The retired US Army General Antonio Taguba, who in 2004, headed the investigation of the humiliation and torture of Abu Graib in Iraqi prison, accused the highest military command of an interview with the New Yorker magazine of not objecting to such a treatment with the prisoners. General Tagube claimed that, having appeared in the Pentagon with his report, he met a very cold reception from the senior military command. “I thought they wanted to know what happened,” Taguba recalled.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress at a meeting on Monday evening by the vast majority of votes adopted a resolution in which alarms were expressed in connection with the "murders of dozens of independent journalists in Russia", and also contains "a call to Russian President Vladimir Putin to allow cooperation with foreign investigators in the disclosure of these murders." 388 congressmen voted for the resolution, and one congressman-republican opposed.

Until 2009, the floating theatrical and concert complex "Fools Ship" will appear in Moscow. It will be built for various show of the International Theater and Cultural Center of the famous Russian clown Vyacheslav Polunin, a source in the city administration said on Tuesday Interfax. The corresponding order was signed by the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov. The floating theater will appear on a converted passenger ship.

In two schools in Mumbai, the financial capital of India, they banned a public manifestation of tender feelings among students, warning that violators will be subjected to strict disciplinary sanction up to deductions. In the list of prohibitions - hugs, kisses and even quite innocent walks by the handle in the school yard, ITAR -TASS reports.

In the United States, journalists and part of the White House residence were evacuated. Such measures were taken due to the fact that a suspicious minibus of gray color was found near the residence of the President of the United States, which was made by the Presidential Protection Dog on explosives, Foxnews television company reports. According to the television company, at the time of the incident, George Bush remained in the White House.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko will not sign a single law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada after June 2. This was announced on Tuesday by the head of the secretariat of the head of state Viktor Baloga. According to him, the secretariat did not adopt a single law adopted by parliament after June 2. "All documents of legislative content are returned to Rada automatically, without consideration, ITAR -TASS reports.

The Chita lawyers of the ex-head of the Yukos NK Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of the MEL MENATEP Platon Lebedev believe that the investigative actions in their case will not be carried out in Chita. On the eve of the Presidium of the Moscow City Court confirmed the illegality of the investigation in the criminal case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in Chita.

In the bank of the suburbs of Paris, Renzhi (Department of Val de Marn), two criminals took six people hostage. After several hours of confrontation, the hostages were released, one of the raiders was captured. According to the French police, two raiders burst into Tuesday morning at the Credit Lyonnais Branch in Renzhi and captured its employees. One of the hostages managed to flee and warn the police.

The head of the International Committee of the US Congress, 79-year-old Tom Lantos, again made a sharp criticism of the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He compared the Russian leader with a nearby sailor from the famous cartoon, and Putin’s statements about overcoming missiles to Europe called "exclusively stupid." The American congressman gave an interview to Reuters on the eve of a visit to the United States by a delegation of the Russian State Duma, writes The New Zland Herald .

Oleg Safonov, Chairman of the Board of the RTS Stock Exchange OJSC, intends to leave his post on July 25, 2007. He announced this on June 19. According to him, the Board of Directors of the RTS Stock Exchange OJSC at a meeting in absentia form, which will begin today and end in a few days, will consider the convocation of the extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the exchange to elect the new chairman of the RTS OJSC. The meeting will be held at the end of July 2007.

Doctors included addiction to video games in the list of officially diagnosed mental disorders. Previously, it was interpreted by doctors as one of the forms of excitement. According to experts of the American Medical Association, the danger of becoming dependent threatens everyone who spends more than two hours a day behind video games. The same applies to those who are sitting on the Internet on the Internet.

The new world record for Russian painting is set at the Christie's Auction, which takes place in London. At the evening auction "Impressionist and Modern Sale" last Monday for an unprecedentedly high for Russian painting, the painting "Collection of apples" of the artist Natalia Goncharova was sold. The picture left the hammer for 4.948 million pounds, or almost 10 million dollars.

Former President of the Publishing House Rodionov Alexei Volin will become the general director of the company "Amedia". "The corresponding proposal was made to me, it was accepted, but the appointment itself will occur in July, when a meeting of the board of directors will be held," Volin said on Tuesday Interfax. At the same time, he noted that now in daily mode is communicating with the current general director of the company, who introduces him to the course of business.

Russia opposes the extension of the activities of the International Tribunal in the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) and expects that it will complete the work by 2010. "The absence of some defendants at the disposal of the tribunal cannot be considered as an excuse for unlimited extension of his activities," Vitaly Churkin said to the UN Security Council, Interfax reports.

The American shuttle of Atlantis was sold out on Tuesday from the International Space Station (ISS). This operation was performed, as planned, at 10:42 on the time of the east coast of the United States (18:42 in Moscow), ITAR-TASS reports. After the shuttle of the "Chelnok", the ISS flew to fix the new configuration of the station. The photographs taken by astronauts will be transferred to NASA engineers for processing.