The head of the Palestinian government Ismail Khania and PNU chairman Mahmoud Abbas held negotiations on Friday morning, on which it was decided to put an end to the armed confrontation in Gaza. According to CNN, Khania said at a press conference that both leaders sharply condemn the new round of violence in PNA. Abbas was not present at this press conference.

In another London restaurant, traces of Poloniy-210 were found, which was previously discovered in the body of the ex-officer of the FSB of the Russian Federation, deceased on November 23, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko. This is stated in the Treatment Agency for Health of Great Britain, widespread on Friday.

Russian biathlonists Ivan Cherezov, Maxim Chudov, Dmitry Yaroshenko and Nikolai Kruglov became winners in the 4x7.5 km relay race as part of the fourth stage of the Biathlon World Cup in German Oberhof. The domestic quartet showed the result 1: 09/26/18 (0 penalties + 8 additional cartridges). In second place is the German national team (+41.8, 0+12), third - Norwegians (+2.45.2, 4+15).

The Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation assumes the likelihood that fragments of the Soyuz launch vehicle could fall on the territory of the American state of Wyoming, but believes that in any case the situation "was given unnecessary information noise." The corresponding statement on the broadcast "Vesti" was made by the official representative of Roscosmos Igor Panarin, ITAR-TASS reports.

US Energy Minister Samuel Bodman resigned the head of the National Nuclear Security Directorate of Linton Brooks. The reason for this decision was a number of security disorders at the nuclear facilities of the United States, in particular, in the National Laboratory in Los Alamos (New Mexico). According to ITAR-TASS, the words of Bodman, “the solution to these problems was delayed indefinitely,” therefore, “he decided to“ find a new chapter for the National Nuclear Security Directorate.

Rescuers working at the site of the attack at the Barahas Madrid International Airport found the body of the second man who was missing after the explosion last Saturday, ITAR-TASS reports. Like the first deceased, whose body was discovered on January 3, previously considered missing, the man was a citizen of Ecuador. Rescuers established the whereabouts of his body thanks to special equipment and cameras, which filmed under the wreckage of the hand and forearm of the deceased.

The symbolic funeral of executed on the morning of December 30, 2006 in Baghdad, former President Iraq Saddam Hussein will be held today in the Muslim part of the Lebanese capital. The procession will begin in the quarter of Tarik-El-Jedida, where the Arab University of Beirut named after Gamal Abdel Naser is located-the stronghold of national-progressive forces and levoradic parties, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Rostov-on-Don in a hypermarket in a warehouse for storing pyrotechnics, firecrackers exploded, the press secretary of the fire service department Natalia Vlasenko told RIA Novosti . According to the department, there are no victims. All people were evacuated. "In a special warehouse for storing pyrotechnic funds, an employee of the hypermarket collected unrealized pyrotechnics for delivery to suppliers. The self -work of two firecrackers occurred," said Vlasenko.

In Moscow, the driver made a large accident, shot down an traffic police officer who used the weapon during the detention of the offender, and disappeared. At about 17:15 on Friday at the Veshnyakovsky Estekad, which is located in the Novogireevo metro area, the Mitsubishi car made an accident with five cars. At the scene at that moment there was an employee of the traffic police. He tried to stop the culprit of the accident, but the driver of a foreign car, trying to hide, knocked him down.

The Russian national tennis team, as part of Dmitry Tursunov and Nadezhda Petrova, for the first time in history, won the traditional New Year's draw of the Hopman Cup, which took place in the early days of January of the Australian Perty. The prize fund of the tournament is 1 million dollars. In the decisive match of the competition, Russians defeated tennis players from Spain.

The new head of the US National Intelligence, instead of John Negropent , will be a retired admiral Mike McConnell. This appointment was announced on Friday by US President George Bush. Bush, announcing his decision, said that "Mike has experience, intelligence and character" in order to coordinate the activities of 16 intelligence agencies of the country. Before his appointment, the retired admiral worked in US intelligence for about 25 years.

UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon asked more than 30 high -ranking officials of the organization to resign so that he could quickly take control of the most bureaucratic organization in the world, Reuters reports. The letters were sent to all officials at the level of the Secretary General, they were invited to voluntarily resign. Most of these officials work under contracts, which are in their advantage, expire at the end of February.

When trying to attack the military unit unknown on the checkpoint near Vladikavkaz, one officer was injured, one of the attackers was detained. According to Interfax, the attack on the attack came from a representative of the military unit. According to the source, "at about 16 hours Moscow time, 15 km from Vladikavkaz in the vicinity of the village of Alkhan-Chirt, unknown people drove up on the Volga passenger car to the checkpoint of the military unit.

The head coach of the Moscow football club "Torpedo" was the ex -mentor of Spartak and the Russian national team George Yartsev, and the president is the former general director of the RFU Alexander Tukmanov. This newspaper Sport-Express said the chairman of the board of directors of the club Vladimir Aleshin. Now the former general director Yuri Mishin has been approved by the position of chief of the team. His chair was occupied by the former deputy Tukmanov in the RFU Viktor Gruzdev.

The Federal Penitentiary Service refutes information about the death of Nurpashi Kulaev , sentenced to life imprisonment for taking hostages in the Beslan school. “Kulaev is alive and well,” the representative of the press service of the FSIN told RIA Novosti . According to him, at the moment, Kulaev is in the investigative insulator and is not yet referred to serving a sentence in a colony for life prisoners.