, defeated the Italian team with a score of 3: 2 (25:18, 24:26, 25:17, 21:25, 15:13).

On Saturday morning, the Constituent Congress of the new left-the Democratic Renaissance of Russia, which is expected to be headed by the State Duma speaker Gennady Seleznev, was opened in the column hall of the House of Unions, Interfax reports. More than 500 delegates of 71 regions will have to accept software documents, the charter of the party, to elect its governing bodies.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov called the actions of Tbilisi in the Pankisian gorge theatrical show. "This is a theatrical show, nothing more," said Ivanov. He accused Georgia of inaction to combat terrorists in the Pankisian Gorge. "I evaluate the stage art, directing and acting at" excellent. "For efficiency - zero," said Ivanov. The Minister once again demanded from Georgia the issuance of Chechen militants located in the Pankisian Gorge of Georgia.