A group of 12 Nobel Prize winners today called on the United States to cancel financial restrictions on the DPRK in order to get out of an impasse in deciding on the nuclear program of Pyongyan, ITAR-TASS reports. “We urge the United States to terminate financial and economic sanctions in relation to the DPRK and provide security guarantees,” the meeting of the Nobel laureates said in the final statement of the meeting.

Prince Victor Emmanuel Savoy, the son of the last Italian King Umberto P, was arrested on Friday evening by the Italian police on suspicion of belonging to a network of prostitutes. The 69-year-old prince is also suspected of corruption and connections in the Sicilian mafia, reports Italian television RAI with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies.

At the Fritz-Valter-Stadion stadium, in the framework of the second round of the group stage of the World Cup, the US and Italy team tied 1: 1. The Uruguayan referee Jorge Larriond deleted in this match from the field of three players and canceled two captures of the gate. World Cup-2006: Participants, results and schedule Italy 1: 1 USA Jilardino 22 Dzakardo 27 (AG) In case of victory, the Italians secured a place in the 1/8 finals of the World Cup.

During the naval battle, six sailors of government forces and about 30 Tamil separatists were killed near the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka. According to the representative of the country's Navy, militants from the Tamil separatist organization Tigers of the Liberation of Tamil Ilam (Toti) on 11 motor boats attacked the marine base located there. According to him, at least six such boats, in each of which there were 3-4 suicide bombers, were sunk during an intensive shootout.

United Russia sets the task to recruit the majority in the upcoming elections to regional legislative meetings, said Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party. On Saturday, he met with the deputies of the Tyumen Regional Duma, the governor of the Tyumen region and the partyatactive of the regional branch "United Russia".

The so-called Ichkeria President Abdul-Khalim Saydulaev was killed in Chechnya. This was announced on Saturday by the Minister of Government of the Chechen Republic Muslim Khuchiev on Saturday. According to him, the operation was carried out in the city of Argun.

The Czech national team, having lost in the group E Ghana’s team with a score of 0: 2, questioned her exit to the next stage of the draw. But the Africans who scored Gyan and Muntari earned a great chance to perform in the 1/8 World Cup. "Kelnestadion." Judge: Orasio Alisono (Argentina). Czech Republic 0: 2 Ghana Gyan 2 Muntari 82 Czechs, of course, were considered the favorite of the match, but Gan football players quickly question this point of view.

Many cities and states in the United States are not prepared for major disasters, the country's new report said in a new report. The document notes that Washington, which has become the object of attack on September 11, has been prepared the worst of all, reports the Air Force . Louisiana and the city of New Orleans, destroyed by a hurricane, Katrina last year, also received a low rating. Other coastal states that can withstand the blows of hurricanes are best ready for the surprises of Florida.

The Pentagon sent the body of the body of three prisoners of Guantanamo to his homeland, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the American military department. "The US Department of Defense announces that the body of three captives from the Guantanamo base (Cuba) who committed them to the homeland on June 10 were sent to their homeland. Two bodies were sent to Saudi Arabia, the body of the third to Yemen," the report said.

The organizers of the World Cup in Germany reject criticism about the "unsatisfactory state" of lawns in stadiums. World Cup-2006: Participants, results and schedule “We like our lawns that meet the standards,” said Engelbert Lemher, who is responsible for the state of lawns during the 2006 World Cup. A clear norm is approved along the length of the grass - 28 mm. At the stadiums at which the championship matches are held, the lawn is shorter by 1-2 mm.

The first step in creating security structures in Asia was named by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been undergoing a summit of the interaction and confidence measures in Asia in Alma-Ata. "The summit marks the exceptionally important process of forming the institutions of the meeting on the interaction and confidence measures in Asia, the creation of its permanent body - the secretariat," said Nazarbayev, speaking at the opening of the forum.

About 70 people protested on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on Saturday afternoon against the abolition of deferrals from drafting into the army, Interfax reports. The All -Russian protest was organized by the Republican Party of Russia (RPR) together with the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers and the ATP.

The operation to save children who were carried away to the sea on the raft is completed in Primorye. According to RIA Novosti in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia in the Primorsky Territory, on Saturday the Racord wasland, a rescue raft carried out by the Rikord island. There were five children aged 11 to 13 years on the raft. Initially, adults - the organizers of the amateur recreation camp - conducted searches on their own on boats.

Two military servicemen, who arbitrarily left the place of deployment of the military unit, were detained near the administrative border between Chechnya and the Republic of Dagestan, a source in Chechen law enforcement agencies said on Saturday by calling of Interfax. He emphasized that in the forest near the administrative border, when surveying the area, two military personnel of the military unit deployed near the Botlich district center (Dagestan) were detained.

The art history incident occurred with one of the most prestigious British galleries - the Royal Academy of Arts (Royal Academy). As an exhibit, she put up a stone block, which was crowned by a tree craft. Employees accepted this composition for a work of art. The gaze of visitors to the gallery in London was represented by a barn from a shale, on which a small wooden bone -shaped stick lay.