The largest drop in the US dollar exchange rate over the past five years has occurred in the last 48 hours in world financial markets. To the closure of trading in Europe for one euros, $ 1.2136 were given, ITAR-TASS reports. The American currency has lost 2.64% of its cost in the last two trading sessions of 2006 compared to the euro. This is the highest euro course in relation to the American currency over the past 2 months.

The surgery for the destruction of the group of militants blocked in the town of the Black Forest between the villages of Gimra and Shamilkal was suspended on Wednesday morning in the Untsukulsky district of Dagestan is suspended at night.

Tehran scientists also purchase details for creating a ballistic missile capable of reaching Europe - “Applications for imports and purchases were recorded almost daily,” the information of a number of Western intelligence services, which the British newspaper The Guardian , said.

On Wednesday morning, during a visit to Australia, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ruler of Dubai Sheikh Maktum Ben Rashed al-Maktum, died. This was announced by the Katar satellite television channel Al Jazeera . Sheikh Mactum ruled the emirate Dubai since 1990. According to diplomatic sources, the 62-year-old ruler of the emirate suffered from a heart disease, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Kemerovo, on Wednesday night, a subsidence of the upper tier of the Dam of the South Kuzbass GRES occurred, the operational duty officer of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies told Interfax. According to him, the subsidence area was 15 square meters. As a result of the incident, a flooding of gardening plots occurred.

Former head of the Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon, General Rustum Gazzal, G. G. G. G. Gerseum to appear before the UN Commission to prove his non-involvement in the death of the ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He reported this on Wednesday in an interview with the Catar satellite television channel Al Jazeera. "I give myself completely subordination to international investigators and provide them with all the materials that I have, including financial," said Gazzal.

According to the latest data, about 270 people in Indonesia are buried alive under a powerful landslide, which went from the mountains to the village located in the lowland as a result of protracted tropical rainfalls. According to reports from Jakarta, the tragedy occurred today before dawn, when most of the residents of the small village of Chijruk, located 355 km east of Jakarta in the central part of the island of Java, still slept or made morning prayers.

According to official figures, 12 out of 13 miners blocked after the explosion in the mine in West Virginia were killed. Previously published CNN information that 12 miners, having spent 80 meters 36 hours at a depth of 80 meters, survived, was refuted by officials. Only one survived, and he was taken to the hospital in critical condition. All bodies are removed to the surface. The name of the survivor is Randal McCloy (Randall McCloy Jr).

The environment was marked in Iraq with a whole series of terrorist attacks and attacks. At least 36 people died and 40 were injured on Wednesday as a result of a terrorist attack in the city of Mukdady, located 80 kilometers north of Baghdad. The suicide bomber blew himself up on the funeral ceremony, where he managed to penetrate and quietly mix with the crowd. The explosion thundered about an hour of the afternoon in local time during the procession of a mourning procession, CNN reports.

On the night on Wednesday, the front front of Nitrobenzole water waters of the Amur River reached the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in which over 200 thousand inhabitants live. As Interfax was informed on Wednesday in the Far Eastern Regional Center (DVRC) of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, there are no disconnection of urban water intakes, since the concentration of harmful substances was significantly diluted in the course of promoting the stain along the Amur.

The Russian striker of the Washington Capitals club Alexander Ovechkin was recognized as the best beginner of the month of the National Hockey League. According to the official website of the NHL , the Russian was ahead of his main competitor in the struggle for the title of the best newcomer of the season - Sidney Crosby from Pittsburgh Penguins, as well as Peter Pruch (Rangers) and Antero Nittumaki (Flyers).

The Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexei Miller and the head of Naftogaz of Ukraine Alexei Ivchenko made a sensational statement based on the results of the negotiations: the gas conflict was settled, prices were agreed. At the same time, each side nominally achieved its own. Russia will sell gas to 230 dollars, and Ukraine will buy 95.

The United States rejected the DPRK requirement to remove financial sanctions introduced against this country. At the same time, they spoke out against Pyongyang's linking this issue with the resumption of six -way negotiations on a nuclear problem. “These are two different questions,” the official representative of the State Department Sean McCormak told reporters the day before. According to him, the United States is ready to resume negotiations, ITAR-TASS reports.

American troops liberated the son -in -law and Shurin Saddam Hussein - Jamal Mustafa Sultan and Luel Herallah on Tuesday. This was reported on Wednesday by the Iraqi newspaper Al-Bayan al-Jedida. Jamal Mustafa is the husband of the youngest daughter of the former Iraqi leader - Hala and the only of the three sons in the ex -president who survived. Hussein ordered the other two others to kill after their attempt to escape from Iraq.

The Russian crew of Vladimir Chagin Kamaz-Master team at the first stages of the International Local Authority Dakar-2006 won the fourth in a row. The fourth stage of Er Rashidia-UARZAZAT 639 km long and 386 km specialized. The riders had to overcome steep mountain passes, the channels of dried rivers, pits and potholes. The crew of Chagina perfectly coped with the role of the leading racing and finished first for the fourth time.