In Shanghai, on Thursday, the anniversary fifth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), uniting Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, opened. The media is of particular interest to the first meeting of the presidents of Russia and Iran. Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad arrived at the summit in the rank of observer and already asked the organization to protect his country from the "illegal intervention" of the West. The meeting began after 11 am Moscow time.

The UN Security Council on Thursday extended for a year - until June 15, 2007 - the mandate of the International Commission for the Investigation of the Murder of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and expanded his powers for other crimes that may be associated with him.

A scandal that had recently been swept around the world with the publication of cartoons on the Prophet Muhammad received a new and unexpected continuation in Singapore. The city-state police are investigated by the case of a 21-year-old citizen of the island of the Republic, who is accused of distributing cartoons insulting for Christians to Jesus Christ.

Transnistria has never been part of Moldova, has all the signs of an independent state and has every right to independence. Such conclusions came a group of American historians and political scientists, participants in the Deatho agreements on the section of Yugoslavia.

On June 15, in Makhachkala, the head of the territorial department of Rospotrebnadzor in the Republic of Dagestan, the chief state sanitary doctor of Dagestan Eleonor Omariev, at a press conference, informed reporters that three outbreaks of acute intestinal infection (OKA) of salmonellosis etiology have been registered in the republic.

This morning, an explosion occurred in the European part of the center of Istanbul. The bomb was located in a garbage container near bus stops in the popular tourist area of ​​Eminon. At about 10:20 local time (11:20 in Moscow), explosives detonated, RIA Novosti reports. According to preliminary data, at least four people suffered. As a result of the explosion, one of the victims was torn off.

Russian aircraft Yak-42 Airlines "Aviation Lines of the Kuban" ( Alk ), which performed the Krasnodar-Stambul flight, on Thursday when landing at the International Airport named after Ataturka rolled out of the runway in Istanbul. As a result of the incident, no one was injured, but the incident caused a panic of 37 passengers who were on board the aircraft, DHA reports.

The jury of the 63rd Venice Film Festival will be headed by the famous French actress Catherine Denev. Such a decision was made on Wednesday by the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale, within which the festival is held. According to RIA Novosti , Denev was nominated by the director of the festival Marco Müller.

The World Bank decided to give Russia $ 50 million for the so -called registration project. We are talking about the modernization of the state registration system of rights to real estate. The money will be very useful - the other day, Russian lawmakers simplified this procedure.

On the set of the program "Big Races" Andrei Malakhov raised a frantic bull to the horns. As a result, from the filming, the TV presenter returned with injuries of the leg and face. The filming of the program took place on the azure bank of France, in San Trope. Among the most dangerous contests that players need to go, is a battle with a bull. Malakhov was a reserve, but when the main player could not participate in the competition, he had to enter the arena.

An increase in the social obligations of the state will inevitably lead to an economic crisis in the country. This opinion was expressed by analysts of the Center for the Development of the Information Society (Rio Center) in the framework of the preparation of one of the scenarios of the country's socio-economic development for the period from 2008 to 2016, the newspaper Gzt.ru writes on Thursday.

On Thursday, the Moscow City Court recognized the refusal to register the National-Bolshevik party (NBP) legitimate, Vitaly Varivoda, lawyer of Limonovtsev, said. Thus, the court rejected the cassation appeal of the NBP. The court read out only the resolution of the decision, so the motives for making such a decision are not yet known, RIA Novosti notes.

In Belgium, the royal school of lyceum in the city of Pyuva in the south of the country, where two armed criminals took place in Belgium. According to local media, the special operation took place without a single shot. The police special forces, who burst into the building of the educational institution, did not find criminals there. The criminals managed to leave the school, despite the perimeter of security introduced around it.

A single body overseeing banks, insurance companies and the stock market and regulating their activities is becoming more and more real. A year later, the FSFR must present his concept to the Prime Minister. It seems to the experts that a megaregulator is a premature idea. A single body overseeing banks, insurance companies and the stock market and regulating their activities is becoming more and more real.

The most difficult operation to separate the Siamese twins was carried out by the doctors of the children's hospital in Los Angeles. The operation was started on Wednesday and lasts a day. By 9 am Moscow time, doctors managed to divide the twins, but the operation is still ongoing. Conducts a "operating marathon" a team of 80 people.