EU Commissioners Gunter Ferkhoigen and Pascal Lami proposed uniting Germany and France into the State Union. In an article published in the German Berliner Zeitung and in today's French press, they require the creation of government institutions common to both countries. Berlin and Paris will have to strive for a joint foreign policy, security policy, as well as a unified financial policy.

In the south of the state of California, unknown people mortally wounded a 7-year-old child. In the city of Comton, unknown, driving through the streets, opened shooting from the car. According to Lieutenant Police, Anthony Ward, while a 7-year-old boy was mortally wounded with several bullets. The ambulance was urgently delivered to the local Hospital of St. Francis. Despite the attempts of doctors to save the life of the child, the boy died a few hours later, RIA Novosti reports.

Muslims of Russia advocate that in secondary schools they teach not only the basis of Orthodoxy, but also Judaism and Islam. This was announced today at a press conference in RIA Novosti " Chairman of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia and the European CIS countries (TSDU) Supreme Mufti Talgat Tajuddin . “Everything should be collected in one book, because any cultural person should know about all the traditional denominations operating in the country,” he emphasized.

The UK will send 26 thousand soldiers to the Persian Gulf area to participate in a possible operation against Iraq, the Minister of Defense Jeff Hong said on Monday, speaking in the House of Commons. According to him, the transfer of troops has already begun, and the British forces in the Persian Gulf will exceed in their number a contingent involved in the 1991 war.

At the end of 2001, the creator and leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist group, at the end of 2001, managed to break out of the encirclement of American troops in the Tora-Bor mountains in Afghanistan thanks to the trick of his bodyguard Abdullah Tabarak, Moroccan by origin. The newspaper The Washington Post made this statement with reference to information received from the unnamed high -ranking officials of Morocco.

Canadians received a warning that wearing things depicting a red maple leaf (Canada symbol) is now dangerous - especially while traveling to Arab countries. Citizens of Canada should be afraid of retaliation for the fact that their homeland is prohibited by the Islamist movement "Hizballah", based in Lebanon. The warning sounded from the recently arrived ambassador Livan Reimonda Baaclinini, whose statement was published in the Arab newspaper Sada Al Machric.

The Higher Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq (Vsiri) has information about the presence of chemical weapons in Iraq and is ready to provide it if the UN appeals with the corresponding request and recognizes this party officially. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of Vsiri Abdulaziz Hakim, RIA Novosti reports. "We really have documents on the presence of OU at Sadam Hussein, but the UN has not yet asked us to provide these materials," he said.

About 180 doctors were sentenced by the court of the Italian city of Milan to various terms of imprisonment for fraud. These doctors of one of the private clinics received large commission for ordering their patients to take tests, which was not necessary, and only in this center. In most cases, patients were not for doctors, but payment for this service was regularly transferred by the National Health Service to a private clinic.

The militants of the Lebanese terrorist organization "Hizballah" attacked the posts of the Israeli army stationed in the area of ​​the shabaa farms. This area borders with Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Golan Heights, also occupied by the Israeli army. This is the first manifestation of the activity of the rebels in this area over the past four months.

Chancellor Germany Gerhard Schroeder withdrew his lawsuit against the Merkische Oderzeitung newspaper Frankfurt, in which she was forbidden to "disseminate false information" about his intra-family affairs. This was announced on Tuesday in Berlin Chancellor’s lawyer Michael Nesselhauf during the hearing of the case in the land court of the capital of Germany.

In the near future, the US FBI office will open in Tbilisi. This was announced by the Minister of State Security of Georgia Valery Haburdzania. According to him, the decision on this was made on Tuesday during the meeting of representatives of the FBI with President Eduard Shevardnadze in Tbilisi, Interfax reports. According to him, the FBI offices in the post -Soviet space are open only in Russia and Ukraine, in total, they were created in 45 countries of the world.

It remains only two months before the day when they should put up for sale a new means of transportation, which, in their opinion, will supplant all competitors from the streets. However, the creators of Segway are faced with great difficulties. Segway Human Transporter is an original two -wheeled scooter with an electric motor. This device recently was considered a new breakthrough in the field of high technology.

During the special operation in the village of Staryi Atagi in the Shali district of Chechnya, federal forces destroyed the cache belonging to the militants with weapons, which stored the portable anti-aircraft missile system "The needle". This was announced by the head of the press service of the united group of troops in the North Caucasus Colonel Nikolai Baranov. According to him, MANPADS could be used at any time, as he was in combat equipment.

The United States is determined to engage in the disarmament of Iraq and, if necessary, are ready to do this without the UN. This was said by the press secretary of the White House Ari Fleisher during a brief meeting with reporters today.

The Tver Court of the capital, the third day considering the claims of 24 former hostages and relatives of those who died in a terrorist attack on Dubrovka, to the present moment he heard the explanations of 15 claims in 11 claims. On Tuesday, Interfax told the lawyer of the victims Lyudmila Trunov, Nikolai Volkov, who had lost the 22-year-old daughter Elena as a result of the attack, testified in court.