US President George Bush examined the united operational center of the Northern Command of the US Armed Forces in the US Air Force Basire at the US Air Force in Colorado-Springs (Colorado), from where the headquarters of this command controls the situation in the zone of Rita expected in the coming hours of the Hurricane Rita. According to the NBS television company, Bush will spend the upcoming night at the St.

Israel today has undergone the most large missile shelling from the end of the processing process in the gas sector. According to AFP, 21 missiles were released from the Palestinian side in the Israeli city of the Palestinian side. As a result of the attack, according to preliminary data, various Israelis received various injuries. Probably, in this way, the Palestinians decided to punish Israel for an explosion during a rally of supporters of the radical group "Hamas".

The spill of oil products in Vladivostok, as a result of which the fuel oil hit the sea, occurred last night on the territory of one of the military units of the Pacific Fleet. As Interfax was told on Saturday in the press service of the city administration, the causes of environmental disaster were reported at a meeting of the emergency headquarters under the leadership of the first vice-mayor of Vladivostok Yuri Korene.

About 300 small entrepreneurs of the Bobrov district of the Voronezh region on Saturday for 30 minutes blocked the federal highway Moscow-Rostov-on-Don in the territory of their district in protest, the Interfax correspondent reports. Entrepreneurs protest against the fact that the Bobrovsky district authorities decided to close the central market of the district center, going to reconstruct it.

According to updated data, as a result of the collapse of the roof in the Greek museum, one died and six tourists were injured, the Athenian News Agency said on Saturday morning. The day before, due to a strong wind, a metal roof collapsed over archaeological excavations-museum in the town of Acrotiri on the island of Santorin. On Saturday night, the body of a British tourist was extracted from under the fallen roof.

The European Union introduced a draft resolution for discussion of the IAEA, of which Tehran accuses of violation of obligations in the nuclear region, which can lead to the transfer of the Iranian "nuclear dossier" to the UN Security Council. However, the terms of sending documents are not discussed in the document.

The Russian language possessed the inhabitants of the Baltic countries to occupy the upper lines in the list of bilingual peoples of the European Union, evaluate the data of the Center for Sociological Studies of the European Commission "Eurobarometer". The first line is occupied by Luxembourg, 99% of whose inhabitants speak foreign languages. In second place is Latvia with 93%, in the third - Malta. In Lithuania, this figure is 90%, in Estonia - 87%.

More than three thousand civilians have suffered over the past ten years in Chechnya as a result of demolitions on mines and unexploded ammunition, Interfax was told on Saturday in the UN Office for the coordination of humanitarian issues in the Russian Federation. "The total number of cases of undermining on mines and unexploded ammunition registered by UNICEF since 1995 is 3031 (including 2340 injuries and 641 death cases)," the UN Office said.

The first appointments in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will be known already on Tuesday evening, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuri Yehanurov, opening the Cabinet of Council on Saturday. According to him, a large half of the government will become known on Tuesday. "The first part of the appointments will be carried out no later than the evening of Tuesday. I think that this will be most of the government members.

Rostekhnadzor allowed the operation of IL-96-300, said Vladimir Belyakov, Deputy Director General of the Air Company Ilyushin. "As far as I know, although I have been on a business trip for two weeks, the IL-96-300 permit was signed by Rostekhnadzor," he said. Belyakov did not specify when exactly it was signed. “There are no technical problems that would require stopping the operation of the aircraft,” he added.

The disqualification for four matches and a fine of 20,000 Swiss francs are waiting for the head coach of the Bulgarian football team Christ Christ Stoichkov for sharp statements against the President of the Union of European Football Associations of the Swede Lennart Yukhansson. The decision on punishment was made by the disciplinary commission of the International Federation of Football Associations and can be appealed to the appeal commission, ITAR -TASS reports.

Basketball players of the Russian national team will fight at the European Championship only in seventh place. In the first match of the tournament for the 5-8th place, the team of Sergei Babkov lost the Lithuanian team with a score of 78:89 (21:23, 23:15, 16:21, 18:30). As in the quarter -finals against the Greeks, the Russians were stronger in the first half of the game, but then they allowed the opponent to take possession of the initiative and were defeated.

The Ministers of Finance and the Head of the Central Banks of the Big Seven countries agreed at a meeting in Washington Key steps to stabilize oil prices. The meeting was also attended by delegations of Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa. As noted in the commander, "seven", the world economy as a whole begins to expand, and the forecast for further growth is positive.

The jury recognized completely guilty and not deserving the condescens of six accused of the murder of the acting General Director of the Air Defense Concern "Almaz-Antei" Igor Klimov. As Interfax was told on Saturday in the Moscow City Court, the jury college was confused the day before for several hours, after which she made a completely indictment and found all six guilty of Klimov’s murder. In addition, according to the jury, none of the accused deserves condescension.

In the Prionezhsky district of Karelia, 22 people were injured on Saturday, when the bus fell in the dumplings, was told to Interfax in the North-Western regional center of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies. On the bus "PAZ", while he tried to call on the mountain, the diesel engine suddenly stopped working. The driver could not cope with the management, and the bus fell from the mountain to the ditch. There were 40 people on the bus. As a result of an accident, 22 people were injured.