Saddam Hussein claims that in prison it remains inconsistent. “My spirit and my moral state are high, praise to the Almighty,” he assures loved ones in a letter, where out of 14 lines nine is lured with military censorship. A brief message on the standard form was transferred to members of the family of the former Iraqi dictator by the International Committee of the Red Cross, after representatives of this organization visited the prisoner in February.

The heading of the national team of the Netherlands of the Netherlands for the match with Latvia is not even the exit of his team to the quarterfinals of Euro 2004, but the coaching career of Dicka Lawyer. Both teams in this meeting need an exclusively victory to continue the fight in the tournament.

Sports observers of leading British media express perplexity in connection with the promise of Marat Safin to never come to the Wimbledon tournament, given by a 24-year-old tennis player after the defeat in the first circle from the young compatriot Dmitry Tursunov, ITAR-TASS notes. “I will no longer play on Wimbledon,” said Marat. “This tournament is definitely not for me. I don’t want to waste time training on herbal courts, knowing that I won’t play good here.

At least 11 people were killed, six were injured as a result of a car accident that occurred on Tuesday late in the area of ​​the city of Poitiers in the west of France. This was announced by the Police of the VEN department, RIA Novosti reports. The bus, in which there were about 50 people, flew over the road fence and fell into a ditch, turning over onto the roof. Rescuers who arrived at the scene found 11 corpses. Six people were injured, more than 30 escaped with mild damage and injuries.

Today, before the start of the evening service, the miraculous Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God, who arrived a few hours ago in the Russian capital, was delivered to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The solemn meeting of the Orthodox shrine was headed by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II . As the correspondent of the Interfax agency reported, about 5 thousand people gathered for the service - parishioners of Moscow temples and representatives of the clergy of the capital.

In the suburbs, a robbery on the house of the conductor of the Bolshoi Theater was committed in the Moscow Region, Interfax was told in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region. On Tuesday, at about 3:00, the Bolshoi Theater conductor Alexander Sotnikov turned to the duty unit of the Odintsovo district. He said that at about 01:15 Five unknown people penetrated his house in the village of Molodenovo, Odintsovo district.

The US Federal Trade Commission unanimously approved Rjreynolds Tobacco Holdings on buying a competitor to Brown & Williamson (B& W) for $ 3 billion, Interfax reports with reference to The Wall Street Journal . The transaction, which was announced in October last year , will unite Reynolds with a large American branch of British American Tobacco. As a result, the second largest cigarette manufacturer in the world will be created, which will become the main competitor of Philip Morris.

In the Lomonosov harbor of the Gulf of Finland, as a result of the collapse of one of the berths belonging to the Leningrad naval base, a pipe for pumping petroleum products was damaged. As Interfax was informed in the North-Western regional center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, as a result of an accident that occurred around 11:30, about 11:30, about the tones of the fuel oil poured into the gavan.

The Moscow Arbitration Court lifted the ban from the execution of the decision of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties in relation to the Yukos NK , satisfying the MRS appeal against the court ruling of May 19 on the suspension of the tax authorities on the additional accrual of the Yukos of taxes in the amount of 99,375 billion rubles. On April 11, 2004, the Ministry of Taxes and Railways made a decision on the additional accrual of the company Yukos taxes, penalties and fines for the above amount.

The diplomats of the British Embassy in the Islamic Republic met today with eight British sailors detained in the southwest of the country. According to one of the members of the delegation, they feel good, they treat them with dignity, reports ITAR-TASS. To date, according to the diplomat, the contacts between the Iranian side and representatives of the British embassy are completed. The release of sailors is postponed until Thursday.

The son of the former president of France Francois Mitteran Jean-Cristophe, detained on Tuesday on suspicion of laundering, was released on freedom. He spent one day under the supervision of police officers on suspicion of violations when financing his fishing company in Mauritania. Jean-Cristofa Mitteran was detained on Tuesday, but he had to be released, since evidence of his guilt was not found.

The situation with the insult to Philip Kirkorov, journalist Irina Aroyan, is not amazing, the singer Alexander Novikov said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station , who took part in the action “Write a letter from Philip Kirkorov” on one of the Russian sites. “The fact that he insulted her is not surprising to me, it is amazing to me that almost all the artists defended Kirkorov and accused Irina Aroyan in everything,” said Alexander Novikov.

In the Tyumen region, on charges of terrorism, members of the Khizb Ut-Tahrir al-Islami party were arrested. As the correspondent of RIA Novosti was told in the prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region, 10 people were arrested in Tobolsk and Tyumen on charges of terrorism. Among them are the leader of the Tyumen Islamic Cultural Center Marat Saibatalov and Imam Dmitry Petrichenko.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, until the end of 2004, intends to complete the renewal of commercial debt of the former USSR in the Eurobonds of the Russian Federation, said the director of the Department of International Financial Organizations, the State Long and State Floods of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the

The United States is ready to consider the exclusion of the DPRK from the list of countries that support terrorism if Pyongyang agrees to verify the dismantling of their nuclear objects. According to RIA Novosti , informed sources in Beijing, the head of the US delegation, assistant to Secretary of State James Kelly, stated in six -sided negotiations under the Nuclear Program of the DPRK.