The Hamas movement categorically refuted the plans of the murder of the head of the Palestinian autonomy of Mahmoud Abbas attributed to him. The official representative of the Gazi Hamad said that "such fabrications are aimed at sowing enmity between Hamas and the organization" Fath ", headed by Abbas.

The violence that did not stop in Iraq provoked a kind of “religious and ethnic cleaning” that led to the fact that thousands of refugees leave their homes and are looking for refuge in areas where representatives of their groups make up the majority, writes La Stampa (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

After the failure of the local elections, the Labor Party took only third place - hot debates split the ruling party. Some senior party members believe that Blair, guilty of the party’s failure, should immediately name the date of resignation. The British Prime Minister and large-scale rearrangements in the government did not help. Earlier, Blair said that he would not run for a new term, but, as it became known on Monday, did not intend to premiere and announce the date of his departure.

The scandal with the Spy Stone did not affect the relationship between Russia and the UK. Despite the fact that at some point it might seem that the situation was serious, there were no significant consequences for either side or the other side. According to the British newspaper The Guardian , all this suggests that the true purpose of the FSB operation was not British spies, but Russian non -governmental organizations (the full text of the article on the website inopressa.ru ).

Russia can in the future expand the volume of financial assistance to the Palestinian National Administration, said Sergey Yakovlev, special representative of the Russian Foreign Minister for Middle Eastern settlement. “This is not excluded,” Yakovlev told reporters to New York.

About 12% of Russians unconditionally support the slogan "Russia for Russians." These are the results of the sociological survey of the analytical center of Yuri Levada, which are given by the Echo of Moscow radio station. According to the results of the study, this slogan “within reasonable limits” is supported by about 40% of the surveyed citizens of the Russian Federation, and 24% relate to it rather negatively, considering it a manifestation of “real fascism”.

The famous French football player Zinedine Zidan, playing for Madrid Real Madrid, spent the last match at Santiago Bernabeu the day before. According to the Marca newspaper, the fight with Villarreal ended with a score of 3: 3, and Zizu scored the second ball of his team with a score of 1: 2. Zidan was replaced in the last minute of the game, but after the final whistle, he went to the center of the field and said goodbye to the fans who redeemed him in the sea of ​​standing ovation.

President George Bush nominated on Monday the candidacy of General Michael Hayden to the post of director of the CIA. Hayden, a professional military man who served in the Air Force for 40 years, is currently the first deputy director of the National Intelligence Service. Hayden is considered one of the authors of the program for intercepting the telephone conversations of Americans and correspondence by e -mail without sanction.

According to updated data, in Thailand, eight people were killed in a fire in a nightclub, about 50 were injured, the TNT National Information Agency said on Monday. The tragedy occurred on Sunday evening in one of the entertainment centers in the resort city of Patay of the Northern Province of Chonburi. According to the local police, when the fire broke out in one of the halls, about 300 people were in the club. All victims are employees of the nightclub.

Georgia "with a high degree of probability" will leave the CIS. This was announced today in Tallinn by the State Minister of Georgia on Euro -Atlantic Integration George Baramidze. Speaking at a press conference following meetings with representatives of the Estonian leadership, Baramidze said that his country's participation in the CIS was very limited. "We used the CIS more as a stand for dialogue with Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth.

Russian President Vladimir Putin today laid a wreath to the grave of an unknown soldier in the Alexander Garden near the Kremlin wall.

The guitarist of the world-famous ROLLING Stones ROLLING STONES Cat Richards underwent a brain removal surgery, which was formed as a result of an injury received at one of Fiji resorts at the end of April. According to the New Zealand New Zealand Herald, the health status of a 62-year-old musician causes much more serious concerns than this was previously approved. Richards was injured by his head due to falling from a five-meter height during the collection of coconuts.

In St. Petersburg, about 50 people went to a rally, which is held as part of the International Day of Solidarity of Anti-Fascists, an Interfax correspondent reports from the scene. Among the audience are the activists of the Yabloko party, the Youth Movement "Defense", the Society "Memorial", as well as a number of radical anti -fascist organizations. They hold the posters "Fascism will not pass!", "There is no fascism of all stripes!" and a number of others.

The Thai Constitutional Court annulled the results of the recent parliamentary elections and appointed a new vote. This decision was made according to the results of the Extraordinary Session of the Constitutional Court that held today in Bangkok.

By order of the head of the Government Commission to assist relatives of the dead and eliminating the consequences of the A-320 aircraft, Igor Levitin, a headquarters was formed for the technical assistance of the rise of on-board self-writings. As stated in a press release from the Ministry of Transport, on behalf of the Minister, the headquarters will be headed by the head of Rosmorrechflot Alexander Davydenko.