The Americans in Iraq are defeated - both in terms of security and in solving other problems. The official representative of the Foreign Ministry of Iran Hamid Reza Asfi spoke this opinion at the press today at the press. Touching on the "lightning -fast" visit to Baghdad the US President, he noted that only seven months ago Bush announced the end of the war in Iraq and pointed out the need to ensure security.

Russia will cooperate with the leadership of Georgia, which will fit the people of this country. This was stated on Sunday on Sunday in St. Petersburg, the deputy head of the presidential administration Sergey Prikhodko, Interfax reports. “The President of Georgia is not chosen in Moscow, but in Georgia. This is definitely not in Moscow,” Prikhodko emphasized.

The megazvezes of the World Opera Opera Soprano scene Jesse Norman from the USA will perform today in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory at the opening of the festival "Vladimir Spivakov invites." Norman was awarded the highest US award in the field of performing art - the Prize of the Kennedy Center. American singer is an honorary doctor of universities and conservatories of different countries.

The former "bad guy" of the Australian tennis Mark Filippussis brought his national team the victory in the Davis Cup. It was Filippussis that won the first match of the Sunday session, ensuring the victory of his team over the Spaniards with a score of 3: 1. Filippussis played on a herbal court in his native Melbourne, winning on the "Arena of the Laved clan" at Juan -Carlos Ferrero - 7: 5, 6: 3, 1: 6, 2: 6, 6: 0.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Yakovenko, said that there were no Russian citizens on board the An-26 aircraft who had broken down in the Congo.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday returned to Moscow from St. Petersburg, said spokesman for the head of the Russian state Alexei Gromov. In the northern capital, Vladimir Putin held negotiations with the Prime Minister of Hungary Peter Meddeshi and President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan. Russia is ready to participate in the Karabakh settlement if its help is required.

The Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Kureya held negotiations with the deputy Secretary of State Willyam Burns, who arrived at the Middle East with an intermediary peacekeeping mission, tonight in Amman.

The Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov flew to Maastricht today, where on December 1-2 the annual ministerial meeting of the OSCE will be held, ITAR-TASS reports. At the meeting, the situation in Georgia will be discussed, said the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Chizhov.

Not wanting to give way to winter, autumn finally put a lot of efforts to maintain power in the metropolitan region. According to ITAR-TASS in Roshydromet, today the air temperature in Moscow and the region will still exceed the climatic norm by almost 5 degrees. In the morning in the capital from 0 to minus 2 degrees, in the suburbs - from minus 4 to plus 1. In the daytime in Moscow, it will warm to plus 2-4 degrees, and in the region it is expected from 0 to plus 5.

The Russian coach Georgy Yartsev and his Greek colleague Otto Rehagel ignored most journalists at a press conference. However, the coaches of the favorites of group A - Spain and Portugal are afraid of Russian rivals. Note that the questions to Yartsev and Rehagel are practically not former.

The Japanese government is inclined to regard the attack on its diplomats in Iraq as a terrorist attack. “Based on the circumstances of the incident, there is a high probability that this is a terrorist attack,” said Yasuo Fuda, general secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers, General Secretary, in particular, ITAR -TASS The car with the Japanese was attacked the day before 150 km north of Baghdad.

In Vilnius on Sunday, a protest “for honest Lithuania” was held near the parliament building, whose participants demanded the resignation of Lithuania President Rolandas Paxas, Interfax reports. The former head of the Sayudis public movement, who organized the protest, executed at the rally, the ex-speaker, now a member of the Sejm Vitautas Landsbergis said that the President of Lithuania is influenced by dubious persons and structures.

In the Congo last night, the An-26 aircraft crashed. The Minister of Press and Information of the Democratic Republic of Congo Vital Kamer does not exclude that Russian pilots could be piloted by a disaster, ITAR-TASS reports. It is worth noting that often in Africa, all immigrants from the CIS are called Russians. The plane crashed in the area of ​​the city of Bende, 600 km northeast of the capital of the Congo -Kinshasa.

The UK special services warn of the possibility of terrorist attacks in the country during Christmas holidays. "Scotland Yard and Mi5 are concerned that Islamic fanatics can prepare for simultaneous terrorist attacks against available goals, in particular shopping centers," the British newspaper The Sunday Times writes on Sunday.

Two American soldiers were killed and one was wounded as a result of an attack on a military column in Iraq near the border with Syria, Al-Jazeera reports on Sunday. The fact of the death of military personnel was confirmed by representatives of the command of the American troops. According to updated data, the column was ambushed, arranged by the forces of the Iraqi resistance. According to military sources, in November 79 US troops were killed in Iraq.