In the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Saturday afternoon, unknown people shot a German citizen. According to the local SPA news agency, the director of the city, Lieutenant General Abdalla Ash-Shakhney, was killed by the German Denken Herman, an employee of the Saudi airline. The unknown person released five bullets into it from a pistol and disappeared with two accomplices.

The humanitarian drama in Sudan is currently the largest in the world, in an interview with journalists in Vienna, Deputy Secretary General of the UN Yang Egeland.

The DPRK provided Libya with two tons of uranium - the element necessary for the production of atomic weapons. This statement was made by the New York Times . The publication refers to official representatives of the American administration and IAEA employees.

On Sunday, a man fell on the path of the Tver metro station of the metro station, a Newsru.com correspondent reports. The incident occurred at about 8:30 in the morning. Traffic on Zamoskvoretskaya line from the "River Station" to the center was blocked. The train that the man fell under, did not reach the end of the platform, and the driver had to manually open the doors to release passengers. It is still unknown whether it was suicide or an accident.

Between Washington and London there really are serious disagreements of relatively too hard tactics of American troops in Iraq. This was announced today by the British newspaper Sunday Times with reference to its disposal the secret memorandum of the United Kingdom, intended strictly for internal use. The British Foreign Ministry is in support of the position of Russia, France and Germany about the speedy convocation of the international conference on Iraq, the report said.

A cargo vessel transporting four thousand cars was sank off the coast of Singapore last night. According to ITAR-TASS, it collided with an oil tanker and received a large hole. The crew of the vessel, consisting of four Koreans and 16 Filipinos, was saved. There were about 260 thousand tons of raw oil in the tanker's holds, but the leaks in the sea were not recorded. An investigation of the causes and circumstances of the disaster is being conducted.

In the east, Bangladesh today sank a double -decay ferry, on board of which there were about 300 passengers. Rescuers have already discovered the bodies of eight dead, including women and children. According to reports received from Dakka, the disaster occurred on the Meghna River in the City of Chandpur. The reason for the crash of the ship was a tropical storm. According to the police, at least 50 people managed to get to the shore on their own.

Over the past day, 84 infants with food poisoning were delivered to Kyiv hospitals. As ITAR-TASS reported today in the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies, from May 20, 240 children aged 6 months to 2 years, who were poisoned by the products of the dairy factory, children's food number 1, from May 20 entered the hospitals of Kiev and the region. Severe cases are not recorded.

Family couples, who got married in 1954 and still live together, noted their "golden weddings" at the Olympic Sports Palace of Badalona near Barcelona, ​​RIA Novosti reports. They were expected by a specially baked cake weighing 15 kilograms, as well as Gala Bal, on which the dance music of the times of their youth sounded. In total, the Golden Wedding this time was noted by 144 pairs living in the city and its environs.

On Sunday, the election of the head of state - the President of Germany will take place in Germany. It is elected by the Federal Assembly - the constitutional body convened only for this purpose. The Federal Assembly includes deputies of the Bundestag of Germany and the same number of delegates elected by the country's land parliaments. Among the delegates there are cultural figures, famous athletes, entrepreneurs.

The number of victims of the explosion in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir reached 28 people, 15 were injured. This was reported by the national television of Pakistan. On Sunday morning, in the city of Srinar there was a blow of a bus, which transported Indian border guards. The Muslim extremist group "Hizb-ul-Mujahiddin" took responsibility for the attack by the terrorist attack, RIA Novosti reports.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will begin to discuss with the ministers of the Likud party and representatives of the Ministry of Defense his modified phased program of a unilateral department from the Palestinian autonomy. The modified Sharon program will be submitted to the government on the next Sunday of May 30. The Israeli prime minister promised that by that time he would provide detailed documentation of the stages of the department from the Palestinians proposed by him.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Manmokhan Singha in connection with his took office as Prime Minister of the Republic of India, Interfax reports with reference to the presidential press service. “In Russia, you are known as the initiator of important economic transformations that contributed to the transformation of India into one of the leading world powers.

One person died and 16 were injured as a result of a car accident in the Altai Territory, RIA Novosti was told by phone in the regional Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergencies. According to the source, a large traffic accident occurred on Saturday in Novoaltaysk, in which five cars participated. “According to preliminary data, first Toyota’s car collided with the Gazelle minibus, and then three more cars crashed into them,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The new president of Germany was Horst Keler, the former director of the International Monetary Fund. He won the presidential election in the Federal Republic of Germany and will begin to act as the head of state from July 1, ITAR-TASS reports. Keler gained the necessary most votes in the first round of voting members of the Federal Assembly. Keler, who was 61 years old, replaced the President of Johannes Rau, who did not nominate his candidacy for a second term.