Category up to 51 kilograms Kubinets Yuriorkis Gamboa won the gold medal for the country, winning the Frenchman Jerome Thomas in the final of the boxing tournament. Gamboa - one of the seven Cubans who fight in the finals of the Olympic boxing tournament - captured the advantage from the starting gong, conducting magnificent combinations of the right and left. However, closer to the end of the round, the Frenchman reduced the lag to one point.

In Grozny, a meeting was held President Chechnya Sergei Abramov with members of the delegation of the Council of Europe and PACE, which arrived in the republic with a three-day trip to collect material on the political and humanitarian situation in the North Caucasus region, ITAR-TASS reports.

Two people, including a citizen of Ukraine, were killed and 26 were injured as a result of a collision of a bus with a car near Madrid. A car driver 37-year-old US citizen and a 27-year-old citizen of Ukraine died during a collision. 26 people were injured, including the husband of the Ukrainian. All of them are hospitalized.

The armed clashes between the militants of the Mahdi Army, headed by Muktada al-Sadr, and the US troops broke out on Saturday morning in the Baghdad suburbs of Madinat-Sadr, reports AP with reference to eyewitnesses. According to the representative of the US military command, the clashes began after the American military patrol underwent shelling from automatic weapons and grenade launchers. The Americans opened fire. There are no losses among the American troops, said Captain Brian O'Amalli.

Hungarian Ferenz Djorkovich, who won the silver of the 2004 Olympiad in heavy athletics in the category of up to 105 kg, and Puertoor Mable Fontseck, who performed in the freestyle wrestling tournament, are disqualified for the use of doping. This was reported by representatives of the International Olympic Committee. Doping tests of the Hungarian gateway gave a positive result for anabolic steroid Oksandrolon.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine confirms the information that two Ukrainian peacekeepers were injured in Kosovo. This was announced on Saturday by the representative of the press service of the Minister of Defense on Saturday. Details of the incident have not yet been reported. The official comment will be distributed in the near future. Foreign media reports on Saturday about two injured Ukrainian peacekeepers in Kosovo as a result of a fire on a military base.

According to the newspaper Washington Post , a Pentagon employee suspected of espionage in favor of Israel is a certain Larry Franklin, a former employee of the US Department of Defense. The official position of Franklin in the Pentagon is the referent of the Bureau on the problems of the Middle East and South Asia. According to sources, Franklin worked for the special services of the Ministry of Defense for almost 20 years.

In the Volgograd region, 18 people out of 26, who died on the evening of August 24, were held in the Volgograd region in a plane crash under the Tula Tu-134 aircraft of Volga-Aviarekspress, ITAR-TASS reports. Most of the relatives of the victims expressed a wish to take their loved ones on the last journey from the house and called the burial places themselves.

An additional analytical study of fragments of the Tu-134 aircraft, which broke up in the Tula region, was carried out in Moscow, discovered traces of Hexogen. " This was announced by ITAR-TASS today by the head of the FSB of the Russian Federation Sergey Ignatchenko. On the eve of the study of the fragments of the Tu-154 aircraft, which fell near Rostov, the FSB experts also found traces of Hexogen .

Russian sports officials will conduct investigations for each case of using domestic doping athletes. This will be done after the Russian team returns to his homeland after the Olympics. Recall that during the games, the Russians recorded three cases of doping. This was stated by the head of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism Vyacheslav Fetisov. “We pay great attention to the topic of doping.

Today in the afternoon, the installation and installation of URN and the cabins for secret voting during the presidential election, which will be held on Sunday, August 29, was completed at all 430 polling stations of Chechnya. The commissioning and checking of all radio and telephone systems also ended successfully. All territorial precinct election commissions are completely ready for the early elections of the President of Chechnya.

The Office of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus completed the investigation and sent a criminal case to the court against another 13 terrorists who took part in the attack on Ingushetia on June 21. This was announced on Saturday by Interfax, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Sergey Friedinsky.

On the eve of Europe, the Old World Super Bowl was played. In the final match, which was held in Monaco, Portuguese Porto and the Spanish Valencia met. The weakness of the "port", from which, in the off -season, many significant figures were proved by defeat from the Spaniards - 1: 2. The Spaniards distinguished themselves in the 33rd minute - the goal was scored by Ruben Barah. In the 67th minute, Marco Di Wyo strengthened the advantage of his team - 2: 0.

The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, stored in the Vatican, was officially transferred to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II , Interfax reports. On Saturday, August 28, at the end of the solemn Bo -service in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin, the head of the Papal Council for the promotion of Christian unity, Cardinal Valter Kasper on behalf of the Pope John Paul II handed the Patriarch the image of the Virgin.

A terrible picture appeared before the bailiffs who visited the apartment in the French town of Shatellerro. Instead of a malicious tax payer, they discovered a human skeleton. As it turned out, the bones belonged to the owner of the apartment. Judging by the position of the bones, he died a natural death, lying on the couch in front of the TV. The horror of the situation is that the corpse managed to decompose, and no one even asked the fate of the unfortunate, reports AFP.