The carnival in Rio de Janeiro almost ended in large fire today. During the parade of six sambe schools at one of the groups, the Moim and Tijuk school, an allegorical platform caught fire, ITAR-TASS reports. Part of the scenery from Papier-Masha quickly swept over with fire, a pillar of black smoke rose above the samboodom, a special building for holding a carnival with the stands on the sides, forcing tens of thousands of participants in the procession and spectators seriously.

Paris is ready to cooperate with the new Palestinian government, "if it is created on the basis of the agreements reached in Mecca." This was stated on Saturday evening Foreign Minister Philip Dust-Blazi at the end of the meeting with the head of the Palestinian National Administration, Mahmoud Abbas, ITAR-TASS reports.

Olympic champion-2006, multiple champion of Europe and the world, Russian skater Evgeny Plushenko, after a year break, decided to return to big sport. The first full -fledged training is scheduled for August. This was reported to the Sports Information Agency "All Sport" by the personal coach of the skater Alexei Mishin. “Yes, Zhenya informed me that he was going to resume active training,” Aleksey Mishin confirmed. “It was the main motivation to fight and compete. To win.

Today, US -Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice entered the correspondence polemic with President of Iran Mahmud Ahmadi, Nekhada. Iran should immediately stop the activities related to the creation of nuclear weapons, she emphasized. In his speech, Ahmadi Nezhad stated that Tehran would “not reveal” on the path of mastering the technologies of the peaceful atom. "Iran has reached nuclear fuel production technologies," said the head of the Iranian executive branch.

10 rescuers of the Kamchatka search and rescue detachment set off from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the area of ​​the volcano in the area of ​​the three missing climbers. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Kamchatka region. They have to overcome about 600 km. To the destination, it is expected to arrive by Monday in the evening.

At least 17 people were killed, another 25 were injured today as a result of a terrorist attack near the Economic College in Baghdad. According to the police, the suicide bomber has brought into effect the explosive device at the entrance to the educational institution assigned to the body. The terrorist tried to penetrate his territory, but was stopped by security. Most of the dead are students, reports ITAR -TASS.

One person died as a result of a collapse at the Dzerzhinsky mine in Prokopyevsk (Kemerovo region). As the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the region Valery Korchagin said on Sunday, at 14:45 local time all the miners that appeared during the collapse of the breed in the emergency area were taken out of the ground.

Human rights activists criticize drug control plans to treat drug addicts forced order The head of the Moscow Bureau Human Rights Watch Allison Gil doubts that it will be humane. “It is difficult to understand why this idea arose in Russia right now,” she is perplexed. “After all, in medical institutions, there is not enough space for those who want to be treated voluntarily.” The chairman of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseev agrees with her.

A faulty arrow transfer caused the collapse of the Virgin Train high-speed passenger train in the north-west of England. This conclusion was reached by British experts investigating circumstances of the accident of Express, which was in Italy, who was following from London to the Scottish city of Glasgow with 180 passengers. A 84-year-old woman died, five people were injured.

Today, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, citing official sources, reported that the Spanish government provided the famous businessman Vladimir Gusinsky Spanish citizenship, reports Newsru ISRAEL .

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Order of the Order for Merit to the Fatherland to the governor of the Oryol region Yegor Stroyev. “Thus, Yegor Semenovich is becoming the first in Russia the full gentleman of this highest state award,” the head of state emphasized, handing the governor a reward on his 70th anniversary day. Earlier, Straev was awarded the orders "For Merit to the Fatherland" III, II and I degrees, ITAR-TASS reports.

In a burning warehouse building in the northeast of Moscow, a gas cylinder exploded on the Warehouse Street, there are no information about the victims. According to the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the city of Yevgeny Bobylev, an increased rank of complexity was assigned to the fire - number two. 25 fire brigades were involved in its liquidation. "The fire occurred at about 18:00. Now the fire area is more than 800 square meters.

On Minsk Street in Moscow, there was a failure of soil with an area of ​​120 square meters. meters. As Interfax was told in the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the depth of failure was 50 cm. In turn, the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in Moscow, Yevgeny Bobylev, told Interfax that the incident occurred at 11:50 Moscow time.

The head of the British Foreign Intelligence MI5 John Scarlett warned Prince Harry, gathering in the royal hussars in Iraq, about the danger in this country. According to the Daily Express newspaper, during the reconnaissance operation it was possible to find out that Iraqi militants plan to eliminate the third in the monarch of the contender for the British throne.

The distress near the coast of Poland Norwegian cargo ship Oshan Caroline was towed by the Swedish fisherman trailer. This was reported by the media of Norway. All members of the crews, among which there are also Russian citizens, are evacuated. The incident occurred today at about 08:00 local time (10:00 Moscow time) in the Baltic Sea, 62 sea miles from the coast of Poland. Meanwhile, what happened to the ship remains unknown.