Iraqi President Jalal Talabani expressed the hope that the trial of Saddam Hussein would begin no later than two months later. In an interview with foreign journalists in Baghdad, he noted that "the Iraqi government is preparing a legal framework so that the court is able to make a decision that will determine the fate of the" former dictator ", ITAR-TASS reports. The leading Iraqi politicians have repeatedly advocated the speedy beginning of the trial of Saddam Hussein.

The National Hockey League intends to experimentally experience a number of innovations in the rules next week. According to RIA Novosti with reference to Canadian Press , the NHL leadership invited general managers and liga clubs to a small rink located next to Toronto Airport. At this rink there will be training sessions at which, in particular, the goalkeepers will put on the ammunition in the amount and will protect the gate with an increased area.

In the Latvian city of Liepaya on Tuesday, a memorial to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust opened. According to Ilana Ivanova, a member of the board of the Open Public Fund "Heritage of Liepais Jews", the memorial is installed in the Shredki cemetery. The monument is a menora - a traditional Jewish seven -heater. Its contours are made of cobblestones scattered across the field. In 1941, about 7 thousand Liepais Jews were shot in the Schved Dunes of the 21st Latvian police battalion.

Ahmad Shamaev was officially exempted from the duties of the mufti of the Chechen Republic. This was announced today by Interfax by the chairman of the Chechen government committee on relations with religious organizations Visradi Shirdev. He explained that a meeting of the Majlis (Council) of the clergy of the Chechen Republic took place in Grozny. It decided to release A. Shamayev from the duties of the mufti of Chechnya according to his application. "A.

The results of the referendum on Euro-Constitution in France, which has become the largest defeat of the Schirak government, have already led to the early retirement of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffaren. However, the consequences may be more serious: the struggle for the political course of Europe begins.

With the proposal to convene in the Italian city of Bari the joint Catholic-Orthodox cathedral for the purpose of reconciliation was the chairman of the Papal Council of Christians Cardinal Valter Kasper. This was announced today in an interview with journalists, the head of the Catholic Metropolis in Russia, Metropolitan Tadeusz Kondrusevich , reports ITAR-TASS.

In the Supreme Court of North Ossetia - Alania on Tuesday, after a two -week break, court hearings will continue in the case of the only terrorist of the bandits who captured a school in Beslan on September 1, 2004. At the previous meeting, the indictment was announced, and the defendant said that he did not plead guilty. Then, Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia, Nikolai Shepel, told reporters that the prosecution has enough evidence to confirm the defendant's guilt for all the charges.

In the Moscow region, a large cache with weapons was found. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, the cache was found last night in the forest southeast of the village of Mostovik of the Sergiev Posad district. According to ITAR-TASS in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the cache was a car tire slightly buried in the ground.

The Canadian province covers a 24-hour telephone hotline for helping suicides and transfer it to the daytime work. Such a decision was made by the authorities of the Prince of Prince Edward in the bay of St. Lawrence. The provinces of the province say that it is too expensive to maintain round -the -clock emergency communications, therefore, starting from June 1, it will be opened only on working days from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 to 17:00, Reuters reports.

In the orbital laboratory "photon" in a two -week flight from Baikonur, scorpions, newtons, hecticated and snails go. "The start of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, which will bring to the orbit the spacecraft" photon-M-2 ", is planned from the cosmodrome to 16:00," the Roskosmos said.

Moscow and Tokyo invariably remain in the directly opposite positions on the territorial dispute about the Kuril Islands. This was announced on Tuesday at a press conference in Tokyo by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, Interfax reports. “As for the peace treaty and the territorial issue, the positions of the parties remain unchanged. Our positions remain unchanged, they are directly opposite,” Lavrov stated after meeting with his Japanese colleague Nobutaka Matimura.

France President Jacques Shirak accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffaren and the entire composition of the government, ITAR-TASS reports. The resignation of Jean Pierre Raffaren was a foregone conclusion on the last Sunday, when the government suffered a major defeat at the referendum under the Unified Constitution of the European Union. Dominic de Wilpen, who is the closest ally of Jacques Shirak and his confidant, was the new prime minister of France.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Japan, where he will discuss the preparation of the upcoming visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan. Sergei Lavrov has already begun a series of meetings with prominent Japanese figures. He talked, in particular, with the co-chair of the Russian-Japanese Council of the sages, one of the leaders of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the former Prime Minister Josiro Mori.

The famous journalist Julia Latynina wrote a book about the history of the origin of Russian terrorism "Jahannes, or seeing a meeting in hell." In the book of Latynin, he debunks the beliefs that Russia is attacked by world terrorism in the person of Hattab and Ben Laden. According to the journalist, the society created the Russian terrorism itself, without help from abroad-the Russian oligarch-converter, Russian-General General, Russian mayor-appropriate, made their contributions.

In Iraq, an American Marine Corps was killed. According to the agency of the AR, a soldier of the second expeditionary corps of the United States died on Tuesday in the vicinity of the city of Ramadi about 115 kilometers west of Baghdad. Other details of the incident are not reported. According to the agency, since March 2003, at least 1662 American troops have died in Iraq, RIA Novosti notes.