The Iraqi authorities claim that the British military found the remains of Iraqi soldiers who were killed in the war with Iran of 1980-88 under the Basra. This was reported to the Catar television channel Al-Jazeera by one of the representatives of the Iraqi leadership, who wished to maintain anonymity. The day before, the British found on an abandoned military base, in the southern part of Iraq, coffins with the remains of 200 people , as well as a catalog of photographs of the dead people.

In connection with the shelling near Baghdad, columns with Russian diplomats, Russia should "demand not only the safe departure of diplomats from Iraq, but also the most thorough investigation of the circumstances of the attempt on the life of Russian citizens." This was stated on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Dmitry Rogozin.

An unusual protest against the war in Iraq took place on Sunday in the center of Madrid. At the concert under the slogan "For international legality and the termination of the war in Iraq", in which the 20 most popular Spanish artists and ensembles took part, from 600 thousand to 800 thousand people gathered. The final manifesto read with his daughter the famous Madrid judge-interrogator for particularly important cases Balthasar Garson.

The previously unknown opposition to the Baghdad regime, the group "Council of Iraqi Unity", appeared in Iraq. Today, the Katar television channel Al-Jazeera showed three people dressed in masks who call themselves members of the Council leadership and hiding behind fictional names.

Both bullets extracted from the Russian diplomat wounded in Iraq were from the M-16 automatic rifle, which are in service with the US Army. This was announced today on the air correspondent for the RTR television company in Baghdad, Alexander Minakov, who was in the column of Russian diplomats and journalists, which was fired today near Baghdad.

Russian Anastasia Myskina reached the finals of the tennis tournament in the American Sarasot, where she will meet with Australian Alisia Molik. In the semifinals, the first racket of Russia won the Frenchwoman Natalie Deschi - 6: 2, 6: 4. Interestingly, for both athletes, going to the final became the second this season. So, Molik first played and won the decisive match at the tournament in Hobart, and Myskina won the competition in Qatar.

Reuters reports that on Sunday the British tanks reached the center of Basra - the second in the boket of the city of Iraq, which keeps the defense from the very beginning of the military campaign. The unnamed British officer reported on the military successes of the coalition forces. “Yes, this happened,” he said, answering the question of whether the Iraqis were leaving Basra when he saw the Tanks of the Allies in the city center.

The US Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbou expressed extreme concern in connection with the reports of the shelling under the Baghdad of the Russian column. "We are extremely preoccupied with what happened and do everything possible to clarify the circumstances," the ambassador said on Sunday after visiting the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The Ambassador of Russia to Iraq Vladimir Titorenko, together with a group of employees of the Russian diplomatic mission, left Baghdad on Sunday in the direction of Damascus. This was reported to "Interfax" a source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the upcoming Monday and Tuesday will meet in Northern Ireland. As ITAR-TASS reported in the residence of the British Prime Minister, Bush and Blair will discuss "political, military and humanitarian aspects of the situation in Iraq and the prospects for the Middle Eastern settlement, taking into account the" road map "project.

The pacifist from the USA Brian Albra was seriously injured in the Palestinian city of Jenin on the western bank of the Jordan River. There are several versions of what happened, however, according to the most commonly cited sources, late in the evening on Saturday, Albr tried to block the path of the Israeli army armored personnel carrier, moving towards the residential areas of Jennin, RIA Novosti reports.

Dozens of large mines fell on Sunday to trade and residential quarters in the center of the Iraqi capital. The charges released from large -caliber mortars are evidenced by foreign journalists who remained in Baghdad, fell a few kilometers from the hotel where they live. At the site of Ming breaks in the residential areas of Baghdad, high pillars of smoke are visible, ITAR-TASS reports.

Ottawa Senators, which is still looking for its new owner, ended the season on a high note, winning 3: 1 at Toronto Maip Lifs. In total, the winner of the regular championship has 113 points. The first goal "Ottawa" scored a second before the end of the first period, and the second one and a half minutes after the start of the second.

On 05.04.2003, 2 thousand 353 cases of nonpipic pneumonia were registered in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 84 people have already died from this disease. There is no atypical pneumonia in Russia - two suspicious cases in Vladivostok and Novosibirsk were not confirmed, the patients were sick with acute respiratory viral infections and ordinary pneumonia, ITAR -TASS reports.

In anticipation of this match, it was thought that there would be no serious struggle, since Spartak has not yet been a team that could have a serious resistance in the struggle for the championship. Only at times Oleg Romantsev’s wards showed a game worthy of the money that were invested in the club in the off -season.