The main intelligence department of Jordan (Grui) has become the most important and effective CIA ally in the Middle East in the fight against terrorism, squeezing the Israeli Mossad from this place, the newspaper Los Angeles Times notes. According to the newspaper, Jordan and the United States, they work closely, conducting interrogations of suspected terrorists, the methods of these "interviews" were widely criticized in the media due to the alleged use of torture.

A clash occurred near the village of Avtures of the Shalinsky district of Chechnya. One militant was destroyed. According to the Russian military, there are no victims among the federal forces. Radio "Freedom" reports one dead soldier. According to Interfax on Saturday morning, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic Ruslan Alkhanov, according to operational data, the killed Arab mercenary of the militants.

Before the wedding with a commoner, which will take place on Tuesday November 15 at noon in the Tokyo Imperial Hotel, the Japanese Princess Sayako said goodbye to the imperial family. According to the Office of the Imperial Court, dressed in a purple kimono of twelve layers with green and orange shades, the 36-year-old princess apologized to the deities and spirits of the former emperors, and then performed the recognition of the parents (Tecen Hi).

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova in the semifinals of the final tournament of the Year of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), which takes place in Los Angeles, will meet with Frenchwoman Amelie Mororemo. This became known after the final matches of the group tournament took place. Frenchwoman Marie Pierce became the winner in the "black" group, having outplayed her compatriot Mororemo - 2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2.

Nadezhda Pavlova was brutally beaten in Ivanovo on Thursday evening and hospitalized, a member of the “Union of Right Forces” and was hospitalized, the chairman of the Ivanovo Regional Commission on Human Rights, Sergei Valkov, told Interfax. “I run into the regional Duma both according to the list of ATP and in a single -mandate district. Hope helped my assistant to put campaign leaflets with my portrait, and just at that moment they attacked her and beat her,” said Valkov.

The Norwegian Peter Solberg during the next 13th stage of "Rally Australia" collided with a kangaroo. Solberg tried to avoid a collision leading all the time of the competition. However, the speed was very high, and the kangaroo appeared so unexpectedly on the highway that the motor driver could not do anything. The kangaroo died, and the badly damaged Subaru barely reached the finish line. The Norwegian who lost his leadership could not continue the competition, reports rtr-sport.ru .

In the center of Lyon on Saturday, youth groups tried to arrange riots, and the police used grenades with tear gas to accelerate hooligans. According to the France Info radio station, the clashes between the participants in the riots and the police occurred in the area of ​​Belurku Square in the central part of the city. The number of participants in clashes and possible victims has not yet been reported.

The head coach of the Russian youth team Andrei Chernoshov claims that the game of his wards against Denmark in the first butt match Che-2006 will not depend on the size of the premium, although the players know the sum of bonuses. “I will not say that their game will depend on this.

In Chechnya, as a result of an armed robbery in the village of Dolinskoye, the Grozny district, two people were stolen and a car was stolen in which they moved.

Israeli military sailors opened a warning fire on the Palestinian fishing boat, which entered the zone closed for navigation off the coast of the Gaza sector. Local media, citing Palestinian sources, report a serious injury to a 17-year-old fisherman. The press service of the Israeli defense army does not confirm this information. “After warning shots, the boat changed the course and returned to the shore on its own.

The tendency to reduce the scope of unrest in France has stopped, moreover, over the 16th night, the number of incidents has slightly increased compared to the previous days. This is evidenced by the data that the Main Directorate of the National Police published on Saturday. On the night of Friday to Saturday, 502 cars were burned in the country (the previous night - 463). For involvement in the riots, 206 people were detained (on the eve of 201).

A cache with weapons and ammunition was found in Kabardino-Balkaria as part of an investigation of a criminal case on the fact of an armed attack on Nalchik. "In one of the houses of a horticultural society in the Urvan district of Kabardino -Balkaria, a cache with weapons was found, which belonged to the leader of the Wahhabitan Band of Astemirov, destroyed during the armed attack of the militants on Nalchik," a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic told Interfax.

In Brazil, the trial of the ex-champion of the world in boxing Mike Tyson, who is accused this time of beating a Brazilian journalist , began. On Friday, the 39-year-old ex-champion of the world appeared in the court of the Brazilian city of San Paulo. The judge decided that Tyson could not "get rid of" public work, since several cases have already been instituted in the United States. Now the Iron Mike is obliged to return to Brazil in March 2006, where the process will continue.

Former first assistant to the President of Ukraine, Alexander Tretyakov, said that he had not received notifications from Boris Berezovsky’s lawyers, who would have a demand to apologize to the businessman for the alleged dissemination of untruthful information. Tretyakov told reporters on Saturday in Kyiv that he did not know what was at all. "I did not receive a single letter either at the place of work or at the place of residence.

In Japan, 640 thousand people can die from "bird flu" if the virus spreading in the country mutates in a form dangerous for a person, the ASAHI newspaper writes on Saturday. According to the publication, the government intends to form a special committee for the production of countermeasures in this connection in this connection. In particular, to prevent the spread of a possible epidemic, it is supposed to close the places of public entertainment, parks and schools.