The Israeli Air Force today destroyed two in the GAZ sector and wounded one militant of the Hamas movement while trying to launch a rocket towards Israel in the area of ​​the village of Beit Lahia. Air Force attacks followed the massive bombing of the Israeli territory by home -made missiles "Kassam".

At the World Cup, a group of group C was held, in which Holland players won with Serbia and Montenegro with a score of 1: 0. The victory of the "Orange" was formed thanks to Aryen Robben, who inflicted an irresistible blow in the 18th minute of the meeting. Leipzig. "Centralstadion". Judge: Marcus Merk (Germany).

The associates of the terrorist Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi, before his death, found foreign "volunteers for conducting hostilities in Iraq and preparing suicide terrorists." This was reported with reference to the officials of the United States and Jordan today is reported by the New York Times .

Over the past five years, Russia has become a stronger state - almost half (46%) of surveyed citizens of the country has been sure of this, a quarter (26%) believe that nothing has changed in this regard, 16% - that the country has become weaker over the years. Such results of the survey were published in Moscow by the Public Opinion Foundation. The study was conducted in early June in 100 settlements of 44 regions, regions and republics of Russia with the participation of 1,500 people.

Thousands of Hong Kong schoolchildren this week were distributed training materials in which one of the scandalous cartoons on the Prophet Muhammad was printed, on Sunday reports the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post. Representatives of the Network of International Schools of Hong Kong already apologized for their "mistake" in front of the Muslims of the city and promised to delete the page with caricature from those copies that were not yet born students.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky intends to take part in the 2008 presidential election. The Vice Speaker of the State Duma, the leader of the LDPR, said this on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

Cool weather with short -term rains awaits residents of the Moscow region on Sunday. Such a forecast was provided by ITAR-TASS in Roshydromet. During the day, variable cloudiness is expected in the capital and the suburbs, in some places short -term rain. The air in Moscow warms up to 16-18, in the region-to 14-19 degrees. The wind is cool - northern, 3-8 meters per second. Atmospheric pressure - slightly increased - 751 mm Harating.

A sports plane fell in the suburbs, two people died. According to Interfax, a source in law enforcement agencies, on Sunday at about 16:00 on a country road between the settlements of Shebarshino and Klementyevo in the Mozhaisk district of the Moscow region, a sports aircraft Yak-52 fell. “As a result of the fall on the site of injuries, the pilot and instructor Alexander Spigovsky and the Courty man died,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

In Grozny today, a member of an armed attack on Ingushetia was detained by a resident of Chechnya Zeemkhan Gardaloev. According to ITAR-TASS in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, Gardaloev was wanted as a participant in the armed attack on Ingushetia, committed on June 21-22, 2004.

Spaniard Rafael Nadal won the opening championship of France in tennis. In the final, the second racket of the tournament fought with the first seeded Swiss Rozhe Federer and prevailed with a score of 1: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4, 7: 6 (7: 4). The match lasted more than three hours. In the first set, Nadal made a lot of unmuffy errors and allowed Federer of the story 5: 0. However, starting from the second set, the Spaniard was able to mobilize.

India on Sunday conducted a test of medium-range missile "Prothvi" Class-Earth-Earth ", reports PTI. The launch of the rocket from the mobile installation was carried out at 13 hours 40 minutes local time at the Chandipur training ground in Orissa. In 2004, India experienced the third modification of the Prothvi missile, which is intended for marine starts and can carry a nuclear charge. The range of its flight is 250-300 kilometers.

The unknown shot in Yalta deputy of the Zaporizhzhya City Council from Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BUT) Viktor Savkin, Interfax told the head of the Center for Public Relations of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Crimea Alexander Dombrovsky. "Savkin came to Yalta to celebrate the birthday of his Zaporizhzhya comrade. When he approached the car on Saturday on Khalturin Street, an unknown person approached him and shot four times from a pistol," Dombrovsky said.

The health status of a passenger who suffered in the disaster of the Yak-52 sports aircraft in the Tver region does not pose a danger to his life. Today, 34-year-old Igor Kurbatov with a traumatic brain injury and foot injury was sent for treatment to Moscow. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Kashinsky district trolley.

In the Nazran district of Ingushetia, a base of militants was discovered, where a car was found, on which, perhaps, the last high -profile killings in the republic were committed. As Interfax reported on Sunday in the Public Relations group of the Federal Security Service in Ingushetia, the militants' base was discovered by UFSB officers during special affairs in the forest in the vicinity of the Yandare village. Currently, the base is blocked, measures are being taken to check it.

The Palestinian militants subjected the southern regions of Israel to the massive shelling, heavily wounding one Israeli, RIA Novosti was told in the Army press service. From the night, the militants operating in the gas sector launched the city and its surroundings of 12 reactive shells of the Kassam type, the agency’s interlocutor said. Doctors evaluate the condition of the victim as critical.