King of Jordan postponed his visit to President George Bush. The visit of the Jordanian monarch to the White House was scheduled for Wednesday, but Abdalla II postponed it for the first week of May. He considered that first it was necessary to clarify the US position on the issue of Israeli settlements on the western bank of the Jordan River , CNN reports.

Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, shifted from his post as a result of a “velvet revolution”, plans a kind of return to politics. According to the Independent newspaper, Shevardnadze became an adviser to the UN Secretary General Cofi Annan. The translation of the article is published on the website inopressa.ru .

The court satisfied the performance of the Moscow prosecutor Anatoly Zuev on recognition as extremist literature of the treatise of Muhammad ibn Suleiman at-tamimies (Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahhab) "The Book of Monotheism". As the Interfax agency was informed today in the press service of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, the prosecutor’s office was previously opened and investigated a criminal case under Art.

Russia will complete the implementation of the contract for China S-300 PMU-3 anti-aircraft systems in June this year, the director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Mikhail Dmitriev, who, as part of the delegation of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation on Tuesday, arrived in Beijing. "The contract for the supply of China S-300 PMU-1 will be completed in June. The contract is carried out strictly according to the schedule," Dmitriev "Interfax" said.

Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrived on a working visit to Moscow. According to RIA Novosti at the Italian Embassy in Moscow, upon arrival of Silvio Berlusconi will take part in the opening ceremony of the first Italian bank in Russia - CJSC Bank Inteza Bank. After that, the Italian prime minister will go to the Kremlin for negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A fire in a metal hangar in the south of Moscow was liquidated, an employee of the Center for Public Relations of the State Fire Service of Moscow Alexei Pavlenko said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. A message about a fire in a metal hangar and a nearby one -story brick building on an industrial street, house 11 arrived at 12 hours 19 minutes. At 12:30 a third degree was awarded to the fire. The ignition area was 1 thousand square meters.

The engineer Mordechai Vanun, who told the world about Israeli nuclear weapons, and stolen by Mossad’s employees in the UK , should leave Shikma in the city of Ashkelon on Wednesday after 18 years of imprisonment. In 1986, Vanuna was sentenced to a long time for the transfer of secret information about the studies in the field of Dimon in the field of nuclear weapons in the Israeli atomic center.

The Arab terrorist al-Valid was killed in Chechnya five months ago, but the militants deliberately hid the fact of his death "so as not to give Moscow the opportunity to use its elimination for election purposes." This was stated in an interview with the Mezharab newspaper Al-Hayat, published on Tuesday, the brother of the terrorist -Bandar al-Gamidi.

Italy is almost ready to simplify the system for issuing visas with Russia, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday in Moscow in negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Interfax reports. “We are already ready to simplify the visa system, and is sure that this will facilitate and improve our relationship even more,” said Silvio Berlusconi.

In the United States, a new book of one of the most famous American journalists Bob Woodworda is published, in which he will first open the veil of secrets over the decision of George Bush and his inner circle to start a war against Iraq. In today's issue of Liberation, a scene from Bob Woodworda was published.

In the zone of the strongest flood in the south of the Kemerovo region, nine people died. This was stated on Tuesday at a press conference at Kemerovo, the head of the Main Operational Administration for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations, Alexander Martynov. In particular, eight people died in the village of Malyshev Log in the city of Kaltan and another in Tashtagol. The death of four residents of Malyshev Log is directly related to the flood.

In Perm, as a result of an attack on gas stations, the station operator of the station and police sergeant were killed. According to the press service of Lukoil-Permnefteprodukt, a robbery of gas stations in the Kirovsky district of Perm was committed on Tuesday at 4:30 local time. As a result of the attack, police sergeant Dmitry Tikhonin and 22-year-old gas station operator Natalya Fedotova died. The attackers disappeared from the scene of the crime. One of the criminals may be wounded.

The other day, all customs posts at which Chinese imported goods are issued, received an indication of increasing the minimum customs value of the imported goods from $ 0.2-1.4 to $ 3.5 per kilogram. According to Kommersant , the initiative of the GTK can lead to an increase in retail prices of Chinese goods more than half. Customs officers hope, due to such taxation, increase the budget fees by more than $ 500 million per year and protect Russian manufacturers of consumer goods.

The overthrown President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was taken for 48 hours to Qatar, where he was interrogated by the director of the CIA George tenet, according to Gazeta.ru on Tuesday with reference to the AL-QABAS Kuwaiti newspaper. The article does not specify when this happened. According to her, Saddam Hussein, after interrogation, was again returned to Iraq.

Having visited the former concentration camp in Poland, the Federal Republic of Germany experienced such a strong shock that now he did not want to have anything to do with Germany. Details of this story are given by the Der Tagesspiegel newspaper (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). The 24-year-old Berlinets arrived at the former concentration camp Stutthof near Gdansk as part of a tourist group. The one saw was a shock for him.