Most of the deputies of the Lebanese Parliament spoke out for the appointment of the head of government Omar Karama. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to sources in the presidential palace, the results of the consultations of President Livan Emil Lakhud with members of parliament that ended there. 70 out of 128 deputies spoke out for the candidacy of Karam.

The Progress cargo ship with "Space Garbage" on board is flooded in the safe area of ​​the Pacific Ocean. “This truck conducted new technical experiments, the ultimate goal of which is to choose the type of orientation for autonomous modules,” said Viktor Blagov, deputy head of the flight of the ISS, the Russian flight head. The next progress truck was addicted to the ISS on March 2.

The corpse of the FSB of the Russian Federation destroyed the day before in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt in the Grozny district of Chechnya, the leader of the separatists Aslan Maskhadov, was officially identified, and this procedure was formalized by the relevant protocol, the military commandant of Chechnya, Lieutenant General Grigory Fomenko, who also participated in the identification of the remains of Maskhadov.

Police of the city of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) is investigating a shocking incident that occurred in high school. According to preliminary data, a 10-year-old boy in the school building became a victim of rape. The injured teenager claims that the senior comrade sexually abused him in a school restroom, reports NBC10 . The injured boy told the police that the rapist who attacked him was a 14 -year -old student of the same school.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow, considering the case against the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev and the ex-head of the NK Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, on Thursday will give a response to Lebedev’s defense of Lebedev to be allocated to the entire composition of the court. The protection of the head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev on Wednesday stated the divert of the composition of the Meshchansky court.

Lithuania Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas discussed the day before in Vilnius with the coordinator of the International Jewish Committee Andrew Baker the issue of returning to the Jewish communities of real estate, the Interfax agency was informed in the government’s press service. "The Lithuanian government is taking care of the return of the property of Jewish communities, and undeniable progress has been achieved in this area," Andrew Baker noted in an conversation.

The Czech biathlete Roman took out unexpectedly for many won a 20 kilometer race at the World Cup in the Austrian Hochfilzen. The time of the triumph 1: 00.24.5 at one miss on the fire line. This success is explained by difficult weather conditions under which the elite of the male biathlon performed below its capabilities.

Russian Vitaliy Kaloev, suspected of killing a Skyguide Swiss air traffic controller, will be transferred next week from a psychiatric clinic of the city of Rainau to the Regensdorf (Canton Zurich) prison. According to the Swiss Telegraph Agency, local authorities believe that Kaloev’s mental state has stabilized. Kaloev will be transferred to a chamber of increased safety, where he will be permanent observation, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Sverdlovsk region, a 25-year-old suspect in the theft is being searched, who escaped from the court building in the city of Kamensk-Uralsky.

The mentor of National Cathedral Ukraine Oleg Blokhin, most likely, will continue to train the team, remaining a people's deputy of Ukraine. The correspondent of RIA Novosti said on Wednesday by a press secretary of the Ukrainian National Football team Igor Miroshnichenko.

The United States continues to insist on the need for political settlement in Chechnya. This was stated on Wednesday by a press secretary of the US State Department Richard Bucher after it became known about the death of the leader of the Chechen separatists Aslan Maskhadov. "Our policy has not changed. We think that there should be a political settlement of the situation in Chechnya, and we continue to defend this path," said the Bucker, speaking at a briefing at the US State Department.

The Israeli Supreme Court decided to extradite to Russia the Israeli antiquar of Vladimir (Zeeva) Faynberg, whom Russian law enforcement agencies accuse of abduction of manuscripts from the historical archive of St. Petersburg . According to the local media, the Supreme Court thus confirmed the similar decision of the Tel Aviv district court and rejected the appeal filed by the Fainberg family.

The Pechersk local court of Kyiv has stopped a preventive measure in the form of an arrest of 98.71% of the shares of CJSC "Football Club Dynamo (Kyiv)". Such a definition, according to the Interfax agency, was issued on Wednesday by Judge of the Pechersk Court Inna Ostash. "The court believes that this preventive measure should be terminated in accordance with Article 62, clause 1, Article 62 of paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 of the Civil Procedure Code," the judge said.

A common practice to add folic acid to food can gradually change the genetic appearance of the population and even make future generations more vulnerable to dangerous diseases. Such a provocative hypothesis is put forward by Mark Lukok from the University of Newkal, Australia, and Zou Yates from the University of Lids, writes Nature magazine today (translation on the Inopressa website). Folic acid is a variety of vitamin B, necessary for many metabolic processes.

Dozens of people died and were injured as a result of a powerful explosion, which thundered on Wednesday morning near one of the central Baghdad hotels. According to the information received, the explosive device was laid down in a muscorflow truck and was put into effect on the walls of the hotel, where Iraqi police officers and foreign instructors who trained them lived. In the immediate vicinity of the place of the tragedy is the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture.