Six people died and 26 were injured today as a result of undermining two mined cars in the city of Tikrit, 160 km north of Baghdad. According to representatives of the Tikrite police, four dead and 18 wounded - law enforcement officers. The rest are civilians, reports ITAR -TASS. The first explosion thundered opposite the city police academy, the second - before the United States Bureau located nearby. In both cases, carriers-suicide terrorists were driving.

As a result of the careless handling of weapons near the post of Russian peacekeepers in the Zhino-Abkhaz conflict, a native of Georgia died. Russian peacekeepers are not involved in the incident. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today in the press group of collective forces to maintain the world (KSPM) in the conflict zone.

More than six thousand prisoners were released from Iraqi prisons. This was reported on Sunday by the Qatari news agency with reference to the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights. According to him, the prisoners were released after the decision of the United Committee to control the affairs of the Iraqi prisoners with the participation of the coalition command all charges were removed from them.

Part of the weapon stolen during the attack on the on -duty part of the State Directorate in Nalchik in December 2004 is still on the wanted list. On Sunday, Interfax, a source in Kabardino-Balkaria’s law enforcement agencies, reported to the Interfax agency. On Friday, several units of stolen weapons were extracted from a cache in Nalchik. "However, several dozen Makarov pistols stolen by drug police are still wanted," the agency’s source said.

In Spain, they are outraged by the Vatican’s call for Spanish civil servants to refuse to observe the law on same -sex marriages. The law allowing such marriages was adopted by the Parliament of Spain last Thursday. The call to the Spanish Catholic civil servants refuse to combine the marriage of people of the same sex on the pages of the Italian newspaper Corierre Della Sera from the lips of the Colombian Cardinal Alfonso Truchillo.

The fourth final meeting of the country's volleyball championship between Dynamo's capital and Belgorod Lokomotiv-Belogorye ended with the victory of Muscovites, and now to identify the champion it will be necessary to play the last decisive match. The most titled club in Russia "Lokomotiv-Belogorye", after success on the Saturday duel, would again become the champion of the country, but the metropolitan masters turned out to be stronger in the stubborn five-season match.

Pakistan and India intend to organize a series of bilateral football matches - for the first time in the history of these countries. Such an initiative was made by the President of the Pakistanese Football Federation Feisal Salekh Haiyat. Khayat told reporters that the Pakistani side invited the Indian team to hold a tour in Pakistan in June this year. This will be the first football tour of this kind for all almost 60 years of confrontation between India and Pakistan.

Two villages in North Ossetia are isolated by water elements, Interfax was informed in the EMERCOM of North Ossetia. On Sunday, the Sadon and Galon rivers, overflowing due to heavy rains, came out of the shores, as a result of which a bridge was demolished, leading to the village of Upper Zgid and Sadon. Thus, more than 200 residents of these mountain villages were isolated.

At the end of 2004, Russia entered the top three countries where the number of anti -Semitic sorties increased, said the Minister of Jerusalem and the Diaspora of the Government of Israel Nathan Scheransky. "According to our data, over the past year in Russia there has been a deterioration in the situation, an increase in anti -Semitic sentiments," Scharanian "Interfax" said.

In Vancouver, the Organizational Committee of the 2010 Olympics chose the emblem of the Winter Olympic Games. The man on the emblem will be called "Ilanaak" that in the language of the Canadian northern nation, the Inoite (Eskimos of Canada) means "friend". The emblem is a man “collected” of five stones of “Olympic” flowers.

On Sunday, Kazan Communists held a rally, which ended with a call to pensioners to take part in the May Day demonstration, RIA Novosti reports. Only about 50 people came to the rally in front of the Tatar State Academic Theater named after Galiascar Kamal. The organizers of the rally - members of the City Committee of the Communist Party and deputies of the Communist faction of the State Council (Parliament) of Tatarstan Robert Sadykov and Nasima Stolyarov performed before them.

For 11 days, which remained to the universal parliamentary elections on May 5 , the ruling Labor Party of Great Britain, led by Tony Blair, retains the highest chances of victory. This is evidenced by the results of two polls of public opinion published today. According to the results of a sociological study conducted by the experts of the Service "Your Government", 37 percent of the British are ready to cast their votes for the ruling party.

The DPRK promised to strengthen its forces of nuclear deterrence and stated that her army was able to destroy any enemy with one blow. This was announced today in Pyongyan by the chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, Vice-Marshal Kim Eun Chun, speaking at a national meeting on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the creation of the Armed Forces.

The Russian national hockey team for the first time in its history becomes the winner of the Europeanchockeyur. In the final series, the team of Vladimir Krikunov was stronger than the Swedish team. The first final meeting of these rivals took place in Stockholm on April 22 and ended with the victory of Russians with a score of 2: 1, and therefore it was appropriate to talk about a certain advantage of our team before the return fight.

In the self -proclaimed "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" (TRSK), the official ceremony of the transfer of the presidential authorities took place today. At a solemn meeting in the National Parliament, the new President of TRK was declared Mehmet Ali Talat, who won the elections on April 17 and replaced the 81-year-old veteran of Turkish-Kirkoye policy Rauf Denctash in this post. Talat is considered a supporter of the unification of Cyprus and the rapprochement of TRK with the EU.