The United States will form a new Iraqi army from the Kurds, says the Kuwaitskaya newspaper of As-Ssyas. Next week, six thousand Kurdish fighters will be transferred to Baghdad, who, together with the American units, will ensure order in the Iraqi capital, the publication writes on Sunday. The Americans consider the Kurds loyal power, the newspaper writes, referring to American sources.

A curious black and white photo hangs on the wall of the headquarters of the Italian “Milan”. The captain of the Red-Blacks holds the European Champions Cup over him. This captain is Cesare Maldini, and the photograph was dated 1963 when Milan won this trophy from the Portuguese Benfica. It is symbolic that this trophy was won precisely in the English stadium "Wembley".

The mass demonstration of protest against the government project of the pension reform took place on Sunday in the French capital, RIA Novosti reports. According to law enforcement agencies, approximately 300 thousand people took part in the manifestations. The organizers of the protest rally call twice as many demonstrators.

Four more residents of Hong Kong aged 69 to 74 years today have become victims of the Chinese city of epidemics of atypical pneumonia today. The total number of infected today is 1725 people. Nine patients were discharged from hospitals. This is stated in the press release of the Health Department of Health, who received here at ITAR-TASS.

The police are looking for two people who took place in one of the Al-Qaeda camps for the training of suicide bombers, today's The Sunday Times reports. The newspaper notes that these two are citizens of Britain, one is an Asian, and the second is an African who accepted the Muslim faith. The latter used to visit the same London mosque as Richard Reed, a “terrorist-fagot”, convicted in the United States in January 2003 for an attempt to blow up a passenger aircraft over the Atlantic.

The Moscow Dynamo has a chance on Sunday game day of the tenth round of the Russian Football Championship to reduce the lag from CSKA to five points. However, for this, the blue and white should win with Spartak. The match in Luzhniki promises to become the central event of the tour. Recall that after nine rounds, the teams are at different poles of the standings: Spartak is on the 13th with 10 points, and the team of Viktor Prokopenko occupies a second line of 17 points.

In the center of Moscow, near the venue of the concert of Sir Paul McCartney , on Saturday evening there was a shootout between the traffic police patrol service and unknown criminals. According to Interfax, sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, law enforcement officers tried at 21:10 Moscow time on Bolshaya Yakimanka Street, near the Kremlin, to stop the BMW car in black. The people sitting in the car did not react to the order to stop, their persecution began.

The winner of the regular championship in the Eastern Conference was for New Jersey Nets no more than another opponent on the way to the main goal - championship in the NBA. "New Jersey" -"Detroit" -102: 82 (account in the series -4-0) The main character of NTS again was Jason Kidd, who scored 26 points in the last match of the Detroit series and made 12 rebounds. Thus, for the second time in a row, the New Jersey reached the final of the NBA, where their rival will become Dallas or San Antonio.

A few hours before the announcement of the winners of the current 56th Cannes festival, the audience confidently gave its preference to the picture of the Canadian director Denis Arkan "The invasion of the barbarians." In an unofficial survey, 22.6 percent of the audience voted for it. 13.8 percent of the respondents consider the best Dogville Festival Danish director Lars von Trier at the Festival.

A large fire is raging in the Tigilsky district of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug / KAO / in Kamchatka. In the area of ​​the village of Verkhnyaya Khairyuzovo, from 2.5 to 3 thousand hectares of deer pastures and cedar stlanika, which will take more than 30 years, are burning. This was announced today by ITAR-TASS, the head of the fire department of the district Vasily Abaev. According to him, due to the lack of funds, the fight against natural fire is not conducted.

Syrian President Bashar Assad said on May 25 that Israel was to blame for a tense relationship between Syria and the USA, MIGNEWS.com reports. “The only problem between us and the United States is the problem of Israel. We have no bilateral problem,” Assad said in an interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper Al -Anbaa, “America is pleased with Syria and other Arab countries only when Israel is pleased with us. What is this logic?

On Sunday, the Israeli government adopted a plan for a peaceful settlement of the conflict with Palestine called "Roadmap", reports AFP. The country's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon managed to overcome the opposition of the right ministers and achieve the approval of the plan by the Cabinet. “For” 12 people voted, seven “against”, four abstained. The Palestinian side approved the plan a few weeks ago. Israel previously insisted on making 14 amendments to the document.

The mass manifestation, the participants of which went out to say no terrorism and violence, took place today in the economic capital of Morocco - Casablanca. According to the organizers, over a million people took part in the protest rally. This figure was confirmed by police representatives, ITAR-TASS reports. The manifestation took place without the participation of Islamist organizations.

Vladimir Klitschko will hold his next fight in August this year against Juan Carlos Gomez. Only after this fight, Klitschko Jr. will be able to try to take revenge from Corey Sanders in a dispute for the title according to WBO. Vladimir Klitschko said in an interview with his own official site that he was going to return to the ring in August.

The coalition forces ordered the population of Iraq to pass firearms, reports ITAR-TASS. As follows from the statements of the American military command common in Baghdad, such a campaign is part of the campaign carried out to instill public order in the country after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime.