A robbery of a police officer was committed in Grozny. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, a group of unknown armed persons in black masks attempted to put the weapons in the car and take away the junior sergeant of the Zavodskoye District Department of Internal Affairs Sulumbek Dashkarov. The policeman resisted, Interfax reports. The bandits opened fire, wounding Dashkarova. He was taken to a local hospital.

Omsk Avangard won today a home victory over the Moscow Dynamo with a score of 2: 1 and won the series up to three victories in the 1/4 finals of the Russian hockey championship, becoming the third semi -finalist. Earlier, the current champion of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv and Cherepovetskaya Severstal became ahead of scoys of the medals of the national championship.

The American or British rocket exploded on Sunday in the area of ​​one of the villages near the Turkish city of Urfa in the southeast of the country. No one was injured. A funnel with a diameter of 4 meters was found at the scene of the explosion. This was reported by the Japanese news agency Kyodo from the scene. According to experts, the rocket was supposed to fly through the territory of Turkey and hit the target in Iraq, but lost the course.

Entrepreneur Ramon Olier was faced with an unpleasant surprise when he flew from Barcelona to London in the first -class Liner interior British Airways. The flight was morning, and therefore passengers in the first grade were given a typical English breakfast - scrambled eggs with bacon. However, the appetite of the Spanish businessman at once disappeared when under the ovary he discovered someone's insertion jaw.

In the Libyan capital - Tripoli, the participants in the anti -war demonstration captured the Kuwait embassy on Sunday and, defeating it, raised the flag of Iraq over the building. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Vatan, referring to the words of eyewitnesses, the crowd broke the glass, hacked the doors of the diplomatic mission and, bursting inside, captured documents and the cash desk. Several people tore the flag of Kuwait from the roof, tore it and hoisted the flag of Iraq.

US culture figures "must do everything possible to stop the war in Iraq," said the famous film director Sergey Solovyov on Monday in an interview with ITAR-TASS.

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The units of the American marine infantrymen, with the support of artillery, continue to attack the South Iraqi city of En-Nassiria. According to Reuters correspondent, who is along with the marines in the southern part of the city, outbreaks from breaking shells are constantly observed over the En-Nassiria. The Lebanese television channel Al-Manar said today that about 40 American soldiers were killed in En-Nasiria. Official sources have not yet commented on this information.

Madrid “Real” broke away from the pursuers in the Spanish championship by three points. In the match of the next round, the metropolitan team won the deportivo - 2: 0. Thus, Real Madrid is three points ahead of the club Valery Karpin - “Real Sociedad”, which tied with “Vililareal” - 2: 2. “Deportivo” remained on the third line with 51 points, which is three less than that of Real Sociedad.

Iraqi television for the second time in a day was shown by Saddam Hussein. This time, the moment of the meeting of Saddam and his youngest son was captured on the film with the leader of the ruling party of Baas from Basra. On the film, the group sits around the table, everyone is silent. Reuters believes that the film is fresh, but this only fuels interest in the fate of the Iraqi leader, whom the Americans are trying to overtake bombing from Thursday.

During a search in one of the apartments in the center of Rome on Monday, carbineers found and seized 40 kg of cocaine. The confiscation was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Italy. According to the press service, the market value of the confiscated drug is 7 million euros, RIA Novosti reports. It was established that the owner of the apartment in which cocaine was discovered was the Colombian. He is arrested.

A meeting of the Coordination Council for the consideration of the integrated target project “The Renaissance and Development of the Valaam Archipelago” was held on the eve of the participation of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Karelia Alexander Mukhin, Chairman of the State Construction of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Alexander Efimov, representatives of other ministries, departments and organizations.

The command of the British armed forces in Iraq was recognized by the fact of the death of one of their soldiers in a battle near the city of Ez-Zubair, located between the Basra and the border with Kuwait. "We confirm that the British soldier died during a military operation at the village of Ez -Zubair in the south of Iraq," Reuters reports a representative of the British group command in Qatar.

Iraqi forces captured two British troops. According to BBC television company on Monday, their car was ambushed, which was arranged by Iraqi units defending the city of Zubair south of Basra. The official representative of the British command by the group of ground forces in Iraq, Marcus Divil, confirmed by the phone of RIA Novosti the fact of the disappearance of the two military personnel of Great Britain south of Basra. According to him, measures are currently being taken to search for them.

The command of the British armed forces in Iraq was recognized by the fact of the death of one of their soldiers in a battle near the city of Ez-Zubair, located between the Basra and the border with Kuwait. "We confirm that the British soldier died during a military operation at the village of Ez -Zubair in the south of Iraq," Reuters reports a representative of the British group command in Qatar.