Pyongyang accelerated the preparations for testing his new intercontinental ballistic missile and it is possible that the launch will be made in the next weekend. This was reported on Thursday in Washington on the basis of anonymity representatives of the Bush administration. According to one of them, American intelligence satellites spotted a rocket delivered on a car spacecker on a landfill on Cape Musudan in the northeast of the DPRK, ITAR-TASS reports.

Ownership of the apartment can soon become quite burdensome not only due to the fault of the planned, but has not yet received a clear legislative registration of real estate tax. The Ministry of Finance confirmed that before the entry into force of the new tax (which should combine taxes on property and land), the owners of the apartments must also pay land tax.

The EU summit decided to join Slovenia to the Euro zone. This was reported to reporters by representatives of a number of delegations of member countries. Thus, the EU Council approved the recommendations of the European Commission and the European Central Bank. However, so far there is an unknown fate of Lithuania, which the European Commission and the ECB considered the non -NECTIONAL to the introduction of the euro.

The details of the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili and the criminal biography of the Killer of the Orekhov-Medvedkov group Alexei Kuzmin, who admitted the ten loud murders, became known. It turned out that on one of the most resonant crimes of the mid -90s, the killer earned almost nothing, since he received a solid salary - the group leaders paid him 5 thousand dollars a month, the newspaper Gzt.ru writes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Friday to Kazakhstan. Putin flew to Alma-Ata from Shanghai , where he took part in the SCO summit and held a number of bilateral meetings. In Kazakhstan, Putin will take part in the work of the second summit of the meeting on the interaction and confidence measures in Asia (SVMDA), which will be held on Saturday, June 17. The program of the Russian leader is a number of bilateral meetings, the assistant to the head of state Sergei Prikhodko said.

One of the most revered shrines in the Christian world - the imperishable right hand of John the Baptist was taken to Pyatinz to Nizhny Novgorod, accompanied by representatives of the Serbian Patriarch. The shrine delivered by a flight from Cheboksary, where the plane on the way from Moscow landed from behind a thunderstorm, in Nizhny Novgorod was met by the archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas George, priests of the Nizhny Novgorod Orthodox diocese, and rectors of the monasteries.

The unique Japanese geological exploration vessel of Tiku (in Japanese “Earth”), which has to drill the earth's crust for the first time and get to the mantle, went on Friday to the port of Osaka, where it will be open to the general public in the coming weekend, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the suburbs, as a result of a traffic accident, two military military personnel were killed. According to Interfax, a source in law enforcement agencies, on Thursday in the afternoon, at the daytime, on the 130th kilometer of the Moscow-Kasimov highway, MAZ under the direction of a resident of the Ryazan region, born in 1960, shot down two pedestrians-military servicemen, 1988, from the military unit of Yegoryevsk.

A living rodent, which was considered disappeared millions of years ago, was discovered by an American researcher from the State University of Florida in the Central Laos near the border with Thailand. Although the official discovery by scientists who was considered a fossil Lao mountain rat took place in the spring, the representatives of the scientific community managed to catch and photograph a living animal only at the end of May, ITAR-TASS reports.

The candidacy of the new prosecutor general will be submitted in the near future, and the former prosecutor general Ustinov will remain in the civil service, said Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting with reporters on Thursday evening.

The leaders of the pro -presidential bloc "Our Ukraine" Yuri Yevanurov and Roman Immortal offered the two other "orange forces" in the parliament - the Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko (BUT) and the social party - to enter a wide coalition with the participation of the Party of Regions. This was announced on Friday to reporters by the leader of BYUT Yulia Tymoshenko.

Scientist Stephen Hawking, who has earned fame thanks to the popularization of theoretical physics and revolutionary theories of the appearance of the cosmos, said that humanity is a few steps from the answer to the question of who, as the main thing was why he created the Universe. Hawking, which has been completely chained to a wheelchair for many years, made a lecture at the University of Hong Kong Sciences and Technologies.

The Government of the Palestinian Autonomy, formed by the radical movement "Hamas", advocated the ceasefire with Israel. About this, as it became known on Friday, said the representative of the Cabinet of Ministers of Autonomy Gazi Hamad. “We intend to demand from our fighters to refuse the missile shelling of Israeli territory, but before the Jewish state should turn all types of military activity on the western bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip,” Hamad said.

The Tashkent City Court decided to close the representative office of the American non -governmental organization Central Asian Free Exchange (Cafe).

The October Court of Murmansk examined the lawsuit of Ayk Osepyan, who suffered from the actions of police officers, who demanded that he compensate him for moral damage for lost health and survived humiliation, estimating his claims at 5 million rubles. As Interfax was told in court, in October 2002, Osepyan was beaten by a district policeman and an employee of the patrol service, who were in a state of strong intoxication, because he stood up for a comrade-taxist.