The United States discovered in Iraq the archives of Iraqi special services, which include searches and detailed information about foreign agents. This was reported with reference to sources in the US administration on Monday, the newspaper Washington Post. Archives contain documentary confirmations of remuneration that were paid to Iraq to agents in the Arab world and other countries.

Employees of Domodedovo Customs stopped smuggling a large batch of diamonds. This is stated in the press service of the State Customs Committee widespread on Monday. According to the GTK, on ​​the eve of the control of passengers of flight number 0524 "Moscow-Khoshin", the attention of customs officers was attracted by the 28-year-old native of Armenia. The woman was clearly nervous and in response to the request to fill out the customs declaration refused to do this.

The owner of the Jordan team Eddie Jordan seriously considers the possibility of invitation in 2004 to Formula 1, 19-year-old Russian Vitaly Petrov. According to the Air Force , the Irish team is counting on financial feeding from Russia and considers a talented guy from Vyborg as a guide to a very attractive market. At the moment when this message appeared, Vitaly spent his first race in Formula 3000, reports F1news . He started from his 12th position and immediately won two places.

In Kaliningrad, on Monday, due to an accident without heating and hot water, approximately 500 residential buildings and about 200 other buildings remained. "The accident occurred this afternoon on the main highway of the heating networks belonging to the Kaliningradteploset Municipal Unitary Enterprise.

In November, earthlings are waiting for a complete lunar eclipse, "star rain" and the approach of a comet, one of the fragments of which, according to scientists, was a Tungusky meteorite. This was told by ITAR-TASS by the leading researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Bagrov. According to him, at the beginning of the month of the peak of activity, a meteor stream Tauride from the constellation Taurus will reach the peak stream.

Magnetic storms caused by flashes in the sun are expected on the ground. This was announced today by the head of the department of the Institute of Applied Geophysics of Roshydromet Pavel Svidsky. According to him, the outbreaks recorded in the last day may still be repeated. The residents of Russia will feel their consequences in the form of new magnetic storms already tonight or night in Moscow time, he noted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon the Middle East "road map". According to a high -ranking source in the Kremlin administration, a visit to the Israeli guest is a “at a difficult moment” planned a month and a half ago. The Kremlin considers the meeting as a “Russian contribution to the promotion of the“ road map.

United Russia decided not to participate in television election debates with other political parties. This was stated by the head of the Central Electoral Staff, Yuri Volkov. According to him, the party leadership considers "inappropriate and dangerous to spend time on advertising and populist performances on the body." “Our ideology and position on the most important issues are set out in the party’s program and have been voiced more than once,” said Yuri Volkov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented today in the Kremlin of the Order and medals to 16 miners and ministers who participated in the elimination of the consequences of the accident at the Western mine in the Rostov region. Ten miners were awarded the orders of courage, four - medals "For the salvation of the dying" and two - orders "For Merits to the Fatherland" II degree, Interfax reports.

The trading agreement on diamonds between the Russian AK ALROSA and the De Beers concern, which is now being examined at the Antimonopoly Commission of the European Commission, can be approved until the end of 2003. This was reported by Prime-Tass with reference to unnamed sources at the International Diamond Conference in Antwerp. The agreement determines the mechanisms and sizes of sales of Russian unprocessed diamonds of De Beers.

Mass shares on the occasion of the day of reconciliation and consent will be held in the center of Moscow on November 7.

A spy scandal erupted in Formula 1. The winner of the Cup of Designers - the Ferrari team - accuses the other team - Toyota - of industrial espionage, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Italian publication 'Gazzetta Dello Sport' . According to the newspaper, the German police searched the house of an Italian engineer who previously worked for Ferrari, and is now an employee of Toyota.

At the Preobrazhensky cemetery in Moscow, the vandals damaged 12 monuments. According to the information department and public relations of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the head of the cemetery turned to the police on the eve of the police and reported what happened. According to the applicant, the incident occurred on the night of Sunday.

At least three people were killed and two were injured as a result of the explosion, which occurred on Monday in the city of Karbela a hundred kilometers south of Baghdad, ITAR-TASS reports. EFE reported with reference to eyewitnesses that, obviously, a mined car, parked near the hotel from the most revered by Shiites of the mosque, where the ashes of Imam Hussein, was obviously flew into the air. The facade of the building is greatly destroyed.

Former Foreign Minister in the Taliban government, Mullah Vakil Ahmad Mutavakil, refused to propose the administration of the President of Afghanistan Hamida Karzai to occupy one of the ministerial posts in the country's government. As it became known on Monday from Afghan government sources, Mutavakil considers the issue of obtaining political asylum in one of the Arab countries, presumably in Qatar. This is also reported by the Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat .