Saudi Arabia will not allow to build Christian temples on its territory. This, according to RIA Novosti , told reporters in Er-Riyada the Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of Sultan Ben Abdel Aziz. “This earth was the cradle of Islam , and nothing can contradict this,” he emphasized.

With the support of the US administration, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Policy, Richard Lugar, submitted a bill that canceled the Jackson-Vanik-limiting trade relations of the United States and Russia adopted during the Cold War. The notorious amendment has been operating since 1974. Initially, she linked to the Soviet Union with the status of the greatest favors in trade with the United States with issues of Jewish emigration.

American intelligence received information that the Iraqi government threatens the inhabitants of the southern provinces of Iraq with death if they cooperate with the American military during their invasion of the country. This was stated on Tuesday by a representative of the US defense department.

The study conducted in the Great Ormond Street Hospital showed that the radical diet that simulates the consequences of starvation could "radically" reduce the number of seizures in children with severe epilepsy. The tests demonstrated that a diet, which is based on a strictly controlled menu consisting of a high fat content of fats, can reduce the amount of seizures in children who are not helped by ordinary anticonvulsants by 90 percent.

On Sakhalin, a cargo train collided with a minibus, two people died, three more were injured Two people died and three were injured as a result of a collision of a train with a minibus on railway tracks 250 km north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The emergency occurred at 11:10 PM Mondays local time at the regulated railway crossing near the station of the New Makarovsky district on the east coast of the island.

American General Tommy Frank, who, in the event of a war with Iraq, will lead the military operation, flew on Monday to the advanced headquarters of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces in Qatar. This, referring to sources in the main headquarters of the Central Command of the US Army, which is located in the city of Tampa of Florida, the Fox News television company said. However, representatives of the command refused to confirm the fact of the general departure to Qatar.

In Kamchatka, raids are held to identify adolescents drinking alcoholic drinks. The raids are organized according to the scheme of the Soviet era: they turn off the light in the room, then checking those who, in their opinion, have not reached the age of majority, offer to present documents. Young people who do not have passports are delivered to the department to clarify the individual. Drunk teenagers are sent to a narcological dispensary.

The organizers of the attack in the building of the Government House in Grozny in December 2002 , during which 70 people were killed and about 200 were injured, paid $ 400. According to the Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Sergei Fridinsky, these data were obtained directly from the organizers of the attack, which have already been detained. Two of the three detainees already give confessions, Friedinsky noted.

The first "alternatives" in the Novgorod region will have to choose between the work of the janitor and the orderly. For boys who in 2004 want to undergo an alternative service, a special vacancies bank would have been created in the Novgorod region. It is dominated by small specialties - such as a janitor, a watchman, a guard, a orderly, a plumber. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the head of the Department of the Federal State Employment Service of the Novgorod Region Ivan Korneev.

In an attempt to wake up her sleepy attack, Filadelphia acquired in the Fatering Star striker Tony Amonte. In return, a rather ridiculous compensation went to Arizona: striker the farm club Guillaume Lefevr, the third round of this draft, previously received from Atlanta, and the fourth round of the draft-2004.

The Georgian television company Rustavi -2 claims that the twins - Mahmud and Hussein were born in the Chechen Field commander of Ruslan Gelaev in the Pankisian gorge. In the plot from Pankisi, Chechen refugees do not confirm, but do not deny this fact. According to some refugees, at present, the wife of Gelaeva Malika and her twins are not in the gorge, reports Interfax.

In Moscow, the deacon of the Church of the Apostle Philip on Arbat Dmitry Gribov was subjected to robbery. As the investigation was established, the incident occurred on Sunday evening near the church. Two unknown people splashed the clergyman in the face of a gas spray, inflicted several blows over the face and body, tore a gold cross from the neck, stole a bag with documents and 6.5 thousand rubles. Compiled photobots of robbers. According to the victim, the criminals were 16-18 years old.

The South Korean "Church of the Muna association" announced the creation of its own political party, the electoral platform of which will be the "world and unification of the Korean Peninsula", ITAR-TASS reports.

The arrested Sheikh Mohammed was subjected to special processing for three days. Fearing for the fate of his children and the fact that he can poison him, the most devoted ally Ben Laden agreed to cooperate. The Pakistani military said immediately after its capture: “We need a few hours to capture the Osama. We will not do anything to your children,” Corriere Della Sera writes today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Within the framework of the nationwide program “Man 'Special Prize' for outstanding merits to Ukraine, they posthumously awarded an outstanding football player and coach Valery Vasilyevich Lobanovsky, the official website of Dynamo (Kiev) will be reported. At the ceremony, which was held on March 9 in the capital's 'Palace of Ukraine', a commemorative figurine to the daughter of Valery Lobanovsky - Svetlana - was awarded by the close associate of the master Oleg Petrovich Bazilevich.