The Law Committee of the US Senate decided to take the initiative of democrats for the legalization of 1.5 million immigrants from Latin America working in agriculture for discussion. The initiative also involves the release of priests, doctors and human rights activists who assist illegal immigrants from the persecution, RIA Novosti reports.

A series of abductions occurred in Iraq. Only in the last two days, at least 35 people have been abducted in Baghdad. People were openly captured in stores, currency exchange points and one trading company, CNN reports. On Tuesday, armed people in military uniform burst into the currency exchange point in the Baghdad suburb of Harisia, took hosts of six employees and stole a large amount of money - $ 15 million and 15 million Iraqi dinars.

The Lithuanian Government and the Russian Tax Code of the Yukos agreed on the price of the redeemed 53.7% of the shares of the Lithuanian oil -annexer Mazeikiu Nafta , which will amount to more than $ 1.5 billion. Yukos will receive $ 1.2 billion plus dividends for 2005 - this is almost 1 billion liters (290 million euros). The terms of the transaction are reported by Interfax with reference to the Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos Rytas.

At a meeting in the Kremlin with key members of the Cabinet of Ministers, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a number of unexpectedly frank confessions regarding the situation in the Russian economy. The figurative speech of the head of state, replete with vocabulary, which can be mildly characterized as informal, concerned, however, only of a separate aspect - the organization of woodworking in the country.

In the Mikhailovsky Garden in St. Petersburg, on Tuesday, large -scale trees will be transplanted using technology, which was developed under Peter I in the 18th century - using equestrian force. A unique operation will be carried out for the first time in 100 years. About five large trees aged 10 to 45 years growing in the garden will be moved to a new place in connection with the new landscape layout, they told Interfax in the State Russian Museum (timing).

That night, winter was frozen for the last time the metropolitan region. Forecasters assure that she will no longer look into Moscow. According to Roshydromet, meteorological spring will come on Wednesday. Experts explained that average daily temperatures will be above zero. Today in the early morning hours the thermometer in the city will drop to minus 8-10 degrees, in its center - up to minus 5, in the region - up to 8-13 degrees below zero.

The statements that China is building up military power and can threaten the USA military plan, as they distract attention from the main threat - China’s economic and cultural domination in the world. The policy pursued by the United States in the world arena only worsens the situation, believes Emmanuel Pasterch, a scientist from the University of Pennsylvania. In the American press, calls are increasingly sounding to pay attention to the extension of China’s military power.

The famous Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan suffered during the filming of his new film "Rob-B-Hood", which are currently taking place in Hong Kong. The actor was taken to the hospital for examination. Doctors did not find serious damage to the 52-year-old victim. The incident occurred on March 23, but information about this appeared only on Tuesday. As it turned out, one of the invited stuntmen put on the wrong shoes and hit Chana too much in the chest.

Several tens of thousands of homeless dogs live in Moscow, and they gradually change the habitat. So, at present there are more at the metro stations, environmentalists state. “There are fewer of them in the center. But there are sections in the city where there are more dogs,” said the researcher at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution named after Severtsov Alexei Vereshchagin on Tuesday at deputy hearings in the Moscow City Duma.

Director Stephen Soderberg in July will begin filming the film "Thirteen friends of Ocean." The main roles in the new picture, as in the previous two “eleven friends of Ocean” (2001) and “Twelve friends of Ocean” (2004), will play George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon. This was announced the day before by the Warner Brothers studio. The film will be released in the summer of 2007, reports Ar.

In the village of Ust-Natva, the Perm region, the Perm region, due to careless handling of fire, completely burned out a 2-story eight-killer residential building. According to the Interfax agency in the press service of the Volga-Ural Regional Center of Civil Defense and Emergencies, during the dismantling of the fire, the bodies of four people whose identities are established were discovered. Links on the topic

The unique gold products of ancient nomads are presented at the exhibition that opened on Tuesday in the halls of the State Museum of the East in Moscow. All exhibits were found by archaeologists in Kazakhstan in the 1969-1970s during excavations of one of the mounds near Alma-Ata. According to experts, the discovered objects date back to the V-IV centuries BC. In ancient times, nomads and settled tribes were adjacent to the territory of modern Kazakhstan.

In Israel, extraordinary parliamentary elections are held on Tuesday. Citizens who have the right to vote will have to elect deputies in a 120-seater Knesset. The party leader, who received the largest number of places in parliament, is the president of the country Moshe Katsav will instruct the government to form.

Having accumulated 200 billion dollars of gold and foreign exchange reserves, the Bank of Russia finally saved exporters from the obligation to sell part of the foreign exchange earnings. The Central Bank canceled this norm, introduced back in the time of the USSR, when the country was on the verge of bankruptcy. This measure was introduced in 1991. Since then, all exporters without fail sold part of their currency revenue.

The national protest against the “first hiring agreement” takes place on Tuesday in France on the initiative of trade union and youth organizations of the country. As expected, the call to the trade unions was widely supported by transport workers. Already in the morning, the number of trains and suburban trains on the railways was noticeably decreased, where the strike officially began on Monday in the evening, RIA Novosti reports.