The Turkish army, unlike parliament, supports the government’s intentions to allow American military to the country. "The Turkish armed forces share the views of the government reflected in the bill, which was submitted to the parliament," said the head of the General Staff Hilmi Ozkok. “The war will be short if the second front is opened in the north,” the military added.

In Moscow, a citizen of Italy, 30-year-old Romano Graziano, was put on the wanted list. A foreigner is charged with the theft of a car. According to the source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, on February 25, the Italian took 43 Ford Mondeo at the box office of cars on Volgogradsky Prospekt. On time, the Italian did not return the car, and the head of the car rental company applied to the police with a statement about the loss of the car.

Alcoholism is also rampant in the UK. According to the latest data from the independent organization Alcohol Concern , every thirteenth adult Englishman is an inveterate drunkard. This is twice as much as the number of registered drug addicts. “The fact that more than three million people cannot live without alcohol for a day is alarming,” says Alcohol Concern, Eric Appleby.

Israel began on Tuesday, deploying the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system in the Tel Aviva area. The complex can be used to intercept the Iraqi Scud missiles in the event of a military operation against Iraq. About this on Wednesday writes the site of the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz . The Patriot complex will support the already installed Arrow missile system. On Wednesday, the same complex should be placed in the Jaffa area, in the south of the country.

The France Telecom holding, the second largest telecommunication company in Europe, completed 2002 with a record in France history in the amount of 20.7 billion euros. As the chief financier of the company Michel Combines said at a press conference, the main reason for tremendous losses is to write off assets in the amount of 18.2 billion euros. They outweighed the income of the company and ate a profit from operating activities in the amount of 6.81 billion.

On April 2, in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, a hearing of the 1999 world champion in the female single skating of Maria Butyr’s Figure Skating Federation of Russia should take place. Butyrskaya demanded that officials return the prize money for the 2002 European Championship she won and one of the stages of the Grand Prix series, which is about 40 thousand dollars, the Soviet sport reports.

March 5 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Sergei Prokofiev. The composer will give tribute to the composer's memory of his talent in Moscow. In the morning, flowers were laid on his grave in the Novodevichy cemetery, and during the day on television will show programs dedicated to the life and work of the classic. The third concert for the piano with the orchestra and the fifth symphony under the direction of Yuri Temirkanov will sound on the Culture TV channel. The documentary "Genius.

On Wednesday morning, in the city of Kotabato in the east of the Philippines, a homemade bomb exploded in one of the stores. The new attack, as a result of which no one was injured, occurred a day after the attack at the airport of the Southern City of Davao, as a result of which 21 people died and more than 100 were injured . According to Reuters, a small -power bomb exploded in one of the city's crown shops.

On the eve of the spring holiday in the metropolitan region, sharp temperature drops were recorded. At night, in some areas, the thermometer is dropped to minus 20 degrees, and during the day the temperature strives for zero mark. According to the Moscow Hydrometeorological University, now in the capital minus 13-15 degrees, in the center - about 10 degrees below zero. In the east of the region, a thermometer column reaches 23 degrees of frost.

In the Moscow Unitary Enterprise, Moszelenkhoz, Moscow Unitary Enterprise, was grown by more than a million tulips of 40 varieties by March 8. According to the Moscow Information Center, tulips with such unusual names as a “geyser 'or' Lambada 'will appear for the first time this year. Fringe, lily, peon, parrot - this is not a complete list of varieties of tulips only in the shape of petals and the flower cup itself. The color scheme is the most diverse - from almost black to white.

In Mexico, the mass pilgrimage of believers began to the place of the next miracle - right in the middle of the highway, on the asphalt a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary of Guidelupskaya appeared, especially revered in Central and South America. According to local residents, they tried to wash it with soap, but Madonna’s face does not disappear, they report to Vesti . The image gradually began to appear on the eve of the third day of the third month of 2003. Many consider this date magical.

In January 2003, Russia reduced the production of cars by 23.5% compared to January 2002. The Avtoselkhozhmash-Holding JSC, which coordinates the activities of the automotive and tractor-building enterprises of Russia, said that in January 2003 71 thousand 565 cars were produced in the Russian Federation. A year ago, 93.5 thousand were collected.

According to updated data, more than 110 people were killed and 500 were seriously wounded as a result of a clash between the shepherds and the inhabitants of the village of Dumne in the northeastern state of Nigeria Adamava. Among the dead are eight policemen and two soldiers. According to the Red Cross of Nigeria, the incident occurred in a remote, inaccessible area of ​​the state, and therefore, the victims were collected only by Tuesday.

On the 50th anniversary of Stalin’s death on the website of the Memorial Society , the shooting lists of people convicted by the personal sanction of Joseph Stalin and his closest associates under the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks were published to various punishment measures - the vast majority of the execution. Today, his great -grandson Vissarion Dzhugashvili intends to ask for political asylum in the United States.

The Supreme Court of Russia rejected the complaint of Muslims from Tatarstan to the instructions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which prohibits them to be photographed on a passport in scarves. Ten residents of Tatarstan disputed the provisions of the instructions "On the procedure for the issuance, replacement, accounting and storage of passports of citizens of the Russian Federation", approved by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of September 15, 1997.