Sukkot begins tonight - one of the most funny Jewish holidays. If all other Jewish holidays are celebrated at home, in the family circle, then Jews leave the houses in Sukkot and live in huts specially built for this day on the street, in the open air. Shalash is built in memory of the wanderings of the Jewish people in the desert for 40 years. Sukkot is a holiday of joy for the glory of the Creator and his kindness to the Jewish people during the exit from Egypt.

In Egypt, the court sentenced the former champion of the country and Africa in Kung Fu and his wife to the death penalty for double murder, local media write. The Mufti of Egypt approved the decision of the court, who sentenced criminals, whose names are not reported, to hang. In December 1999, a married couple invited two sisters who were friends of the athlete’s wife, under the pretext of selling beautiful fabric. In the apartment, criminals killed the girls, and then dismembered their bodies.

Some of the things, mainly clothes and shoes discovered at the place of collapse of the Transvaal Park building, are still unclaimed, they reported on Wednesday in the Moscow Prosecutor's Office. Visitors to the water park who did not turn for things, the investigation convincingly asks to contact the Moscow prosecutor’s office by phone 959-55-74.

American billionaire George Soros decided to start a personal crusade against the re -election of George Bush in the US president in the November 2 election. Against Bush, he already voted in a wallet, spending 18 million dollars on the campaign, but he believes that this is not enough.

The Federation Council approved the law on gratuitous transfer to the property to religious organizations of land plots. 136 senators spoke for approval, 5 - refrained, reports Interfax. The law provides for amendments to the Land Code, as well as to the current law "On the turnover of land of agricultural".

According to various surveys and interviews conducted in 20 countries, from Canada to Mexico, from London to Paris, from Jakarta to Beijing, President Bush is extremely unpopular as a presidential candidate. Senator John Kerry looks like an unconditional favorite abroad, and this despite the fact that few people outside the United States know anything about this representative of the Democrats Party from Massachusetts and his position on international policy issues, writes The Washington Post .

The Italians of Simon Paris and Simon Torretta, freed on Tuesday from captivity in Iraq, think about the relay of work in this country. They reported this on Wednesday to reporters in Rome. Simona Torret said that "she will repeat everything, even knowing about the consequences." Simone Paris also noted that "he is soon going to return to Iraq, to ​​the country that she fell in love," Interfax reports.

In the Orenburg region during the human rights film festival "Stalker" director Lidia Polshchikova-Tumaeva died. According to ITAR-TASS, the head of the regional association "Kinovideo" Yuri Drannikov, on the eve of the director returned to Orenburg from a meeting with moviegoers in the city of Orsk. At the village of Sarakratash, a minibus, in which Polshchikova-Tumaeva rode, rolled over. There are no other victims among passengers of the minibus.

In Warsaw, Wednesday at about 13:00 local time in an office building on the corner of Gzhibovskaya and Khutovo Streets and an explosion occurred. The explosion occurred on the seventh floor of a 10-story building. According to the latest data, as a result of the incident, one person was injured. The victim was hospitalized, but nothing is reported about his condition. According to eyewitnesses, the explosion knocked out windows on the 7th floor.

At the Cultural Center of the United States, located in the very center of the Turkish capital, an explosion thundered at 22:05 Moscow time. As ITAR-TASS, eyewitnesses, citing police officers on duty next to the center, brought into action a non-fried explosive device. According to preliminary data, there are no victims as a result of the explosion. The windows of neighboring buildings adjacent to the cultural center were knocked out by an explosive wave.

"The current Russian leaders is spoiling with the main democratic values ​​of the Euro -Atlantic community," the NATO and EU member states and governments of the NATO member states, which are published on Wednesday and the text of which fell into the hands of the Financial Times Deutschland , said.

On the island of Wise, a school opened in the Adriatic Sea, which will go to only one student. The 7-year-old boy Armando Smicitsich recently began to study at this tiny school. The island of Wish is located 50 kilometers from the coast of Croatia. The Ministry of Education of the country sent to the island of the teacher after the boy’s mother, Dzhagoda Smikitsich, for two years, flooded them with letters, claiming that her son had a constitutional right to get an education.

Today, when Russia crossed the five -year border of the entry of troops into the Chechen Republic, a peaceful decision of the conflict seems more difficult than ever.

The Commission for the Clutch of the Ulyanovsk Region satisfied the statement by Yuri Budanov about the recall of the petition for pardon. Such a decision was made following the results of the office meeting of the commission on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports.

In the mountainous district of Yakutia, a 40-year-old previously convicted man suspected of a double murder was detained. According to the information department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District, the corpses of a 20-year-old girl and a 28-year-old man with firearms with a thumbnail to the head and chest were found in the Forestry near the Yakutsk-Berdigesta road.