The International Tribunal in The Hague does not exclude the possibility of accepting the case of war crimes in Abkhazia. This was announced on Tuesday by the commissar of the tribunal of Vanessa Le Roy, writes Rosbalt . According to her, in the territory of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia, during the Georgian-Abkhaz war, a number of terrifying crimes were committed, which are still not investigated.

At least 17 people, including children, died as a result of a container explosion with pyrotechnics, which occurred on Tuesday in the Pakistani city of Siiyalcot (in the east of the country), reports AFP with reference to the local police. An explosion of a 12-meter container with pyrotechnics occurred at the Customs Terminal Sambriyal in a suburbs of Siyalcot, the police officer Said Ahmed Gondal told AFP.

In Finland, a Russian citizen was detained on Tuesday, who opened shooting at the City Market store in the city of Lappenranta. In the duty part of the police, the city of Lappperanta confirmed that the shooter is a Russian citizen. He discovered not aimed fire from a multifaceted hunting rifle in the food department of the store, after which he left the gun and went out. The constable duty officer noted that during the detention of the "shooter" he did not resist.

On Tuesday, it was a message that the British police at the London Airport Heathrow detained the American rock star, the soloist of the Hole Group Courtney Love. Representatives of the Virgin Atlantic airline, which a 38-year-old widow of the Nirvana soloist Kurt Kobaina flew from Los Angeles to London, said that she had violated order on board. According to representatives of the airline, the singer “verbally insulted” the crew of the aircraft. Courtney Love flew in a business class salon.

In the coming days, a serious thaw in Moscow is not expected, the metropolitan hydrometer reported. The harsh Scandinavian anticyclone firmly holds its position and prevents the influence of warm Atlantic cyclones. According to weather forecasts, slight warming - up to minus 4 - 6 degrees is expected in the capital on Thursday, and by Sunday it will get colder again, reports ITAR -TASS. In the afternoon in the capital, the temperature in different areas was from minus 14 to minus 20 degrees.

Privatization of Slavneft may cost its organizer, head of the Russian federal property of Vladimir Malin, 20,000 rubles. This is, by the way, three menstruation salaries of the state official. The fine on the head of the Russian Federation imposed one of the courts of Dagestan for not allowing the company's state -owned company Rosneft to participate in the auction for the sale of 75% of Slavneft shares.

The emergency occurred in the 76th division of contractors in the Pskov region. When performing training jumps from a height of 800 meters, one of the contractors did not open the parachute. The 21-year-old guy miraculously survived, but is now in extremely serious condition in one of the Pskov hospitals.

The Malaysian citizen is arrested in Indonesia, the “main organizer”, as representatives of the Indonesian police, a terrorist act on the resort island of Bali in October last year, announced on Tuesday. Then almost 200 people died from the explosion of a powerful bomb, mainly foreign tourists. The arrest was made in one of the cities in East Java. Through the arrested Nurdin Mohammad, it is believed that the attack was funded in Bali.

After the meeting between Lennox Lewis and Hasim Rahman, South Africa wants to organize a rematch between Lewis and Mike Tyson on his land. One of the most famous promoters of the South African Republic Rodney Berman, who, by the way, organized a meeting of Rahman and Lewis in Africa, has already taken up the case. Berman promised to make every effort so that the match took place in South Africa.

The four-time world champion American Michel Kwan refused to participate in the Grand Prix finals in St. Petersburg. According to Kwan, she made the decision not to participate in the Grand Prix back in September. The consent to speak at the first stage of the series - "Skate America" ​​- Michelle gave only at the request of the organizers due to the fact that several skaters, including the Salt Lake City Sarah Hugues, withdrew the competitions.

The next seventh crew of the ISS will not be able to change the astronauts of the previous expedition as planned, said Valery Ryumin, deputy general designer of the Russian Space Corporation Energia. Russians Yuri Malenchenko, Alexander Kaleri and American astronaut John Filps were supposed to start at the ISS in March on an American reusable ship. But now, after the COLUMBIA shuttle disaster, all shuttle flights are canceled for an indefinite time.

On February 5-8, the Second Moscow Beer Forum will be held in the Sokolniki Cultural and Exhibition Center, during which the competition "Best Beer of the Year" will be held. This was announced on Tuesday by a source in the metropolitan administration. As part of this event, three tastings of various varieties of beer will be organized. At the same time, beer not specially brought by manufacturers, and what is sold in retail in capital stores and on trays, will be presented for testing.

The Federal Security Service of Russia detained the author of anonymous threats about the preparatory terrorist attacks at air transport facilities. According to Tuesday at the Center for Public Relations of the FSB, a resident of Astrakhan - P. Bashilov, a native of the Krasnodar Territory, was established and detained during the operational -search measures.

Almost 1.2 million foreign pilgrims arrived in Saudi Arabia for Hajj . As the correspondent of RIA Novosti reports, the Higher Law Committee of the Kingdom determined that the central rite of pilgrimage to the holy places of Islam - standing at Mount Arafat - will take place on February 10. According to the calculations of the committee, over 2 million pilgrims will perform this rite, preceding the offensive on February 11 of the main Muslim holiday "Ida Al-Adha" (a holiday of sacrifice).

President Saddam Hussein accused the United States and the UK of the desire to unleash the war against Baghdad and rejected the statements about the presence of contacts between the leadership of Iraq and the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The Iraqi leader said this in an interview with British policy Tony Benn, who is in Baghdad. Excerpts of the interview showed today the fourth channel of British television Channel 4.