Israeli soldiers eliminated the militant of the Hamas terrorist movement in the city of Tulkarm on the western bank of the Jordan River. According to Palestinian sources, about ten tanks and armored personnel carriers, with the support of infantry, were repeatedly entered early in the morning on Wednesday in the city of Tulkarm and blocked all the roads in it. Infantry units surrounded several houses in which, according to the military, terrorists were hidden, RIA Novosti reports.

The Russian military pensioner Evald Pern, who was living in Estonia, through the court, received from the state the payment of the treatment he conducted in local hospitals. The Eesti Paevaleht newspaper writes that in 2001 the local hospital refused to explore and treat Pern Cyrrhosis of the liver, explaining the reluctance to pay the planned treatment of Russian military pensioners.

In the south of the Volgograd region, the 51st settlement is disconnected from the power supply due to the massive break of the wires on the power lines, the Novo-Goregogradenergo press service told RIA Novosti. Despite the difficult weather conditions, emergency recovery work is in full swing in the region, power engineers work around the clock. In the elimination of the accident, 79 emergency brigades and over 160 units of special equipment are involved.

Nova Kaledonia, which was going under the flag of Malta, with the Russian crew on the radio transferred to the Japanese coastal service about the disappearance of the boatswain Sergey Kustov, who fell into the sea under unclear circumstances. As ITAR-TASS reported in the security department at sea (UBM) of the city of Nagoy, the signal arrived at 9 a.m. in the morning (3:00 Moscow time). At this moment, the ship was 490 km from the shores of Japan.

Law enforcement agencies of France and other European countries are looking for a person who, as expected, should have flown out of Paris to Los Angeles on the eve of Catholic Christmas.

Now in Germany and Azerbaijan there are qualifying Olympic competitions to participate in the Athenian tournament. While both tournaments are held their first - group - stage. However, in Leipzig and Baku, both Russian teams retain the chances of getting into Athens. This is more related to the male team. So, Russian volleyball players won the second consecutive victory at the Olympic qualifying tournament held in Leipzig.

In Moscow on Wednesday, a 40-year-old locksmith died in a snow melting chamber, Interfax reports. According to law enforcement sources, at about 6:00, the worker performed a morning inspection of equipment at the snow reception point in the Cherkizovo area. Passing between two snow melting cameras along a slippery path, the locksmith fell, he dragged him into the unit, and he died. The Moscow City Hall intends to conduct a thorough verification of the circumstances of the incident.

Pittsburgh Penguin Center Form Form Form Mario Lemier, perhaps played the last match in the NHL championship. In the match with Boston, which took place on November 1, he was injured, after which he did not go out onto the ice. On Wednesday, doctors made a diagnosis according to which Lemier will miss the rest of the season. However, while Supermario hopes that he will return to the games next year.

The main foreign policy priority of Georgia is integration into Europe. This was stated on Wednesday on the air on the air of Radio France International (RFI) Mikhail Saakashvili, who leads the votes in the Sunday of the President of Georgia, RIA Novosti reports. According to Saakashvili, "all Georgians consider themselves Europeans" and it is with Europe that they connect their further future.

In early February, another unit of Georgian peacekeepers as part of an expanded company of 207 military personnel will be sent to Iraq. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of Georgia David Tevzadze on Wednesday to reporters. "The format of the participation of Georgian peacekeepers will be changed this time and there will be no military doctors in Iraq to Iraq," he said.

Marian Hossa abandoned two goals and made a program, in the match, where his Ottawa won with a score - 5: 2 at Tampa Bay. Thus, the win -win series of "Senators" reached ten matches. Moreover, Ottawa won five matches in a row, and in ten meetings she only tied twice. Meanwhile, Ottawa was quite difficult to win in this match, since literally before the start of the game it turned out that the rest of this season would miss Vaclav Varada due to the injury of the knee.

In Kosovo, local residents threw stones a bus from the delegation of the Russian Foundation Andrei Pardennoy, which has been in the region since January 4 with a humanitarian mission. As RIA Novosti reports from the scene, the bus, in which representatives of the Russian media were mainly located, were thrown by local residents gathered on the streets of the Albanian village of Deschana. The incident occurred after the Christmas service. None of the Russians were injured.

The European Space Agency (ECA) began to search for the Beagle-2 scientific module, which landed on the surface of Mars on December 25, 2003 and did not get in touch , ITAR-TASS reports. According to Friday, a representative of the Cosmic flights of ECA, this task is assigned to the Mars-Express automatic station, which delivered Beagle-2 to Mars and has been in the near-Marcian orbit from December 25, 2003.

Christmas came to Russia. Today, on the first day of the Great Holiday, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II will make the Great Christmas Vespers in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, ITAR-TASS reports. From this time, for everyone who follows the centuries -old traditions of the celebration of Christmas, a special period begins - Christmas time - twelve holy days before the festival of the baptism of the Lord, during which the birth of the Savior of the world is glorified.

The all -night vigil and the Christmas Liturgy, according to Orthodox custom, for the first time in the almost two hundredth history of the scientific development of the sixth continent, were committed the day before at the Bellingshausen Russian station. This was reported to the ITAR-TASS correspondent in the headquarters of polar science-the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg.