Applications of the Austrian doctors about the poisoning of dioxins of the presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko are in doubt, the head of the information-toxicological center of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Yuri Ostapenko said on Saturday in an interview with the Echo of Moskvy radio station on Saturday.

In the village of Khvanaya, the Novgorod region, a group disease of children with hepatitis "A" was registered, RIA Novosti reported on Saturday in the Novgorod Regional Center of the Gosanepidadnadzor (TsGSEN). In total, 7 people fell ill with hepatitis "A". Most of the victims are adolescents aged 14-16 from among students of the Khvininsky secondary school N 1. Patients are hospitalized at the infectious department of the district hospital, doctors evaluate their condition as satisfactory.

The governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev, in his current conversation with journalists, expressed satisfaction with the fact that the situation in Abkhazia "is returning to a peaceful direction." According to him, the border is currently again open, "the Moscow-Sukhumi train runs through it, and the PSOU river is operating." "All this allows us to say that numerous bilateral cooperation agreements enter into new power," the governor said, noting that "the world reigning in

A strong cyclone raging over Sakhalin for the second day actually blocked the air and ferry message between the island and the mainland. As Interfax was told in the Sakhalin Territorial Directorate for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, the elements caused strong snowfalls, snowstorms and storms, whose gusts on the coasts reach 27 meters per second.

In relation to the leader of the Ukrainian opposition, Viktor Yushchenko, an attempt was made to poison. This was announced at a press conference by the head of the Austrian clinic "Rudolfinerhaus" Michael Tsimpfer. "For the last 24 hours, we completed work on blood tests and we have no doubt left. Definitely we are talking about an attempt to poison dioxins," said Tsimpfer. According to him, the clinic doctors approached with great care to answer this question, RIA Novosti reports.

A few miles from Sakhalin, the Rubin rescue vessel took the uncontrolled trawler of the Arctic, which rushed to the western bank of the island.

The DaimlerchrySler automobile company recalls about 600 thousand Dodge Durango sports class cars and Dodge Dakota model pickups due to anxiety regarding their safety in operation, ABC reports with reference to the company made on Friday.

In the elections to the Taiwan Legislative Assembly, an opposition coalition led by the Gomintan party won. According to the latest data counting, the opposition has already received 115 out of 225 seats in parliament, ITAR-TASS reports. The main struggle in the elections unfolded between the opposition bloc and the democratic progressive party (DPP), the leader of which is the head of the island administration, Chen Shuybyan.

In the Norwegian Holmenkurn, a sprint race of women at 7.5 km of the second stage of the Biathlon World Cup, on the eve, was transferred to Saturday due to strong fog . From the start, Russian athletes began to be set in the race - Svetlana Ishmuratova and Olga Pulev were shot exactly at the first line, but Ishmuratova did not allow her to go to the leaders. Norwegian Liv Gret Poire was also accurate and seized leadership after the first line.

Today at 13:00 Moscow time, rescue work on the site of the explosion in the Mari refrigerant in Yoshkar-Ola was completed. As a result of the incident, 12 workers died. This was reported by the Itar-Tass by the operational duty department of the Ministry of Emergencies for Mari El. The tragedy occurred on December 9, when in the capital of Mari El, a powerful explosion thundered on the territory of the refrigeat, in the workshop workshop, a fire broke out.

Almost the whole day last Friday, the rescuers brigades fought for the life of the Wild South American Pig Kapivar, which unknown how I sailed on the central beach of Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro. Local television broadcast every half an hour of the actions of rescuers, who for ten hours tried to capture the animal with nets and pull it out of the water. The capivara either crawled ashore, then again rushed into the raging ocean, not giving up to people.

The International Motorsport Federation (FIA) published the official calendar of the World Cup in the classroom of cars "Formula 1" for the 2005 season. The season will begin on March 6 in Melbourne, and will end on October 16 in Shanghai. Competitions will consist of 19 stages-the same as last season plus the Turkish Grand Prix, whose debut was scheduled for August 21, reports F1.Riding-Live.com .

The court of Palermo sentenced the Italian Senator Marcello Dell 'by nine years in prison on charges of involvement in mafia activities. The prosecutor demanded at the process for the defendant 11 years in prison, RIA Novosti reports. Dell 'Uzie is one of the close associates of the Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi. The announcement of the verdict to the Utry immediately caused an acute reaction in the political circles of Italy.

As a result of a special operation, law enforcement officers destroyed the "Emir" of the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, Interfax was told on Saturday in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic.

Residents of the American state of Florida Kat and Harlan Bernard announced a strike due to the fact that their children do not help them at all at home work, the ABC channel reports. Parents installed a tent and several banners in front of their house: "Parents are striking" and "achieve respect and joint participation." Bernardy now refuse to cook, clean up their children and carry them until they form.