In the South American Province of Limpopo, the court hearing was unexpectedly interrupted by one of the most bloody murders that shocked the country a few months ago. There are three killers in the dock - a white farmer and two blacks who dealt with a 38 -year -old worker in January, scraping his lions. During the meeting, the woman whose name is not called began to loudly shout accusations against the smiling killer who is suspected of involvement and other deaths.

The coalition authorities will transfer Saddam Hussein to Iraqi until June 30, 2004. This was announced on Tuesday during his stay in Kuwait by Salyam Chalabi, the administrative director of a special tribunal, created last month for the trial of the former Iraqi leader and his closest associates, RIA Novosti reports. According to Chalabi, the trial of Hussein will begin in Iraq at the beginning of next year.

Russian Forestry Corporation "Im PALP" , Moscow Narodny Bank Ltd and Commerzbank AktiengesellSchaft today signed an agreement on the organization of medium -term syndicated loan of the company. This is stated in a joint press release from the participants in the agreement. Moscow Narodny Bank (authorized organizer) and Commerzbank AG jointly performed a loan under the amount of $ 50 million for a period of 3 years on Libor + 4.25 percent underwear.

The first group of military personnel of the Honduras contingent was withdrawn from Iraq and is located in neighboring Kuwait, President Honduras Ricardo Maduro announced. Reporting this through the media of his country, the president, who is on a visit to Japan, expressed satisfaction with the beginning of the return of soldiers and officers of the contingent with 369 people, Interfax reports.

In Ukraine, two children were killed who climbed into the refrigerator and could not get out of there. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, the accident occurred in the urban -type village of Majibizh, the Khmelnitsky region. The children climbed into the old non -working refrigerator, which was in the courtyard of a private house, and suffocated. The bodies of the dead were found on Monday evening. Links on the topic

In the Murmansk region, more than 30 tons of titanium frames (transverse beams that serve to stability of the sides and bottoms) were stolen from the base of the reactor compartments and the houses of the written -off atomic submarines in the sida sid. During the check carried out at the end of 2003, 14.720 tons of external frames were established.

The cause of explosions and fire in military warehouses in the Zaporizhzhya region was a violation of the authorized fire safety requirements, in particular, smoking near the place of storage of ammunition. This was stated by the Minister of Emergencies of Ukraine Grigory Reva. "The fire and explosions occurred as a result of the lack of proper discipline," Reva said on Tuesday, speaking in the Parliament of Ukraine.

On May 10, in Iraq, an armed attack on three citizens of the Russian Federation, sent under the contract of Interenergoservis CJSC at the Yuzhny Baghdad TPP, took place in Iraq in the area of ​​the village of Latifia. As a result of the attack, one citizen of Russia died, two more were captured by attackers hostage, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry .

The Tver Court transferred the case of the Journalists of the Echo-TV television company, which is accused of violating public order on May 7 at the Bolshoi Theater, when the national-Bolsheviks took place . According to Andrei Norkin, the editor -in -chief of the television company, the meeting began at about 16:30 and ended at 16:55. The consideration was postponed due to the fact that witnesses did not appear at the court session.

In an interview with Time, the American military acted in defense of the use of sexual humiliation of prisoners. This is dirty work, but some methods are better than others. The main thing, he says, find the point of psychological vulnerability of the enemy. Ask experienced investigators about torture, and they will answer that real professionals do not use them. They receive the necessary information without resorting to extremes. This is the official point of view.

The results of May 5-9 in the northern capital of the XII Russian Film Festival "Vivat Cinema Russia!" Were summed up. The competition program of the festival was attended by 28 domestic films shot from April 2003 to February 2004. The winners were determined by the audience vote. According to the event, the Grand Prix, a prize of spectator sympathies among the films, received the painting "Huntsman" directed by Alexander Tsatsuev. The best series is called "Idiot" directed by Vladimir Bortko.

The terrorist attack, which led to the death of the pro -Russian President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov on Monday, has already caused numerous responses in the world press . On Tuesday, foreign publications continue to publish articles criticizing Russian politics in Chechnya, claiming that the Kremlin should reconsider their position in the Chechen issue.

On the day when the Russian people celebrated Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, in the framework of the 30th International Book Fair, Russia was held in Buenos Aires. “For the first time in many years, 10 Russian publishing houses took part in the largest book fair in South America,” said Valery Malykh, head of Roszarubezhenter in Argentina. "This is only the first step to return Russia to the book market of Latin America," said small ones.

The Cuban authorities announced the introduction of a number of extraordinary economic measures, which is caused, according to them, the need to withstand Washington’s “gross and cruel” initiatives, “aimed at strangling the development” of this country. Last week, the US administration announced a series of initiatives aimed at accelerating the change of political regime in Cuba.

On the territory of the Sakhalin region, the first forest fire occurred in this fire hazard season. The fire of the fire was discovered on May 10 in the Kholmsky district in the south-west of Sakhalin.