More than a thousand soldiers and officers deserted from the British army since the beginning of the war in Iraq in March 2003. This was informed today by the British broadcasting corporation of the Air Force , citing data obtained during the discussion in the country of the country of the new law prohibiting desertion in the implementation of military operations abroad.

In the third match of the final series of the country's championship, the army team in a guest in a bitter struggle outplayed Khimki near Moscow with a score of 81:75 and became 13-fold champions of Russia. The hosts were effectively played by the defender Alexei Savkov (17 points) and striker Oscar Torres (19), while 17 points were shot in the basket of the Khimchan Sniper CSKA TRADZHAN LANNINGDON and the Theodora Papalukas.

The project of the Constitution of the European Union will continue to exist as one of the priority European projects. No one is going to put the cross on it. Such a resume was brought up by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria Ursula Plassnik with two-day discussions as part of a special informal meeting of the heads of foreign policy departments of the EU member countries, which ended today in the Austrian city of Klosternurg (Lower Austria), ITAR-TASS reports.

The number of earthquakes on Saturday morning on the Indonesian island of Java exceeded four thousand people, reports Sky News with reference to Indonesia. The exact number is 4285 people. About ten thousand were injured. 150 thousand inhabitants of the island of Java lost their shelter. According to reports coming from the Special District of Jokyakart (epicenter of an underground push), all seven hospitals of the district are full of wounded and bodies of the dead.

In Sukhumi, the office of the daily independent newspaper "necessary" completely burned down. This happened tonight in the center of the capital of Abkhazia, on Akademika Sakharov Street, where the newspaper was located in a private house. Firefighters could not extinguish the fire, and the building burned completely, and with it the newspaper archive for 11 years. The newspaper "necessary" - the first independent newspaper of Abkhazia - has been published since 1995.

In Dnepropetrovsk, the “demonstrative” hunger strike began under the walls of the City Council four young national radicals, protesting against the Russian language giving the status of the regional. Members of the local cell known for their anti -Russian and anti -Russian sentiments of the Ukrainian National Assembly - Ukrainian National Self -Defense (UNA -UNSO) promised to "stay on a diet" until the City Council canceled their decision or they will be sent to the hospital.

Over 10 million bottles of Borjomi mineral water bottles will be disposed of in Russia in the near future, the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko told Interfax. He stated that, according to May 25, in the warehouses of the Borjomi mineral water importers in Russia, according to experts, 10 million 328 thousand 884 bottles with Borjomi mineral water labels with a capacity of 1.5 to 0.2 liters are located.

About 1.5 thousand people take part in festive festivities on the occasion of the day of the border guard Moscow. This was reported by ITAR-TASS by the deputy head of the information department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, Yevgeny Gildeev. He noted that traditionally their professional holiday "green caps" celebrate in the Central Park of Culture and Rest.

In Moscow in the Central Park of Culture and Rest named after Gorky, a fight took place with the participation of former border guards, a source in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital told RIA Novosti . "At about 15:00 Moscow time, several vacationers were fighting in the park. As a result, two men received stab wounds, they were hospitalized," the agency’s interlocutor said. One of the victims is 21 years old, the other is 28 years old.

On Sunday, the match between the two Russian tennis players Dinara Safina and Vera Zvonareva started the first circle of the French open championship. Safina won, who defeated her compatriot with a score of 6: 3, 7: 5. In the starting batch, Safina quickly led 3-0, but Zvonareva was able to align the situation. Set promised to be curious, but Dinara was of a different opinion, who made every effort to reduce the degree of dispute - 6: 3.

Two militants voluntarily laid out weapons in Chechnya over the past day, Interfax was told in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. In the Shalinsky district, the militant issued the AK-74 Kalashnikov assault rifle, and in the Gudermes district, a participant in illegal armed groups voluntarily appeared in the police, saying that he became a participant in illegal armed groups in 2001, the Ministry of the Interior noted.

The peacekeepers recorded the fact of the flight of the Georgian Su-25 aircraft over the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, on Sunday, Interfax said on the phone from Tskhinvili the commander of mixed forces to maintain peace in the region Major Marat Kulamalametov. "The fact of the flight of the Georgian Su-25 aircraft was recorded on Saturday at 16:20. The plane flew around the conflict zone from the direction of the Java-Arzovi," Kulakhamtov said.

Russian tourist Irina Yushina, who suffered from an accident in Tunisia, was sent to Moscow today with a special defense. It will be delivered to one of the capital's clinics from Vnukovo Airport, where she will continue the course of treatment. The Russian woman was seriously injured as a result of a breakdown of one of the carousels in the Cartage Land entertainment Park in the resort city of Yasmin Hammamam on the last Wednesday.

World IBF champion in the heavy weight category Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko, in an interview with the official website of the brothers Klitschko, said that he would soon want to reach the ring. “So far, I can say that I don’t want to take long pauses and are going to hold my next fight already in October,” the champion said. “I will spend the fight in America and hope that this will happen in New York at the Madison Square Garden, who will become my rival, I can’t say it.

In the Baikal National Park, an extensive area of ​​forest with an area of ​​1.5 thousand hectares is on fire. This is one of the largest fire over the past few years in a specially protected territory. As ITAR-TASS reported today in the territorial airbase of forest protection, the fire arose three days ago. Due to dry and hot weather, the fire quickly spread through the taiga massif near the village of Buguldeik, located in the place where the river with the same name flows into Baikal.