When towing, the Balkhash ship sank into the Kaliningrad port. This was reported on Thursday in the regional emergency department. The vessel, in the tanks of which there were 10 tons of diesel fuel and 440 kilograms of motor oil, was towed from the Leningrad Region, RIA Novosti reports. The accident, the message of which the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Kaliningrad Region distributed today, occurred on January 5.

Experts of the International Monetary Fund, finally, drew attention to the difficult situation in the American economy and made an appropriate warning. In the last report on the state of the US economy, prepared by the results of traditional annual consultations with the American authorities, financiers indicate the danger of a “disordered” reduction in the exchange rate of the dollar regarding other world currencies.

The Libyan Jews of Israel (from 1948 to 1967, almost all members of the Jewish community, whose number of 37 thousand people), were closely monitored by reports of meetings of Israeli emissaries and people of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. They hope that the refutation received on Wednesday from Tripoli was made only in order to continue secret negotiations, writes Corriere Dela Sera (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Madonna urged Americans to support Wesley Clark in the upcoming US presidential election Pop diva condemned the policy of the administration of George Bush.

The Stockholm District Court appointed the first meeting in the case of the murder of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Anna Lind on January 14. The process should end on January 19, RIA Novosti reports. The defendant in this case is 25-year-old Mikhailo Mikhailovich on Tuesday admitted to the murder of Lind . Now he faces a punishment from 10 years in prison to life imprisonment.

In the Pakistani Autonomous Pushtun district, Yuzhny Vaziristan on the border with Afghanistan, in the area of ​​the alleged municipality of Osama Ben Laden, on Thursday a large -scale operation began jointly conducted by special services and military against the foreign terrorists hidden here. This was announced by the chief of the United Military Information Service Shaukata Sultan. According to the Sultan, the authorities invited the militants to lay down their weapons and surrender.

The British authorities forbade aviation companies in a number of countries to fly to the UK. According to the representative of the British aviation department of Tony Macnalti, such measures are caused by the fact that the above states do not comply with the necessary security measures. The published "black list" includes all airlines of equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia and Tajikistan, two airlines from Sierra Leone and one of the Cameroon, Albania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with the famous French fashion designer Pierre Carden. Lukashenko and Carden discussed the issues of further cooperation in the development of Belarusian-French cultural ties. The theme of a possible show in Minsk was also affected by the musical performance of Carden "Tristan and Isolda".

The reason for the failure of the operation to eliminate chemical Ali, a high -ranking ally of Saddam, was a malfunction with a military satellite connection, writes The Daily Telegraph newspaper (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). Government satellite communications with London was interrupted on the first day of the war in Iraq. The British commander, Marshal of Aviation Brine Barridge at first even thought that the Iraqis had a successful cyberataka.

Climate changes can lead to the disappearance of a million biological species around the world by 2050, the results of the recently published scientific research of the organization of Conservation International . In an article published in the authoritative journal Nature, scientists who studied the habitat in six regions of the world said that up to a quarter of animals and plants in the world can soon disappear forever.

The corpses of two killed homeless people were discovered on Thursday morning on Krasnoprudnaya Street. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, the bodies of men, presumably, without a specific place of residence, were found at about 8:00 in the immediate vicinity of the Yaroslavl station. According to preliminary information, both died of beatings. An investigation has begun.

The widow of the ex-president Zviad Gamsakhurdia Manana Achvadze-Gamsakhurdia and about 200 of her supporters on Thursday in the evening of the Russian Prosecutor General of Georgia in Tbilisi were blocked on Thursday. Participants in the action require an agreement with the Prosecutor General Nugzar Gabrichidze on the creation of a special group to investigate the circumstances of violent overthrow in 1992 of the first President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia.

The famous Spanish tenor Placido Domingo will again perform in Russia. His only concert will be held on March 10 at the Moscow International House of Music. This was announced by ITAR-TASS by the Deputy General Director of MMDM Ivan Popov. The 62-year-old Domingo was born in Madrid, he moved to Mexico with his parents with his parents. He performs from the age of seven. Its professional debut took place in the National Opera Mexico Code, in the production of Rigoletto.

Maybe all over the world, George Bush has an image of a hard person, but it seems that in the war with small terrorists at home he was defeated, the British The Times writes today, the article published by Inopressa .

The official representative of the UN Mission in Kosovo said that in Kosovo Suchan’s village on Wednesday during the travel of the bus, in which the delegation of the Russian Foundation Andrei the First-Called and Society of Russian-Serbic Friendship was located, three people threw snowballs into it, as a result of which one window was broken. The representative emphasized that as a result of this incident no one was injured.