Police-psychologists aimed at identifying terrorists began to work at airports and stations. This was announced on Wednesday by the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Alexander Chekalin, after the end of the operational meeting on ensuring the safety of the holiday season in Tuapse. According to him, "today dozens of employees in civilian clothes are on duty at airports and at stations and in places of mass accumulation of people.

As a result of attacks in various areas of Iraq, three American troops were killed. According to on Wednesday, a representative of the US Army command in Baghdad, the day before, the American military base in the city of Tikrit, located 160 km north of the Iraq capital, was fired from automatic weapons. Two infantrymen from the 42nd division were killed.

The broadcast of Channel One in the near future may stop in the third of the country, said the Minister of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Alexander Sokolov at a meeting of the State Duma, speaking within the framework of the "government hour". As a reason, he called a strong depreciation of satellite equipment, expressing concern about the catastrophic state of technical support for television and radio broadcasting in Russia.

In the coming days, New York can withdraw his candidacy for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, Michael Bloomberg, mayor of the largest city in the USA, told reporters on Tuesday. “We brought America,” said Bloomberg, commenting on the decision made on the eve of the New York Control Commission to block the construction of the Olympic stadium on Manhattan.

In the Rzhev, the Tver region as a result of the disease with viral hepatitis A, the number of hospitalized reached 275 people, of which 61 children. According to May 7, about 240 people were delivered to hospitals from May 30, including 44 children. According to the Interfax Wednesday in the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, the alleged cause of the disease is the eating of products of OJSC Rzhevpivo.

In the state of California, a person suspected of trying to abduct a woman was captured after a long persecution of his car by the police. In the end, the car was surrounded. The person whose surname has not yet been reported has been hospitalized, nothing is known about his condition, AR reports. According to the representative of the police, Jill Carrillo, the criminal was armed with two pistols and a knife. Even a special tape with spikes did not help stop the car.

As a result of a deadly epidemic of legionellosis in the south of Norway, 54 people were hospitalized, 10 died. According to NTB Norwegian news agency on Wednesday, the sanitary services discovered the bacterial epidemics in the air purification system at the Borregaard chemical concern in the city of Sarpsborg. Bacteria entered the environment along with water steam from air purification systems. Bacteria were found in air conditioners, water pipes and even showers, RIA Novosti reports.

The Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison Megiddo announced on June 8 a hunger strike against the "desecration of the Qur'an" by Israeli soldiers. In the morning they refused to go to the dining room or use the kitchens available in the cells, ITAR-TASS reports. A day earlier, the Israeli parliamentarian Ahmed Tibi accused the country's prison authorities of defile the holy book of Muslims - the Koran.

In the Vinnitsa region of Ukraine on Wednesday night, a tourist bus collided with a car, three people were killed. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine, the driver and passengers of a car became victims of the accident. The causes of the incident are not reported. In total, in 96 traffic accidents, eight people were killed in 96 traffic accidents, 116 were injured.

In the Nizhny Tagil of the Sverdlovsk region, the police detained three schoolchildren involved in the robbery of apartments. Among the detainees was one girl. According to the press service of the department of private security under the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the region, adolescents were detained due to the fact that one of the victims recognized a robber in a 14-year-old schoolgirl met on the street.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation refused to consider the bill on the introduction of popular elections of deputies of the upper house of the Russian parliament. On Wednesday, deputies rejected the initiative of the independent deputy Viktor Pokhmelkin, who proposed amending the Constitution of the Russian Federation aimed at fixing the direct elections of the members of the Federation Council.

The team of Japan was the first to won a ticket to the final stage of the World Cup, which will be held in 2006 in Germany. This became known after on Wednesday in the qualifying match in the Asian zone the national team of the rising sun outplayed the North Korea team with a score of 2: 0. The Japanese with 12 points reached the first place in the group and got the right to go to the World Cup in Germany, RIA Novosti reports.

In Makhachkala, an attempt was committed to a deputy of the district assembly of the Novolaksky district, the former head of the administration of this district Timur Omayev. According to the Interfax on Wednesday in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, on June 7 at 22:30 on Hamidov Avenue an unknown criminal fired several shots in Omaev.

Kharkov’s sanitary doctors ordered the heads of housing and operational offices to clean the attics of multi-storey buildings entrusted to them from bats. This measure is caused by the frequent complaints of the townspeople that bats fly into the windows of their apartments and even attack people, ITAR-TASS reports. Since the beginning of this year in the Kiev district alone, bats were bitten by three people.

Alfa-Bank returned 270 million rubles to the Kommersant publishing house. “Today, the corresponding procedure was carried out, and the money was written off from Alfa -Bank accounts and transferred to our accounts,” Georgy Ivanov said the head of the Legal Service of Kommersant Law Service on Wednesday.