As a result of the attack of unknown people committed in the area of ​​the village of Falluja, 50 km east of Baghdad 1, the American soldier died, 5 more were injured, AFP reports with reference to the official representative of the American Central Command (Sentkom). According to Reuters, the soldier fired at the unknown from Bazuku. The soldier does not call the sentom of the names of the victims, reporting only that they were part of the 4 motorized regiment of the 101 airborne division.

The Council of Muftis of Russia and the command of the ground forces signed a protocol on cooperation. According to RIA Novosti in the Council, the document was signed according to the results of the next day of the meeting of Mufti Ravil Gainutdin with the deputy commander in chief for educational work, Major General Alexander Chechetenko.

The militants of the Taliban anti-government movement burned a women's school in the County of the Maidan, located southwest of the Afghan capital. This was announced on Thursday by the local newspaper Arman Milli. This school was restored from ruins a few months ago with financial assistance to the United Nations, ITAR-TASS reports. The Taliban, after coming to power in Afghanistan, was forbidden for women to study.

This was reported to the ITAR-TASS correspondent by the Russian investor of the project by the General Director of the Far Eastern Scientific and Production Association "DV Arsenal" Igor Svetlov, who is completing a work trip to the DPRK today. He noted that the construction of a multicopular temple according to plan would take about 9 months.

The first echelon with Russian peacekeepers who were in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the international stabilization forces (SFOR) left the Belin railway station in the east of the republic on Thursday. SFOR commander American General William Ward, escorting Russian soldiers, noted their contribution to maintaining peace and progress in Bosnia over the past eight years, reports.

NG religions publish on its pages an article by the deputy head of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP) Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, who is simultaneously the somoderator of the Commission "Church and Society" of the Conference of European Churches. In this material, a prominent representative of the Russian Orthodox Church talks about the work on the draft agreement that has entered into the final phase establishing the Constitution of the European Union.

A tourist from Germany became a random victim of hostilities in the Indonesian province of Achech, where government troops continue the operation against the formations of separatists. During the night shootout, 54-year-old German citizen Luther Hendrick was killed, and his 49-year-old wife was injured. Representatives of the Indonesian troops, confirming the fact of the death of a tourist, do not give other details of this incident.

At an extraordinary meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Region on Thursday, deputies unanimously supported the association of the Perm region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. According to the adopted documents, as a result of the unification of the region and the district, a new constituent entity of the Russian Federation - Perm Territory will be obtained.

In Moscow, unknown attackers stole the personal car of the People's Artist of the USSR, the famous singer Valentina Tolkunova. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, this happened in the center of Moscow the day before. According to the owner of the car, the 2002 Volkswagen-Passat was stolen on the night of June 4 from the house on Malaya Bronnaya Street, where the singer lives. A criminal case has been instituted on this fact, Interfax reports.

The famous American financier and exchange speculator George Soros does not exclude that by the end of 2003 the euro will be $ 1.2-1.25.

Oil was the main reason for military aggression against the regime of Saddam Hussein, recognized in the Pentagon. Paul Wolfovitz, one of the main American Hawks, made a sensational statement with a sensational statement. His statements, made before the delegates of the Asian Security summit, held in Singapore at the end of last week, confirmed the worst fears of all those who opposed military aggression, writes The Guardian .

Two leaders of one of the largest and most influential newspapers of the United States - New York Times went on Thursday resigned. This decision was made by the executive editor Hawwell Raines and manager Gerald Boyd in the wake of the scandal connected by plagiarism and other violations committed by the journalist of the newspaper Jason Blair, ITAR-TASS reports.

On Sakhalin with suspected atypical pneumonia (SARS) on Thursday, a 21-year-old resident of the city of Vakhrushev on the east coast of the island was hospitalized on Thursday. This was reported in the regional center for disaster medicine. The sick recently arrived at Sakhalin from the military unit in Ussuriysk of the Primorsky Territory. In the afternoon on Thursday, he turned to the clinic with complaints of malaise, which he felt on May 17.

In the city of El-Kut in Eastern Iraq, rumors quickly spread that the American marine infantrymen intend to execute 40 looters who were operating in a local textile factory, put their heads on the poles and put up at the city gate. “Do not tell them that this is not true,” said Lieutenant Colonel Eric Gorovski employees of the newly created television company TV KUT, who asked the new “owners” how to report these rumors in the evening issue of news.

The US dollar at a single session and daytime tenders of the MICEX on Thursday resumed a landslide fall, decreasing by more than 10 kopecks against the backdrop of the flow of currency on the market from exporters. In addition, dealers, the Bank of Russia, who sold the currency at the rate of 30.76 rubles per dollar, was noted the day before, somewhat weakened the deficit of the American currency in the market and the exchange rate without the support of customers began to decline again.