The forces of the Anglo-American coalition weakened the combat effectiveness of the two divisions of the Iraq Republican Guard by 50 percent, General Richard Mayers, the head of the United Committee of the Chiefs of Staff, said at a briefing on Tuesday. He also noted that, despite the losses suffered, parts of the guard continue to occupy defensive positions and resist. “We continue to fire,” he added.

The Moscow State -Emergency Supervision Service, with reservations, but agreed to “temporarily” to preserve the stalls with “quick food” on the streets of the city. As previously reported, from April 1, new sanitary standards for street food merchants entered into force . On Tuesday, by order of the chief sanitary doctor of Moscow, Nikolai Filatov should have closed all the street catering points not equipped with a main water supply and sewage.

The US military command on the basis of ESS in Qatar claims that the Iraqis began to shoot at the American units from the Ali mosque-one of the main Shiite shrines, ITAR-TASS reports. However, according to the representative of the US Armed Forces, the US military did not open a response. "The forces of the coalition make efforts aimed at protecting the Iraqi religious and historical monuments, and therefore did not open fire on the soldiers of the Iraqi regime, sown in the mosque," he said.

Russian Nikolai Khabibulin became a player of the month in the NHL. In March, Khabibulin did not lose, extending his series until 15 matches in a row. Largely thanks to his game, Tampa Bay got into the playoffs. Nikolai took part in the ten games of the team, and won seven of them. At the same time, the goalkeeper of the Florida club missed only 1.27 goals per match, and the percentage of the shots he had beaten was 95.3. So Tampa got into the playoffs for the first time since 1996.

Türkiye agreed to provide rear support to US troops in the north of Iraq. This was reported in Ankara by US Secretary of State Paulin Powell and the head of Turkish diplomacy Abdullah Gul after negotiations held by them.

On April 2, at 05.53 Moscow time from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Lightning Supreme Educational Institution Start was made in the interests of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Russian space forces, the purpose of launch is to withdraw to the high elliptical orbit of the spacecraft using the Lightning-M middle-class rocket to replenish the military satellite group.

The first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, who was on a trip to Japan, on Wednesday in an interview with ITAR-TASS shared the secrets of how he, in his own words, was able to lose 20 kg in some six months. “The recipe is very simple,” he said, “I just abruptly, three times, reduced my diet.” The 72-year-old Boris Yeltsin also noted that he has developed for himself 10 food principles based on his own practice and the development of international and Russian medicine.

The Middle Class Rocket "Lightning-M" at 6:50 Moscow time successfully brought the spacecraft of the Lightning series to the given orbit, which will work in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The Government of Great Britain promised to begin an investigation into cases of "friendly fire" in Iraq, which cost the life of five British military personnel. This was stated by the State Minister of Defense of Great Britain Lewis Muni. According to him, such incidents should not have occurred, since special systems of identification have been applied to the troops of the Allied forces since the 1991 Persian Gulf of Persian.

In Chechnya, the second Mi-24 helicopter and the dead members of its crew were discovered, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky, head of the press service of the Russian Air Force, said on Wednesday. The charred helicopter was found 2 km north of the location of the combat vehicle, found earlier, in the mountains of the Shata region. "Currently, employees of the search and rescue service are seized by" black boxes "and prepare for the evacuation of the body of the dead pilots," he said.

The Americans found a truck with prohibited missiles in Iraq. According to the British SkyTV , the trailer with two AS-Samud-2 missiles was found south of Baghdad, in the area where the coalition forces recently knocked out the Iraq army. Before the start of the war, we recall, Iraq announced that it destroys missiles, the presence of which was revealed by the UN Inspectorate. AS-Samud-2 missiles are prohibited, since their range of action is higher than the permitted 150 km.

The US Air Force fighter F-14 Tomcat suffered a disaster when performing a combat mission in the southwest of Iraq. This was reported by the CNN television company with reference to the information of the Central Command of the US Army. According to reports, both pilots have been baptized, and at present helicopters are delivered to Kuwait’s base, RIA Novosti reports. The causes of the aircraft disaster are not reported.

According to the US Ministry of Defense, from the beginning of the military operation in Iraq, 47 American soldiers died, 7 were captured, and 16 are listed as missing. Among the British captured or missing are not. Such data was presented today by the American media with the clarification that only those military personnel were included in this list of losses whose status was confirmed by the Pentagon or members of the families of the dead.

The scandalously known club of sexual minorities "Klon", closed in Yekaterinburg at the end of February, resumes its activities. According to the Blagovers-Info , citing the Ural Information and Analytical Agency "New Region", "ideology" of parties and the place of their conduct remain the same: the club is located on the second floor of the Rubin mod house and supports the ideas of free love.

In India, a param-padma supercomputer began to function with a capacity of 1 trillion operations per second. His official demonstration took place on Tuesday in the center of computer technology (CCT) of the city of Bangalor in the southern state of Karnatak. The cost of param-padma is 5 million US dollars, ITAR-TASS reports. Thus, India became the third country after the United States and Japan, which has a computer of such high power.