Russian sabbists won the "gold" at the World Fencing Championship, which takes place in German Leipzig. In the final of team competitions, the Russian four consisting of Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Alexei Yakimenko, Alexei Dyachenko and Alexei Frosin won the Italians with a score of 45:44. The first round of the Russia -Italy fight began Stanislav Pozdnyakov and Aldo Montano, the press service of the Russian fencing Federation reports.

China is ready to train foreign astronauts. About this, as Sinhua reports, said the representative of the Cosmic Center of China by Chuanshen. According to him, the country already has the training technology of astronauts, including from abroad, but it is necessary to build additional training centers. The space center is already considering the training of foreign astronauts as one of the tasks of their development, he added.

As a result of the operation to eliminate the militants who attacked Nalchik, 92 bandits were killed, 13 were detained. Such figures were announced on Saturday at a press conference in Nalchik, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Andrei Novikov. He noted that the detainees are already testifying. “But more involvement in the militants is checked,” he added.

At the court in Uzbekistan, 15 people accused of organizing unrest in Andijan in May of this year, one of the witnesses unexpectedly stated that government troops were the first to open fire during clashes, the Air Force reports According to Makhbuba Zakirova, she also saw how troops at the Uzbek-Cyrgist border shot at people who held white flags. This version contradicts the statements of the Uzbek government about what happened during the riots.

On Saturday morning in Shanghai, there was a qualification of the last, 19th stage of the World Cup in the Cars in the classroom of Formula-1 cars-the Grand Prix of China. The new champion Fernando Alonso from the Renault team won the sixth this season and the ninth in the career of the Powl-Upers, showing the best time in qualification before the final race of the season.

In the Sergius-Poskad near Moscow, a group of skinheads attacked Muslims in a prayer house. This was announced on Saturday by the head of the press service of the Council of Mufties of Russia (SMR) Radik Amirov. “After Friday prayer on October 14, a group of shavat-headed young people of eight to ten people with armature, shovels and bricks in their hands burst into the only prayer house in Sergiev Posad,” Amirov told RIA Novosti .

A referendum on the country's constitution began in Iraq, RIA Novosti reports. In all provinces of Iraq on Saturday, doors of more than 30 thousand plots for voting opened. The right to vote in Iraq is possessed by persons who have reached the age of 18. These, according to the Central Election Commission, are just over 15 million 550 thousand.

In the village of Borzo, the Shata district of Chechnya, on Saturday, the funeral of the police major Ibrahim Susaev, who died in Nalchik, took place on Saturday. He received numerous gunshot wounds during the reflection of the attacks of bandits on the center for combating extremism and criminal terrorism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus.

The number of victims of the earthquake of the eighth of October eighth in Pakistan to 38 thousand people grew, 62 thousand were injured, reports AP. This was stated on Saturday by the official representative of the Armed Forces of Pakistan, Major General Shaukat Sultan. Earlier, 25 thousand people were officially considered victims of the earthquake in Pakistan.

The Russian team fell into the third basket of the draw of the European Football Championship, which will be held on January 27, 2006 in the Swiss Montro, UEFA.com reports. The leadership of the Union of European Football Associations on Saturday announced the results of sowing 50 teams that were divided into seven baskets. The criterion was the results of the performance of the teams in the qualifying tournaments of Euro 2004 and the World Cup-2006.

Tom won an important victory in the 26th round of the Russian football championship. On Saturday, the wards of Anatoly Byshovts with a score of 3: 0 outplayed the Perm "Amkar" in their field. The decisive goals with an interval of 4 minutes in the middle of the second half were scored by the defender Andryus Skerla and Havbek Evgeny Kaleshin.

The Ministry of Agriculture of Romania on Saturday announced that the Bird influenza virus found in the country belongs to the type H5N1, which is deadly for people. It is from the H5N1 virus in various Asian countries that about 60 people have already died.

In Iraq, pounds for voting at the referendum on the project of the new Constitution of the country , whose participants were invited to answer the only question printed in the ballot for voting in two languages ​​- Arabic and Kurdish: "Do you agree with the Iraqi constitution?" The referendum was attended by 61% of citizens with the right to vote, or about 8.5 million people. This was stated in Baghdad by the secretary of the Central Election Commission Adele al-Lami.

Former President of Ecuador Lucio Gutierrez was arrested on Friday evening at the airport of Manta, where he arrived from Columbia, RIA Novosti reports. In a military helicopter, he was sent to Kito and is currently in the metropolitan prison. The ex-president of Ecuador is charged with an encroachment on state security.

Russia still does not see the grounds for the transfer of the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday after meeting with US Secretary of State Condolizes Rice, RIA Novosti reports. "In the current situation, we do not see the grounds for transferring this issue from the IAEA to other organizations," the Russian minister told reporters.