In the USA, in the city of Pittsburgh, the elephant crushed an employee of the local zoo during a walk. According to the director of the zoo Barbara Baker, two rangers walked the eighteen -year -old African elephant and her three -year -old cub. According to her, the elephant suddenly stopped and for a long time did not move. When one of the caretakers tried to force the animal to continue the walk, the elephant hit him with his trunk and threw it aside.

The Australian Federal Police arrested a citizen of Australia, suspected of preparing terrorist attacks against Israeli diplomatic missions in the country. According to police representatives, 49-year-old Jack Rosh, a native of Great Britain, was arrested on Monday evening in his house, located in one of the southern regions of the Australian city of Peret.

In Tbilisi, the unknown people sawed the bronze sculpture "Evil the evil, the good will be" the work of Zurab Tsereteli. "The attackers managed to carry the figure of the dragon and the spear of George the Victorious on Monday evening, the press service of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs on Tuesday was told to Interfax. The sculpture was in Tbilisi in the square on the embankment of the Kura River. Law enforcement officers have already begun the search for kidnappers.

Boris Nadezhdin announced the deputy head of the Duma Soyuz Right Forces faction (ATP) today at a briefing for journalists that in the evening at an open meeting of the Federal Political Council of the ATP will be published the results of the work of the Public Commission of the ATP on the provision of medical care to former hostages injured in the theater center on Melnikova Street.

The US administration is preparing to resume nuclear weapons tests, which George Bush Sr., the father of the current president, stopped in 1992. This is evident from the memorandum of the Council for Nuclear Weapons, a government body that develops a US policy in the field of nuclear weapons. The text of the memorial note was at the disposal of the Night-Prider newspaper trust, Interfax reports.

15 Palestinians accused of participating in “terrorist activities” were arrested on the night of Monday on Tuesday of the Israeli army on the western bank of the Jordan River. This was reported by AFP with reference to Israeli military sources. In Nablus and Tulkarme (in the northern part of the west coast), 5 Palestinians were arrested.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation examined the complaint of the Krasnoyarsk governor Alexander Khloponin against the decision of the regional election commission, which recognized his victory in the elections on September 29.

NATO acquires new friends even far in the east of Moscow, Die Welt writes today. Shortly before the adoption at the Summit in Prague on November 21 - 22, decisions on the expansion of the Alliance, the Chinese government demonstrated its interest in the beginning of a political dialogue on security problems with the transatlantic defense union.

The Palestinian, who, at demonstrations in Berlin, changed his three children into suicide bombers, was convicted on Monday for five months conditionally. The district court in Berlin Tirgarten found the 33-year-old father of three children guilty of a crime.

The influential American newspaper The Wall Street Journal analyzes the situation around the sale of the Slavneft state oil company in Russia. According to the newspaper, the Russian government determined the starting price of the company of $ 1.7 billion - this is the highest figure in the history of Russian privatization.

Armed robbers shot a Austrian tourist on Tuesday in Guatemala, RIA Novosti was told by Austria. A group of armed people attacked a minibus, in which there was a 60-year-old Australia from Vienna, heading to Lake Atitlan, where she ordered a hotel from Antigua Guatemala. The bandits opened the shooting at the bus and mortally wounded the wreath. The remaining tourists in the minibus were robbed. The criminals disappeared and have not yet been found.

One of the most arrogant apartment thieves came across to the police of the Frunze regional department of the Ukrainian city of Kharkov. The 25-year-old housekeeper robbed the apartments of Kyivans, whose entrance doors were open. The thief passed the porch, in turn pressed the door handles, if the open door came across, went into the hallway and took what came across: clothes from hangers, shoes or ladies' handbags. A thief caught by accident.

On Tuesday morning, a robbery on the salon of slot machines, located near the house 2 on Shabolovskaya Street, was killed, as a result, a guard was killed. According to Interfax, sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, at about 10:00, unknown attackers broke into the game and tried to make a robbery. Active resistance to him was organized by the club guard Vyacheslav Krutov, a sergeant of the Office of the State Fire Service of the capital.

George Bush said that he considers it “very important” to make a visit to St. Petersburg to meet with Vladimir Putin. The US president said this on Monday on the eve of his trip to the NATO summit and to St. Petersburg. “In the fight against terrorism, I have a good friend in the person of Vladimir Putin,” Bush noted, emphasizing that the President of Russia, like himself, “knows that it was put on a map” in the war against terror.

The separatists of the Indonesian province of Achech on the island of Sumatra and the central government should sign a peace treaty on December 9, which will put an end to the 26-year conflict, AFP reports. “It still remains to solve a number of problems, but we expect the agreement on December 9,” ​​said the center of Henri Dunan, an independent organization based in Switzerland and has been speaking as a mediator between the conflicting parties for two years.