The details of the murder of a 25-year-old French journalist Greguar de Burg in the Kazakhstan city of Almaty became known. The body of a 25-year-old journalist with stab wounds was discovered last Wednesday in one of the apartments of a residential building in Alma-Ata. Greguar de Burg was killed with particular cruelty. This was announced on Friday by the Kazakhstan Fund for the Protection of Freedom of Word "Adil SOZ" .

The State Department of the United States announced on August 4 on the introduction of sanctions against seven foreign companies that he accused of violating the American law prohibiting cooperation with Iran in the development of weapons of mass destruction. Among them are two Russian companies - FSUE Rosoboronexport and Sukhoi Corporation.

Israeli fighters were inflicted at night and on Friday in the morning one after another air strikes on Beirut. The Lebanese capital has not yet been subjected to such a massive bombardment in 24 days of conflict. The raid was a response to the massive Hizballah missile blow to the north of Israel on Thursday, during which eight civilians died and about 60 were injured.

Russian Marat Safin entered the quarterfinals of the Washington Classic tennis tournament in the American capital, whose prize fund is 600 thousand dollars. In the third circle, Marat on two Tai-Breaks broke the resistance of the best US tennis player James Black, sown in this tournament under the first number. The match ended with a score of 7: 6 (8: 6), 7: 6 (7: 5) in favor of the Russian. “Victories over such rivals give me confidence,” Safin admitted after the match.

At a trolleybus stop near the building of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Smolenskaya Square in Moscow at Friday at about 14:00 a suspicious box was discovered. The place around the stop was cordoned off by police officers who checked the box for the presence of an explosive device. However, as Interfax was told in the management of information and public relations of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, no explosives were found in the suspicious box.

The British Air Force Corporation was called upon to cancel the "unhealthy" comedy program, which contains parody news about the attempt on Tony Blair and the video in the September 11 style, where terrorists send the plane to the English parliament building. According to the Daily Mail , these shots are included in one of the series Time Trumpet, a new show on the BBC-2.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair postponed his vacation for some time to participate in the preparation of the UN Security Council resolution on Livan. Blair planned to fly to the Caribbean island of Barbados on Friday, where his family was already resting. On vacation, the prime minister intended to be three weeks, RIA Novosti reports.

The rating of President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin after a long decline reached a record for this year. 51% of those who answered, that is, more than half, are ready to lower the ballots with the name of Vladimir Putin into the election urns, if the elections took place on the next Sunday, the data of a sociological study conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation say.

The American Olympic Committee actually forbade the mentor of Justin Gatlin Trevor Graham to work in the United States. This decision was made when it became clear that the coach was associated with too much athletes convicted of doping, reports Eurosport . The world champion Gatlin and his coach were drawn into a doping scandal, when the analysis of the runner taken after the race in Kansas City on April 22 revealed the increased content of testosterone in his blood.

The Ministry of Transport, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, introduced amendments to the State Duma to the legislation, which will allow to fine motorists who violate the rules of the road without drawing up an appropriate act at the scene. This was told by the head of the Ministry of Transport Igor Levitin on Friday at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The mayor of Vorkuta, where in the days of the Gulag Joseph Stalin there were notorious camps, plans to take foreign tourists from $ 150 per day for "rest" in a skillful imitation of Soviet places of imprisonment. About this with reference to "New Izvestia" writes on Friday the British newspaper Independent (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

The 27-year-old Saad Ben Laden, the son of Al-Qaeda, has arrived in Lebanon to organize a network of terrorist cells who will assist the Hizballah militants in the war against the Jewish state, writes La Stampa .

Two explosions thundered almost simultaneously on Friday in the resort of the Mediterranean city of Adan in southern Turkey. As a result of the incident, according to updated data, 17 people were injured in varying severity. According to CNN Turk, one explosion occurred next to the local bank, the other about about 10 minutes after 30 meters from the bank near a small restaurant. Among the seriously wounded are 8 police officers who arrived at the place of the first explosion.

Russian representatives of traditional religions announced the need to consolidate efforts in the field of information security in the coverage of religious issues in the media, Interfax reports. “The information is a powerful tool of both protection and defeat,” the priest Vladimir Vigilyansky, head of the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate, said at a press conference in Moscow today.

In the Georgievsky district of the Stavropol Territory, a driver was detained, trying to give a bribe to the traffic police inspector for a fake thousand -ruble bill. According to RIA Novosti on Friday in the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Territory, the IL car was stopped in the village of abundance for speeding. The driver offered the inspector a bribe in the amount of 1000 rubles for non -conforming the administrative protocol.