Jordan, following Saudi Arabia, rejected the US call to improve relations with Israel in order to contribute to the restart of peace negotiations in the Middle East.

The Government Commission on Administrative Reform under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin approved the idea of ​​creating a federal state unitary enterprise under the Federal Migration Service, which will provide paid services for the urgent paperwork, the newspaper Vedomosti writes with reference to the commission member.

The Khoroshevsky court of Moscow postponed until August 26 a criminal case against Dmitry Kopylov, accused of trying to bribe the leadership of Novaya Gazeta. The court made such a decision due to the fact that Kopylov is on sick leave. Kopylov was ready to participate in the hearings, but the state prosecution made an initiative to transfer the meeting, citing a sick leave, on which the accused is in a temporarily disabled state. Kopylov is accused under Art.

In mid -August, the mission of the International Monetary Fund will pay a visit to Belarus. As a result of negotiations with her, Minsk expects to receive a third tranche of a loan worth about $ 679 million, said the first deputy chairman of the National Bank Pavel Kallaur. The IMF collaborates with Belarus, affected by the economic crisis under the Stand-by-by-Ben-Benza Program, Reuters reports.

A scandal erupted in Germany: as the German weekly Der Spiegel , Cologne Pax-Bank invested in the shares of the military-industrial complex, tobacco concerns, as well as pharmaceuticals that produce contraceptives. The mentioned companies are public and have many investors, but Pax-Bank clearly violated the canons of Christian morality. Created by Catholic monks back in 1917, today this bank is the oldest church financial institution in Germany, writes News Time .

In Russia, the number of accidents involving buses is reduced, but their number is still unacceptably high. In this regard, the Department of Road Safety (DobDD) of Russia is offering to tighten control over bus drivers. According to the department, most of these traffic accidents occur due to the fault of bus drivers who grossly violate the rules of the road.

Ayman Az-Zavakhiri, the second person at Al-Qaeda, invited US President Barack Obama Moth in exchange for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and from the Muslim countries of the Middle East. In the new one and a half hour video, he noted that America lost the war with terror, and therefore Obama is trying to talk about rapprochement with Muslims. In the video message, AZ-Zadaakhiri criticized speech , made by the American leader in Cairo in early June.

Apple is quite peculiarly trying to hush up the scandal around the tanned iPhone smartphone, reports infpx.ru with reference to The Times. In order to get money for the exploded Apple IPOD, 11 -year -old British and her father, it was proposed to sign papers about non -disclosure of secrets. The girl’s father patiently went through all instances and even talked on the phone with the director of the local branch of the company.

The chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko sent a letter to the regions, in which he recommends to refrain from trips to China, in one of the provinces of which 3 lethal cases were registered, Rospotrebnadzor reports on Tuesday.

On Tuesday morning, former US President Bill Clinton arrived in North Korea. According to sources, there he will negotiate two American journalists arrested on the border and convicted for 12 years of hard labor. At the Pyongyansky airport "Sunan" Clinton, among others, was met by the former head of the Foreign Ministry, the head of the North Korean delegation in six -way negotiations in Kim Ki Gwan. The little girl handed Clinton a bouquet of flowers.

Consumer -operation (Centersoe) revives the chain of stores in the village. The pilot region for the program was chosen by the Ulyanovsk region, where by October 16 stores under the brand coop will open. Then this experience can be postponed throughout the country, writes Bfm.ru business portal. The project of the Ulyanovsk region, the Central Union (successor of Soviet consumeriac) and the Ulyanovsk Union of Consumer Societies participate in the project.

At dawn on Tuesday, seven reactive shells fell into various areas of the Afghan capital, two people were injured, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Kabul police. The missiles fell in the areas of Charrahi Tabilkhan, Vazir Akbarkhan, as well as in the third microdistrict of the city. According to the head of the criminal police, Kabul Said Abdul Guffara, two people were injured when one of the RSCs got into a residential building.

The Russian stock market markedly sagged at the beginning of trading on Tuesday, but by the end of the day he was able to go out “in plus” and overcome the mark of 1100 points along the MICEX index, Interfax reports. The closure of bidding at the MICEX took place at 1102.1 points along the main indicator of the exchange, which is 0.29% higher than Monday closure. At the same time, the RTS index increased by 0.61% of the day to 1074.49 points.

On the eve of the birthday of Barack Obama all over Los Angeles, unknown people hung posters, on which the US president is depicted in the image of a villain Joker from the film "The Dark Knight" about Batman. Under the "portrait" it is written: "socialism". According to Associated Content , this poster can soon turn into a symbol of discontent with Obama politics, whose popularity has recently been rapidly declining .

Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov proposed introducing the death penalty in Russia for the spread of drugs. In his opinion, this crime belongs to the category of mass killings, and a “democratic” approach to people committing them is inappropriate. With his initiative, Luzhkov spoke on Tuesday at a meeting of the metropolitan government, where the concept of the city program for improving narcological care was considered, ITAR-TASS reports.