According to updated data, as a result of the explosion in the center of Baghdad, three people were killed on Sunday, seven were injured. This was transmitted by the Emirate satellite television channel Al-Arabia, referring to the information received from official Iraqi sources. Among the dead are two women. The incident occurred next to the Central Bank of Iraq in the area of ​​the Ash Shuhad bridge across the Tiger River.

The resolution on the detention of ex -head of the NK Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky is “justice turned upside down,” the lawyer of Khodorkovsky Karina Moskalenko said on the air of the Echo Moscow radio station. On June 21, the Moscow City Court will consider Moskalenko’s complaint about the illegal detention of its client.

In the Novgorod MST River, catfish weighing 78 kilograms was caught, RIA Novosti told the head of the Novgorod State Inspectorate for the Protection, Fish Reserves and Fishermen Alexander Komissarenko on Saturday. According to Komissarenko, a resident of the village of Bronnitsa, a hereditary fisherman Vasily Vikhrov, who was located on the shore of Msta, was caught by an almost 2-meter miracle day.

Former US President Bill Klennon believes that the administration of George Bush made a mistake by going to the invasion of Iraq until the end of the UN inspectors. Clinton said this in an interview with Time magazine.

Georgy Yartsev is ready to make any decision of the Executive Committee of the Russian Football Union about his further work as the head coach of the Russian national football team. Recall that the Russian coach has a contract for the qualifying cycle of the World Cup-2006, but this agreement can terminate the RFU Executive Committee after its meeting. "The fate of the coach Yartsev is not yet known. I have a valid contract with the Russian football union until 2005.

In Adjaria, elections are held to the highest legislative body of autonomy - the Supreme Council. At 7:00 Moscow time, 301 polling station opened. The elections were scheduled after the former head of the Adjar autonomy, Aslan Abashidze, left the country due to the crisis that arose in relations with the new central authorities of Georgia. Since May, Adjara has been carried out by direct presidential rule through the Provisional Presidential Council.

India and Pakistan agreed to create a direct “hot line” of communication between foreign ministers of both states in order to ensure regional security and further strengthening of the atmosphere of trust, RIA Novosti reports. This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, widespread on Sunday after consultations at the level of experts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India and Pakistan on confidence measures in the nuclear region.

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and nine high -ranking officials of his regime will soon be transferred to the Iraqi government. This was announced on Sunday by the Emirate satellite television channel Al-Arabia with reference to the press secretary of the coalition forces in Iraq.

British director Alan Parker, presiding in the jury of the Moscow festival, wants to make a film about the Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin. He talked about this on Sunday on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. Parker noted that he would like to make a film that would reflect the attitude of the West to Gagarin.

Everton President Bill Kenrait said that Wayne Runi's price increased sharply after he scored two goals against the Switzerland national team at the European Championship. Now Everton, if he sells his striker, is no less than 50 million pounds for an amount. "Our manager David Moss and I came to the conclusion that Rooney, having received less than 50 million pounds for him, would be wrong," Kenrait noted in an interview with News of the World.

Inimitable, as it is called in the world, the star of world cinema Meryl Streep flew on Sunday to Moscow as a guest of the XXVI Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF). She flew accompanied by her husband and three daughters, reports Echo of Moscow .

The radical Shiite leader of the Muktada al-Sadr is invited to take part in the general Iracial conference, at which the composition of the Iraqi Provisional National Assembly (Parliament) will be chosen. According to the Katar satellite television channel AL-JAZeera, the chairman of the committee for the preparation of the conference of the conference Foid Maasum said at a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday.

In the Sernovodsky district of Chechnya, on suspicion of involvement in illegal, delivered formations (NVF), four militants were detained. About this RIA "Novosti" was reported on Sunday in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya.

The head of the Group Staff of the Italian Ground Forces General Julio Fraticelli, who arrived on Sunday to the South Iraksky city of En-Nasiria, confirmed that he received information from the special services about the arrival of the militants in this area to attack Italian military, RIA Novosti reports. According to Nasiria, the Italian news agency ANSA, the general told reporters that these could be Chechen militants or militants of a different nationality.

The forward of the Switzerland national team, Alexander Frey, is no longer under the investigation of the UEFA disciplinary committee, which was established for Frey’s unsportsmanlike act against the British and Stephen Jerrard in particular. Recall that one of the German television channels captured Frey at the moment when he made some spitting movements towards Jerrard. Moreover, Frey made this movement when he was behind Jerrard. “In this situation, we have not seen anything criminal.