In the capital, when trying to sell 7 kilograms of explosives and a large number of weapons, two criminals were detained. According to RIA Novosti in the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, on Tuesday evening, at the house number 54 on the street, the road operatives arrested two men. The sellers of explosives were the 41-year-old unemployed Muscovite and the 37-year-old deputy director of the commercial company, OJSC Moscow-Uzbek Hotel Commercial Complex.

In Primorye, unknown criminals robbed an entrepreneur for more than 500 thousand rubles, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Primorsky Territory. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening in the village of Shtykovo, Skotovsky district. According to law enforcement agencies, on the central street of the village of three, unknown in masks dressed in camouflage clothes, they blocked the entrepreneur’s car with their car.

Almost 300 US troops in Kuwait were delivered to the hospital after receiving food poisoning. During an examination on the basis in Oraifidzhan, most soldiers, sailors and marine infantrymen found symptoms of food poisoning. Doctors examined 271 soldiers, 13 of them still remain in the hospital. The USA sergeant David Dymux said that the results of laboratory tests of drinking water were negative.

In 2002, more than 460 women in Pakistan became victims of blood feud from their relatives for violating moral laws based on the Qur'an. This was reported on Wednesday by a non -governmental commission on human rights in Pakistan. According to the commission, the number of such crimes against women this year, compared with 2001, increased noticeably. Then, for violation of marital fidelity, unauthorized entry into marriage, 272 packages were killed.

The State Duma at a meeting on Wednesday adopted the federal budget for 2003 in the final, fourth reading. This event, as expected, was exclusively ritual in nature, since in the fourth reading only linguistic and technical and legal revision is possible. After a short discussion, 283 deputies voted for the adoption of the budget, there were no abstained against 119.

The first lady of Great Britain, Sheri Blair, publicly rejected attacks from the British media, who accuse her of business relations with the scandalously famous Australian businessman Peter Foster, who had served more than one prison term. The British press has already appropriated this scandal called Sherigate.

Currently, the auction for the sale of the state -owned company of the Slavneft’s oil company is participating in 14 applications. This was reported by ITAR-TASS by the representative of the Ministry of the Russian Federation on antitrust policy and support of entrepreneurship Larisa Bulgakova. She, like other officials, officially refuses to call the tender participating companies.

The gold and foreign exchange reserves of Russia for the period from November 29 to December 6 were reduced by $ 400 million. The last time the gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Bank of Russia were reduced as of October 18, that is, more than a month and a half ago. An equally significant fall - $ 400 million in one week - was not recorded at all from the very beginning of 2002, RBC notes.

Two Turkish fighters almost encountered a Greek military transport aircraft. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening in the airspace of Greece, RIA Novosti reports. Two F-16 fighters of the Turkish Air Force turned out to be only 150 m from the Greek military transport aircraft S-130 Hercules. This happened when the Turkish fighters pursued the airliner of Greece, defiantly violating the airspace of this country.

On Wednesday, a congress of the peoples of Chechnya opens in Grozny. It will discuss the issues related to the referendum under the Chechnya Constitution, as well as the upcoming elections to the authorities. The forum is supposed to accept the appeal to the people of Chechnya. As the chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Congress of Taus Dzhabrailov, the delegates were elected at the rate of one person from 5 thousand people of the republic, RIA Novosti reported.

200 former victims of the repressions of the Chilean military dictatorship filed a lawsuit against the state on Tuesday in the amount of $ 30 million as compensation for physical and moral damage, which inflicted Pinochet's regime. The lawsuit was filed with the Court of Appeal of Santiago. According to this document, each plaintiff must receive economic compensation for 100 million Chilean pesos, or about 140 thousand dollars, RIA Novosti reports.

The United Nations Commission for the Observation, Control and Inspection Commission (Unmovic) works for the third day in a row at the Iraq industrial enterprise, on which Uranus was enriched in the 1980s. Now, according to the Iraqi authorities, phosphate fertilizers are produced there. The complex for the production of phosphates in the city of El-Kaim is located in the desert in the western part of Iraq, on the border with Syria, 400 km west of Baghdad.

In the Western press, there was a “dangerous trend” to accuse of crimes committed by Muslim radicals, not the extremists themselves, but critics of Islam and representatives of other world religions, experts say the British Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity (III). It is reported by "Blagovest-info" with reference to the Relyigion Today.

The Formula-1 team is waiting for the second pilot, but at the same time he must bring the 'stable' of the new title sponsor. Many are now talking about financial difficulties in Jordan. However, the boss of the team of Eddie Jordan denied rumors about a difficult financial situation.

George Bush appointed the new chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) instead of the Harvey Pitt scandal of the scandal . SEC was headed by the famous investment banker William Donaldson. Donaldson, who is 71 years old, is currently leading his own company in New York. It is known as one of the founders of the Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette investment bank, which was acquired by the Swiss banking group Credit Suisse at the end of 2000.