In Kuwait, an American soldier died as a result of an accident. Four more were injured. The CNN television company, citing the Pentagon, said that the accident occurred near the army camp Arithjan in Kuwait. The Pentagon emphasizes that an investigation of the causes of the accident is being conducted. The names of the victims of the incident are not reported, since relatives have not yet been notified of the incident, RIA Novosti reports.

In Saudi Arabia, the Council of Ulemov (scientists-theological) issued a fatwa prohibiting attacking non-Muslims and destroying their property, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The council uniting prominent theologians and lawyers is the highest spiritual authority in the kingdom. He has the right to publish religious legal judgments, interpreting the provisions of Islam and determining the attitude of Muslims to various problems. Believers are required to follow the instructions of Fatv.

The Federal Commission for the Securities Market of the Russian Federation canceled the order of its regional branch in the Central Federal District dated January 25, 2002 "On the cancellation of state registration of securities of the open joint -stock company" Babaevsky ". According to the press release of the FCCB of the Russian Federation, the commission made this decision on February 4, 2003.

The chairman of the French Central Bank threatens 10 months of prison - conditionally. If the court agrees with the requirements of the public prosecutor, Jean-Claude Trisha will have to say goodbye to the plans to head the European Central Bank, the Vedomosti reports. On Wednesday, the state prosecutor demanded to be sentenced to Trisha by 10 months of prison (conditionally).

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov said that in 2003 Russia will send a detachment of warships from the Pacific and Black Sea Fleets to the Indian Ocean. "The composition of the squadron is quite impressive - about 10 warships, including surface, underwater and large landing," he told reporters on Friday upon arrival in Munich.

On Friday, the Duma commission on ethics at its meeting intends to deal with the issue of the reliability of the facts of obscene public behavior of the vice-speaker of the chamber Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The reason for this was his obscene statements addressed to US President George Bush, widely replicated in the Russian media.

The body of a woman with gunshot wounds was found on the eve of 15:00 in the Leninsky district of the Moscow region. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, the corpse was found in the forest 200 meters from the road, reports 'MK-News' . This section of the road connects the 30th kilometer of the Staro-Kashirsky highway with the village of Gorki Leninsky. According to the examination, the woman unknown criminals killed in the stomach and chest with shots.

The US Federal Agency for Products and Medicines is investigating reports that pigs used in the experiments on genes modification experiments, reports Today Today . The newspaper writes that as a result of genetic experiments, 386 piglets were born at Illinois University. Scientists added cow geners to their organisms, designed to increase the amount of milk during feeding, as well as synthetic genes that increase the digestibility of milk pigs.

Oksana Manilova - a 17 -year -old schoolgirl from the city of Demyansk, Novgorod Region, drew up a map of the disappeared Orthodox chapels, RIA Novosti reports. According to Oksana, in total in the Demyansky district, according to archival data, in 1916 58 chapels operated. During the Great Patriotic War, most chapels were destroyed and only 4 chapels remained by the present time.

The United States joins the world's largest research project to create a new source of energy based on nuclear synthesis. This was announced on Thursday in Washington, US President George Bush. The project is already participating in the EU, Russia and a number of other countries. The President announced that he had requested 1.2 billion dollars from the US Congress in the new federal budget for the creation of a new type of hydrogen fuel car.

During the investigation of the explosion of the Tavria car near McDonald's on Kokdashkin Street on October 19 last year, law enforcement officers of the capital entered the terrorist network operating in Moscow and the Moscow Region, which was prevented by several terrorist attacks. This was announced in an interview with the program "Man and the Law" on Channel One Deputy Head of the operational-search part of the Moscow Military District of the Moscow Institution Evgeny Taratorin.

The II Congress of the Association of Orthodox Youth of Belarus was opened on the eve of Minsk, in the premises of the temple in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "of all mourning joy." According to the Blagovet-Info agency in the press service of the Belarusian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (BPC MP), not only representatives of the Orthodox youth organizations of Belarus, but also guests from Russia, Poland and from Ukraine take part in the congress.

Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is interested in buying a prestigious house on Canal Grande, which used to be located the San Gregorio abbey, and the magnificent Gothic courtyard of the XIV century, a stone's throw from Basilica Della Saluta. The cost of acquisition is estimated at approximately 15 million euros. The Auction House Finarte-Semenzato, which put up this real estate for sale, does not comment on these rumors.

In Columbia, a small two -engine aircraft disappeared on Thursday, on board which was the Minister of Social Support of this Latin American country Juan Ludono and several of his assistants. Together with the Minister, there were four people on the plane: Londono assistant, security officer, first and second pilots. The plane was heading from the capital of the Department of Tolim, Ibaga, to the city of Tabyan (Kauka Department), where the minister planned to hold a meeting, ITAR-TASS reports.

The captain of the Prestige Tanker, who sank in November last year off the coast of Spain, was released from the guard on bail of three million euros. The Apostleus Mangura spent 80 days in the prison of the city of La Corunia, where he was placed by decision of a judge investigating his guilt in the crash of the vessel. The deposit for the captain was paid by the insurance company London Steamship, which at one time insured the tanker.