In Iraq, a citizen of Lebanon is again stolen - 27 -year -old Mohammed Yusef Rada. As the Lebanese media reported on Tuesday, the epic did not have time to end the night before the abduction of four Lebanese drivers in Iraq, when all of them finally received freedom, as the Iraqi group "Islamic movement of Iraq fighters" again announced the seizure of the Lebanese citizen.

The Belgian police managed to calculate three criminals who stole from the Museum of Diamonds in Antwerp in November 2003 12 rare diamonds from the AR deco collection with a total value of about one million euros. According to RIA Novosti , all three robbers are Yugoslavs and, according to Belgian law enforcement agencies, are part of an international organized criminal group.

Volleyball players of the Russian national team won the first victory at the Olympic tournament in Athens. On Tuesday, the wards of Gennady Shipulin in three parties outplayed the team of Australia. Moreover, if the first Russian team won quite easily, then the last two forced the Russians to make much more efforts - 3-0 (25:17, 26:24, 25:23).

Despite the support of most of the media, the opposition in Venezuela could not convince the ordinary citizens of the country that President Hugo Chavez should be removed from office. According to Die Tageszeitung , in several elections and referenda people democratically puts Chavez at the head of the country . At the same time, it is chosen by a large number of votes than leaders in other countries of Latin America. (Translation of the material - on the website inopressa.ru ).

In Pakistan, two terrorist attacks occurred on Tuesday night. As a result of the explosion of the bomb in the east of the country, a gas pipeline section belonging to the North North Gas Pipelines, as well as the railway tracks in the southern province of Shind, was damaged.

Children who died in early August in Vietnam had a mortal strain of "bird flu" in the blood, reports Reuters with reference to the Vietnamese doctors. One of the specialists of the Hanoi Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology told the agency that the virus strain is identified, and this is a fatal variety of H5N1 for humans. Initial studies showed the presence of children in the blood who died of illness in one of the northern provinces of the country, only the H5 virus recalls RIA Novosti .

A criminal case has been instituted against the company Novosibirskenergo on the fact of violations of the law in the formation of tariffs for electric and thermal energy in the Novosibirsk region.

In the Dagestan city of Kaspiysk, on Tuesday, the head of the department for combating extremism and criminal terrorism of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs, Lieutenant Colonel Gadzhi Abdurazakov and an employee of the anti -terrorism department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Groshev, were killed. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, at approximately 11:45 on Frunze Street, a police car was fired by unknown criminals.

Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktum of the United Arab Emirates won the first Olympic “gold” in the history of his country at the stand-up tournament in the exercise of the Dubble trap. The silver medalist in this competition was the Indian shooter Rajardhan Rutor. But Wang Zheng, who took third place, brought the next, already 16th medal to the piggy bank of the Chinese team.

The Moscow Arbitration Court refused to recognize the refusal of the bailiffs to accept 20% of the Sibneft shares belonging to the company's tax debt belonging to the NCC. Thus, the court refused the NK Yukos to satisfy the application for recognition by illegal inaction of the bailiff, who did not apply to the 20 percent stake in Sibneft owned by Yukos. During the court session, representatives of the bailiff service said that the claims of Yukos lawyers were unfounded.

The criminal case against the former leaders of the newspaper New Izvestia Igor Golembovsky and Sergey Agafonov was transferred to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. This was announced by "Echo of Moscow" by Golembovsky’s lawyer Sergey Grebenshchikov. “If the Prosecutor General finds the strength to read all 22 volumes of the case, and not formally approach the question, prosecutors will conclude that there are no signs of the corpus delicti in the case,” he said.

The United States refuses to recognize the results of the referendum to continue the powers of the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez and call on as soon as possible to start a full -scale transparent investigation regarding the frauds reported by the opposition.

The famous Russian pop singer Alsou accepted the proposal of businessman Roman Abramovich to execute the anthem of the Chelsea football club belonging to him. Who will become the author of music and text is not yet clear. In the same way, the amount of the fee, which will pay the singer Red Roman, does not report. Presumably, it will be about 16 thousand dollars, Kommersant reports.

In the Agin Dutsan (Buddhist Monastery) of the Aginsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug, a meeting of the Executive Council of the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace (ABKM) was held, ITAR-TASS reports.

The armed groups of Georgia and South Ossetia intend to conduct a joint operation against the "third forces", which pumps the situation in the conflict zone. This was reported to "Interfax" by the Minister of Defense of the Unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia Anatoly Barankevich.