800,000 Americans were counted in the largest network of Wal-Mart department stores. Due to problems in the software serving electronic calculations using credit cards, customers of this network of department stores had to pay 2-3 times more for the purchased goods on Thursday and last week. The FIRST DATA company, which developed the program, reports that by Monday the problems was prevented, but no details about how many Americans and how much their system had expected, it was not reported.

The United Kingdom intends to announce its serious fears for the first time in connection with the authoritarian direction, in which Russia has been moving since the coming to power of President Vladimir Putin. This was written on Monday by The Guardian (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Hiroshima’s Prefecture Police Department reduced the salary of four to his employees for sexual harassment to the female colleagues, and their direct chiefs were a strict reprimand. Some cases of sexual harassment, for which the police were now punished, took place a few years ago. However, all these years, the police management preferred to turn a blind eye to such incidents and not give them a move, writes Daily News on Monday (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The star of ethnic music, the famous singer from the islands of the Green Cape (Cabo-Verde) Caria Evra will again perform in Moscow. The concert of Evra will be held on April 20 on the stage of the Great Hall of the Moscow International House of Music, Interfax reports. “This time, Cesaria Evra will perform on the stage of the most modern of the concert halls of the capital.

On Monday, in the Moscow City Court, the collegium of the jury found the Ingush Zarem Zaremhoeva guilty of all the accusations, her lawyer Natalya Evlapova told Interfax. Zarema Myakhoeva was accused of trying to commit a terrorist attack in the summer of 2003 in the center of Moscow. “After three hours of discussion, the jury issued the indictment, voting unanimously on all respects of the charges,” Yevlapova told reporters.

The Israeli police recommended Israeli citizens who have weapons permission, carry it with them during the festival of Passah to repel possible attacks by Palestinian extremists. This statement was made on Monday by the police chief of Israeli Shlomo Aaronishki, ITAR-TASS reports. He also said that thousands of policemen would patrol the streets of cities during Monday night of the week of Passover. At the same time, more than 1 thousand police officers will be deployed in Tel Aviv.

The only journalists who were in the corridor of the Moscow City Court - Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan from the Version newspaper, who most actively illuminated the process in the case of the scientist Igor Sutyagin , were detained on Monday in the court building. The process in the case of Sutyagin as usual is closed. Journalists were waiting for lawyers in the corridor a few meters from the door of the meeting room.

Two criminals were arrested on Sunday by the Japanese police for the murder of the leader of the Yakuza gang, which occurred during the largest clashes of gangster groups in recent years. The war broke out between Jijima-Kay and Yamagati-Gumi-the two largest organized criminal groups in Japan. According to the police, Iidzima-Kai has already suffered significant losses in Tokyo, as well as in the prefectures of Tiba, Saitama and Totiga.

A group of football fans of the Moscow Spartak, who was following to Volgograd to support their team in a guest match against the local Rotor , literally defeated the Cafe Cafe "Complex" in the Tambov region. This was reported on Monday "Interfax" in the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs of the region.

In Australia, a trial of a student from Sydney, who dealt with his whole family, is taking place in order to avoid dangerous revelations. Despite the data of the investigation, the SEF Gonzales, who is now 23 years old, did not plead guilty to the process in the court of the new South Wales. The young man is accused of killing his parents, Teddy and Mary Liva, and the 18-year-old sister Clodin. This happened in the family of the family on July 10, 2001.

The first package of bills on tax reform, including a decrease in a single social tax, will be developed and will be submitted to the Duma until the end of the week, the deputy chairman of the government Alexander Zhukov said at a meeting with Vladimir Putin. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated with satisfaction at a meeting in the Kremlin that after discussing the medium -term plans at a joint meeting of colleges of the Ministry of Finance and Economics, there is a certain forward movement.

The volume of world trade will increase in 2004 by 7.5% after an increase of 4.5% in 2003, the report of the World Trade Organization, published on Monday, said. According to the head of the WTO, the Panitchpakdi Soup, "improving the economic situation in Asia and the United States gave a significant impetus to world trade." This year, the growth of world GDP can be 3.7%, and the volume of world trade - 7.5%.

American troops are holding a retaliation in the Iraqi city of El Falluj, where four Americans were killed and torn to pieces last week. According to sources of CNN television company, the city was fighting between partisans and the American Marines. At the moment, as a result of several incidents, one American Marine and 7 Iraqis died. According to eyewitnesses, the battle began at the moment when the soldiers searched one of the houses.

In the new academic year, in secondary schools, Chechnya plan to start teaching an additional subject - "Fundamentals of Islam". Spiritual training of schoolchildren will be conducted by graduates of the local Islamic Institute. According to ITAR-TASS correspondent today, Deputy Mufti of Chechnya Khamzat Odaev, the decision to introduce a new subject in the school curriculum agreed with the Ministry of Education of the Republic.

A group of extortionists was detained in Moscow as a result of a special operation. According to law enforcement agencies of the capital, on April 2 in the evening, the police manager of Passage-Kuznetsk bridge CJSC, who stated that on this day in the premises of the Technosil store on Rozhdestvenka Street, house 6/9, unknown, introduced by law enforcement officials, were handcuffed to his acquaintance, deputy general director of LLC, Cossible Trans-1 LLC.