The elected president of South Korea is ready to meet with the DPRK head Kim Jong Ir at any time if such an intercorean summit helps to eliminate the programs for the creation of nuclear weapons by Pyongyan. Whether Men Buck announced this at a press conference in Seoul. “The leaders of the two Kores can meet at any time if such negotiations are beneficial in the denuclearization of the North. However, the next summit should take place in Seoul,” Lee Men Buck emphasized.

A special group investing in bribery and bribery, searched on January 14 the house and personal office of the head of the South Korean Corporation Samsung Lee Kan-hee. The searches were also subjected to other large managers of the company. The prosecutor's office took from everyone a recognizance not to leave.

According to the latest data, the number of those killed with a terrorist attack in the largest Pakistani city of Karachi in the south of the country increased to 12 people, more than 60 were injured, local private television channels report with reference to sources in the city’s hospitals. At the same time, the authorities so far talk about 10 dead and about 40 wounded. According to local media, there are children among the dead and victims.

The African Republic of Malawi breaks the diplomatic relations with Taiwan and officially establishes them with the People’s Republic of China, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to a senior source in the Malawian government. Thus, the number of countries recognizing the sovereignty of Taiwan island decreased to 23. As the local seal previously reported, Malawi sent two ministers to Beijing to conduct the appropriate negotiations.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, one of the first to congratulate Mikhail Saakashvili on the victory in the presidential election of Georgia, refused to invite the inauguration of the head of the Georgian state, RIA Novosti said with reference to the press service of the President of Azerbaijan. From Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Arthur Rasizade will take part in the ceremony. The reasons for this decision are not reported.

Amendments to the law "On narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances" introduced by the Astrakhan Regional Duma were transferred to the State Duma Committee on Health. The authors of the bill proposed allowed to hospitalize and isolate chronic alcoholics and drug addicts without a court decision, their consent and without the permission of their legal representatives. The only basis for forced treatment will be a systematic violation of public order, ”writes the newspaper New Izvestia .

In the capital of Dagestan on Monday morning, a special operation ended, lasting more than 10 hours in one of the residential buildings on Engels Street. According to a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, as a result of the special operation, at least three militants were killed. "At approximately 9:20, the special forces entered the apartment. Three corpses of militants have already been found.

In the residential building of Novokuybyshevsk, the Samara region, an explosion of domestic gas occurred. According to the latest data, one person died, another seven were injured. Rescuers work on the spot. According to the initial version, in the apartment N13, where an explosion occurred, construction work was carried out. One deceased was found in the house, said the head of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies Peter Fomin.

After a long break, the world-famous film actor and theater Jean-Paul Belmondo again appeared before the movie camera. His next role is an elderly and lone professor in the Rome of the film Wittorio de Sica of the 50s "Man and his Dog", ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the French media. Belmondo, who in 2001, had a stroke , immobilized the right half of his body, said in connection with the filming that began: "I want to star as it really is.

About 500 people remained in the village of Antal in the north of the Irkutsk region as a result of an accident in the boiler room without heat. The accident occurred the night before - the water valves and the pump of a local boiler room, which serves a microdistrict of 20 residential buildings, failed.

Member of the Political Council of the "Young Guard" - the Youth Movement of the United Russia party (Mger) - Alexei Radov wrote a statement about the exit from the movement and called on other young guards to follow his example, reports "New Region" .

About three hundred volumes with statements from the residents of Ingushetia were delivered to Moscow, who, as part of the "I did not vote," confirmed that they did not participate in the parliamentary elections on December 2, 2007. Recall that the organizers of this action through the Prosecutor General’s Office strive to prove that not 98% of voters came to the elections, as they say in the local election commission.

RF President Vladimir Putin at a working meeting with Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika last Friday supported the reforms prepared at the initiative of the Prosecutor General, according to which about 60% of the criminal cases investigated by the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation should go into the investigation of the inquiry bodies supervised by the prosecutor's office.

One of the measures to combat Brazilian drug mafia? Sell ​​their luxurious possessions in parts, crushing them as smaller as possible. If the buyer is not located, the object is put up for sale for 60% of the amount. According to Prian.ru with reference to The Guardian, the purpose of such sales? Destroy the possessions of drug lords and deprive the drug cartel with additional financial support, which they receive from real estate.

In Togliatti and near St. Petersburg, two killings occurred in which citizens of Kyrgyzstan died. Three young people, including a 1991 minor. Birth, were detained in Togliatti on suspicion of committing a deliberate murder of a migrant worker from Kyrgyzstan. As the investigation established, on January 9, in the premises of an unregistered metal reception in the Avtozavodsky district of Togliatti, a man of a man with a cutting neck was discovered.