On the night of Saturday, the tunnel on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow near the Sokol metro station was completely closed for the movement of transport in connection with the construction of the interchange at the intersection of the Leningrad and Volokolamsk highway and the reconstruction of the tunnel itself.

As part of the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, decisions to increase the contingent of Georgian troops in Iraq to 2 thousand people from July 20 to 22 to Kuwait will be sent to Kuwait, the Georgian Ministry of Defense of the Ministry of Defense will be sent to Kuwait. According to the press service of the defense department, on July 23, Georgian military personnel will go to a permanent place to a military base in Al-Kut on July 23.

Almost the entire population of the city of Ramalllah, located on the western bank of the Jordan River, gathered on Friday on the central square next to the residence of the head of the Palestinian National Administration (PNA) of Mahmoud Abbas. There were buses allocated by Israel with 255 prisoners released by decision of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a gesture of goodwill and in support of the Abbas.

The former director of the National Security Safety of the NKR Bako Sahakyan, who passed last Thursday in the Nagorno -Karabakh election of the president of the unrecognized republic, is the leader of the National Security Service of the NKR Bako Sahakyan. According to the press center of the CEC of Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday, the processing of ballots was almost completed.

At the Krasnoyarsk airport "Emelyanovo", an emergency landing was made by the passenger aircraft Tu-154 of the airline OJSC Krasaire, which made flight number 645 "Krasnoyarsk-Sochi". On board there are 10 crew members and 126 passengers, including 29 children. None of them were injured. According to Interfax, the deputy head of the information department of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies Viktor Beltsov, the plane flew from Krasnoyarsk at 11:03 Moscow time.

Despite the Russian-British diplomatic conflict , the tours of the Bolshoi Theater ballet in England should take place according to plan. According to the Director General of the theater Anatoly Iksanov, visas to artists are issued in normal mode, most of the baggage has already been sent to London, and on July 29 the main part of the large ballet team will fly there. "On July 30, we will already give the first performance in the London" Coliseum, "he said.

The movement of trains on the Serpukhov-Timiryazevskaya line of the Moscow metro on Friday evening was interrupted for 40 minutes. At 20:20, a man died at the Tsvetnoy Boulevard station under the train. An elderly man rushed under the train from the center from the center. The driver applied emergency braking, but this did not help. “He died from the received injuries to the arrival of doctors.

The United States does not exclude the possibility of conducting anti -terrorism operations in Pakistan. This was reported on Friday by the Pakistani media, citing a statement by the press secretary of the White House Tony Snow.

In Moscow, a murder was committed in the Southern Administrative District. As Interfax was informed in the press service of the metropolitan prosecutor’s office, the deceased is Anatoly Levin, a deputy of the State Council of Chuvashia. The murder was committed at about 18:30 near the house number 26 on the Boulevard maple and, judging by its execution, is of custom -made nature.

The Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox churches solemnly proclaimed the unity of faith, fidelity to the general testimony and willingness to deepen and expand cooperation, the Message of the Secretary of the World Council of the Churches of Samuel Kobia, the patriarch of the throne of St. Marca Shenue III and the Patriarch of Ethiopian Abune Paul Paulu, said.

Syria's strategic partnership with Iran "casts doubt on all the peaceful intentions of Damascus." This was announced on Friday by the official representative of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Mark Regev, commenting on the results of the visit of the President of the Islamic Republic of Mahmad Ahmadi Nezhad to Syria.

US President George Bush has prepared a legal framework for the introduction of a state of emergency in the country and a year later the United States can become a "dictatorial police state", which is at war with Iran. The former deputy Minister of Finance of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan, Republican Paul Craig Roberts made a public warning about this. At the same time, Roberts said that the only “deterrer” in this case could be the American military.

In Afghanistan, on Thursday evening, in the province of Gazel, 100 km south of Kabul were captured hostages of 18 South Korean citizens. Responsibility for the abduction was taken by the local Taliban movement cell. This was stated by its head Mohammad Sharif, reports ITAR-TASS. South Korean Christians-volunteers traveled by car when they were stopped by armed people. The attack occurred in the province of Gazel. Koreans - 15 men and three women - were traveling from Kandahar to Kabul.

Japanese automotive group Toyota Motor Co. She announced on Friday that according to the results of the first half of 2007, she kept first place in the world in terms of sales of cars. From January to June, Toyota sold almost 4.72 million cars. In second place in terms of sales, for six months, its main competitor again turned out to be the American company General Motors, which for the same period has implemented 4.67 million of its cars, ITAR -TASS reports.

The daughter of the captain of the Soviet Army Sysoev, who died in 1944 during the liberation of Estonia, filed a lawsuit against the Kharya County Court of the Estonian state and the historian of Peep Kaazik for slander for their father, ITAR-TASS reports. In the historical certificate, which was made by the Caazic for the Estonian Foreign Ministry, it is argued that Sysoev did not die in battle, but was shot for looting.