At least two people were killed and 12 were injured at a wedding in Turkey, where the families of the bride and groom quarreled, the Kanal 7 television company reports on Thursday. The incident occurred on Wednesday evening in the province of Sakarya in the northwest of the country. The skirmish, which arose during the feast between the long -not -wing families of the newlyweds, quickly grew into an armed confrontation, RIA Novosti reports.

The court sentenced on charges of murder by 20 and 19 years in prison the two defendants in the case of the abduction of the first vice president of the LUKOIL NK Sergey Kukura. At the same time, the Smolensk Regional Court on Thursday withdrew from them charges on the episode to abduct Kukura. Residents of the Smolensk region Igor Ryabokon and Yuri Statsenko are also found guilty of the murder of local criminal authority Vladimir Vinokurov and his guard, Interfax reports.

Tom Dilai, the leader of the republican faction in the lower house of the US Congress, temporarily resigned his powers. This happened after the court in Texas charged him with violations of laws stipulating funds for political goals. Parliamentary historians report that this is the first case of charges of the current leader of the Congress faction for more than 100 years.

The Hollywood Films Warner Brosers and Universal are tired of fighting the dominance of pirate products in Russia and in China and decided to deprive their illegal competitors of the main advantage - low prices. The two largest foreign studios intend to increase the sales of cheap DVDs in these countries.

The territorial problem is the main point of Russian-Japanese relations, without a solution to which it is impossible to advance forward, said Japanese Prime Minister Japani Koizumi. “We intend to steadily strive to conclude a peace treaty with Russia after the four islands (southern smoking),” the prime minister said, answering Thursday in Tokyo to the question of the deputy of the lower house of parliament from the ruling liberal -democratic party of Seiko Hasimoto.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation is concerned about the reduction in the number of children in the country and the growth of indicators of their incidence and disability. This is stated in the materials that the ministry presented to the upcoming meeting of the Russian government on Thursday. The meeting will consider the concept of protecting children's health in the country for the period until 2010 and a plan for its implementation.

Since September 29, the gas sector introduces tight control over the ban on wearing weapons, Alla Khusni, the police commander in this Palestinian enclave, said on Thursday. The ban applies to all residents, with the exception of police and employees of militarized formations of the Palestinian administration. "After the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the gas sector, the need for wearing firearms who are not employees of power structures disappeared," Alla Husni said.

Two victories and two draws ended with the first day of the world chess championship , held in the Argentine province of San Louis. The Hungarian chess player Judit Poluger lost to the white ex-champion Indian Vishwanatan Anandu, and Bulgarian Veselin Topalov in black outplayed Hungarian Peter Leko. The party between the Russian Peter Svidler and Vice-Champion British Michael Adams ended with a draw.

On Wednesday, eight matches of the second round of the group stage of the football league of the champions of the season 2005/2006 in groups E, F, G and H.

The leader of the Al-Caida International Terrorist Network , Usama Ben Laden , who repeatedly declared his hatred for everything that the West personifies, was sought by political asylum in Britain, even when he already planned the attacks on September 11, 2001 in the United States.

The Iron Curtain, which for half a century separated the Communist Bloc from the capitalist West and brought fear to a whole generation of Europeans, will turn into a tourist route, writes The Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

In Moscow, the 65th anniversary of the creation of the famous novel “Master and Margarita” will celebrate the Bulgakovsky Cultural and Educational Center on Thursday. On the last Sunday of October, the Bulgakovsky House will open an art exhibition at which the “Work-Curiations” to the novel Master and Margarita “Zurab Tsereteli, Evgeny Chizhevsky and Elena Martynyuk will be presented.

In Moscow and the Moscow Region on Saturday, October 1, the maximum air temperature will be plus 17 degrees, the minimum will not drop below 10 degrees of heat. According to the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, the weather will be cloudy, with clearings, precipitation is not expected. Atmospheric pressure will be 754 millimeters of the mercury, relative humidity - 59%. South wind, 1-3 meters per second, RIA Novosti reports.

Three armed Palestinian militants died last night, September 29, from the fire of the military personnel of the Israeli army in the Dzhenin region in the north of the western bank of the Jordan River. Representatives of Palestinian security services and medical sources in Jennin distributed such information.

Lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, a representative of the initiative group for nomination of Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a candidate for State Duma deputies, accused the administration of "sailor silence" of intentionally counteracting the registration of the ex-head of the Yukos. “I want to pay attention to two facts. Firstly, the documents sent to the election by mail were brought there from the district council.