At least 8 people died during the parliamentary elections held on Saturday in Nigeria. According to a group of observers from the Institute of Democracy of South Africa, cases of "violence, threats, destruction of property and murder of people" were noted in the states of Rivers, Baels and Delta. In the clashes on political grounds in the Nembe region between representatives of the nationalities of Ijo, 5 people were killed.

On Sunday, Kurdish television reported that the forces of the anti -Irac coalition captured Saddam Hussein, Vatbana Ibrahim, who tried to get to Syria. "Watban Ibrahim, Saddam's half-brother, who in the past held the post of Minister of Internal Affairs of Iraq and other responsible positions, was captured today by the coalition in Rabia," to the north-west of Mosul, KTV reported.

The inhabitants of Baghdad went on Sunday to a demonstration of protest against US policy, who do nothing to restore normal life and order in the Iraqi capital.

American troops entered Tikrite on Sunday - the hometown of Saddam Hussein and the last major city of Iraq, which was still under the control of Iraqis. This was stated by the head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces, General Tommy Frank, reports Reuters. According to him, the advancing American troops do not meet resistance.

In Kiev, the operator of the Reuters agency Ukrainian Taras Prostyuk, who died during the shelling of Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, was buried in Kiev on Sunday on Sunday, RIA Novosti reports. For the past 10 years, the 35-year-old Protsuk has covered military conflicts in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Kosovo. The journalist had a wife and an eight -year -old son. The day before, the body of the prosperity was delivered to Kyiv.

A fire in a covered parking lot in the east of the capital has been extinguished. As reported to RIA Novosti by the capital's State Fire Service, the fire in the building of a former furniture factory at 42 4th Grazhdanskaya Street, where the parking lot was located, began at about 11:00 Moscow time. 17 fire brigades went to fight the fire. The area of ​​open burning was about 600 sq. m. At 12:35 Moscow time, firefighters managed to control the fire and completely extinguish the building.

Last week was celebrated in Chechnya by a number of appearance with a confession into law enforcement agencies of participants in illegal armed groups (NVF) and the voluntary issuance of their weapons stored. This was announced today by ITAR-TASS by a representative of the regional operational headquarters for managing a counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus Colonel Ilya Shabalkin.

In Moscow, criminals, dressed in police uniforms, robbed a German citizen and a citizen of Afghanistan. Sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital told Interfax on Sunday that on Saturday, a German citizen working at one of the Moscow factories, who said that on the street of 1812, three unknown people in Militsa uniforms approached the police on Saturday.

Houston Rockets retained the chances of getting into the playoffs, winning the next match of the Seattle Super Cosnix regularly championship - 101: 86. The main characters of the meeting were the leaders of Houston Kattino Mobe and Steve Francise, who scored 17 points each. In this match, not only leaders, but the whole team jumped above the head, showing a fifty percent indicator of the implementation of shots from the game, which is a rare case for the NBA.

Russian Nikolai Davidenko won the main trophy at the tennis tournament in the Portuguese Estoril, whose prize fund is 525 thousand euros. In the final mast, Davidenko was defeated by the Argentine to Argentine Agustino Galieri. The match, lasting 1 hour and 16 minutes, ended with a score of 6: 4.6: 3 in favor of the Russian. Thus, Davidenko has the second title this year. Earlier, in January of this year, a native of Severodonetsk won the tournament in Australian Adelaide, RIA Novosti reports.

Serena Williams continued her victorious series this season. On Monday night, she will play in the final match of the Family Circle Cup tournament. To do this, in the semifinals, she won the Lindsay Davenport. In total, there is 21 victories and not a single defeat this year. Davenport was able to resist only two sets - 6: 1, 7: 5. Now Serena will meet with the Belgian athlete, Justine Enin-Hardenne.

Tikrite, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, is completely surrounded by American troops, negotiations with the city authorities are underway on surrender, Kuwait's Kuna news agency reports. According to the agency, on Sunday morning, the American units began to advance to Tikrit from the north, leaving the southern roads free, through which the city left thousands of inhabitants and the Iraqi military who left their positions.

In accordance with international law, all responsibility for ensuring the needs of the Iraq population in the humanitarian sphere must bear the occupation forces. This was stated on Sunday by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Yakovenko. Answering the question of journalists, he once again confirmed that in Moscow, the humanitarian situation in Iraq causes growing concern.

Jessica Lynch, an American soldier, rescued from captivity in Iraq, returned home to the United States aboard a transport aircraft, BBC reports. From the side of the aircraft, she fell directly on the stretcher, like 49 other wounded. Then Private Lynch was delivered with an escort of cars to the main army medical center in the suburbs of Washington. She has long -term medical treatment for injuries, including arms fractures and both legs.

If weapons of mass destruction in Iraq are detected, independent experts must be certified by its authenticity. This point of view was expressed today by British journalists, the Minister of Defense of Great Britain Jeff Hong. “It is very important that objective control is made at the same time,” he said in an interview with BBC, adding that it “can be Unmovic or another international organization,” which occupies inspections in this area.