Deeply concerned about the development of events in Western Sudan, the Pope John Pavel II sent the chairman of the Papal Council of Cor Unum Archbishop Paul Joseph Cordes into this country with a special mission, the day before the press of the Holy See.

In Moscow, they do not have information about Russian citizens who suffered as a result of a railway disaster in Turkey . This was stated on Friday to the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Yakovenko. "According to the Russian Embassy in Ankara, at the moment, there is no information about the victims of this disaster from among Russian citizens," he said.

The column with a faulty military equipment of the Ossetian peacekeeping battalion from the mixed forces to maintain peace (SSPM) went from Tskhinvali to Russia, said Svyatoslav Nabzdorov, commander of the SSPM in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. According to him, several faulty armored vehicles are transported by tractors.

The deputy mandate of Viktor Gerashchenko was transferred to the television journalist Mikhail Markelov. The corresponding resolution was adopted on Friday by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation due to the fact that Gerashchenko transferred to the post of chairman of the Board of Directors of the NK Yukos .

The tornado, which fell on Friday evening at the village of Dzhubga in the Tuapse area (Krasnodar Territory), almost led to human victims. The press service of the Main Directorate of the Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of the Krasnodar Territory "Interfax" reported that as a result of the tornado, six people - local residents were carried away in the sea. However, thanks to the operational actions of the rescuers, they are all saved.

In the Voronezh region, a killer of a 5-year-old boy who lived in Nizhny Novgorod was detained. On the eve of the offender was transferred to Nizhny Novgorod. This was reported by NTA-Volga region by the acting prosecutor of the Kanavinsky district of Nizhny Novgorod Nikolai Berezin. The 29-year-old native of Armenia Rudolf Harutyunyan admitted that he strangled the child near the silicate lake in the Leninsky district of the city.

As a result of a traffic accident in the Primorsky Territory, five people were killed on Friday and three were injured. The accident occurred on the 23rd kilometer of the Khorol -Arsenyev highway. Among the dead, two children are nine years and three months, the main department of the traffic police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reported on Friday. All wounded are placed in intensive care units of local hospitals, Interfax reports.

The report of the independent commission, investigating the circumstances of the attacks on September 11 in the United States, counted at least "10 serious missed opportunities" stop the terrorists. The report, numbering 567 pages, has already appeared in US bookstores.

In the north of Iraq on Thursday , a decapitated corpse of a foreigner was discovered . According to Iraqi police, the murdered person is a native of one of the Western states. According to them, his body, wrapped in a bedspread, and his head were found on the banks of the Tiger River near the city of Baeji, 180 kilometers north of Baghdad, reports News Agency. According to the agency, the identity of the deceased has already been established. This is 30-year-old George Lazov.

The Iraq Ministry of Foreign Affairs will soon publish the information "On the Secret Relations and Contacts" Saddam Hussein with Israel, in an interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Kubas, Foreign Minister Iraqiar Zibari. According to him, in the last days of Hussein’s stay in power, “attempts to save his skin” and hoped that Israel would help him in this.

In the northern capital, the police officer of the territorial department of one of the district units of the St. Petersburg Central Internal Affairs Directorate was detained on suspicion of murder of a pensioner. The criminal was detained by military personnel of the internal troops near the house of 5 on Sevastyanov Street in the Moscow district.

Moody's International rating agency confirmed the ratings of 17 Russian banks. At the same time, the agency reduced the financial stability rating of Alfa-Bank to “D-” D and confirmed the bank’s currency deposits at the current level-“BA2”, according to the Moody's press release.

The American aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy collided with an Arab wooden boat. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the statement of the command of the Fifth Navy of the United States, which includes an aircraft carrier. The incident occurred on Thursday late in the evening. The place of collision, as a result of which the boat sank, is not specified, RIA Novosti reports. Search and rescue operations were launched, but no one could save anyone from the crew of the boat.

According to updated data, as a result of a railway disaster in Turkey near the city of Pamukov, 36 people were killed in the province of Sakaria, 57 were injured. This was reported on Friday in the Ministry of Health of Turkey, reports AR. Earlier, 139 dead were reported , and then about 128. The high-speed train, following the route of Istanbul-Akara, suffered on Thursday a crash about two hours after departure from Istanbul. In total, there were 243 people on the train.

The football union of Germany (FSG) held negotiations with Jurgen Klinsman, who will probably lead the team of the hosts of the World Cup-2006. This information is confirmed on the official website of the FSG - Klinsmann living in California on Tuesday flew to negotiations in New York. The ex-football player of the German national team met with the President of the Federal Security Service Gerhard Mayer-Felder and other representative of the Union Horst Schmidt.