The Embassy of the United States and Great Britain in Yemen, closed within two days due to threats of terrorist attacks, resumed their work.

In Dagestan near the gate of the base of the traffic police battalion, the traffic police, located in the gearbox of the city of Makhachkala, the explosion thundered. As a result, five police officers were killed. Another 19 people, including civilians, were injured in varying severity. According to Interfax , the DPS base was attacked by a suicide bomber.

A powerful explosion thundered on Wednesday morning in a military town near the city of Ravalcot on Pakistan controlled by Pakistan, three people died, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Pakistani AAG TV channel. According to local media, the authorities find out whether a suicide bomb was an explosion or a cross-country bomb worked. The terrorist attack occurred next to army barracks and military state -seeker. Three soldiers died, more than 10 were injured.

President Barack Obama does not consider himself personally responsible for the puncture in the work of the special services and the state authority of the United States as a whole, which allowed citizen Nigeria Umaru Abdulmutlab to make a passenger aircraft of the American aircraft Northwest to Christmas (according to the Gregorian calendar). This was confirmed at a regular briefing for journalists by the press secretary of the White House Robert Gibbs.

Belarusian border guards detained two Russian citizens for trying to border the border with Poland. According to Interfax, the press service of the State Border Committee of Belarus, in the border village of Belyana of the Grodno region, border guards stopped a 20-year-old resident of the Voronezh region of Russia. As established, the offender asked the locals to the west. The offender admitted that he wanted to get to Ireland through Poland.

Elections to the Lower Chamber of the Afghan Parliament (Wolesi Dzhirga) will be held on May 22, 2010, RIA Novosti reports to the representative of the Afghan Independent Electoral Commission (centrizbirck). According to Article 33 of the Afghan Constitution, the CEC was obliged to announce the date of the election at least 140 days before the start of the will.

Strong snowfalls and frosts in Europe will not weaken in any way. In the UK, protracted snowfalls led to the closure of hundreds of schools. In Sweden last night, the thermometer column in some places dropped to minus 38.8 degrees. Significant complications of air and automobile messages, the work of educational institutions and utilities led to the first snow storm that swept through Denmark this year, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Japan, a 93-year-old resident of the city of Nagasaki died, who last year was officially recognized by the authorities the first Japanese who suffered from both American atomic bombing in August 1945. This was reported today by local media. On August sixth, 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguti was on a business trip in Hiroshima and was irradiated three kilometers from the epicenter of a nuclear explosion.

The clergy of the Efremovo deanery of the Tula diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to organize in the main church of the city dedicated to the icon of the Virgin "the penalty of the dead", the weekly duty of the clergyman. “It was decided that every Sunday day, from 12:00 to 18:00, the church priest will be on duty. The task will not include the expectation of a ruff or control of the elementary order in the parish.

Today, January 6, Western Christians are completing a stepal cycle of holy holidays. In Catholics, this is the Day of God's (in Greek-Epiphania), which is otherwise called the holiday of the "three holy kings" (the Gospel-wrestle-wrestlemen who came to bow to the baby Jesus) were sometimes called). The holiday was established in memory of the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Gospels of the Baptism of John the Baptist in the Jordan River (Matt. 3: 13-17, Mark 1: 9-11, Luke 3: 21-22).

The repentant leader of the Swedish neo -Nazi group, who ordered the theft from the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is carefully guarded, reports inopressa.ru with reference to the Italian newspaper La Stampa . The criminal is guarded from possible revenge from the members of the group, which he headed. In accordance with the practice adopted in the Swedish media, neither names nor photographs of people who face the punishment for more than two years of imprisonment are published.

Ukrainian sailors from the ship Ariana, freed from pirate captivity, returned to Ukraine. According to Interfax , a special side with 24 sailors, flying from the airport of the city of Salala (Oman), landed on Wednesday at Odessa Airport. Sailors were met by representatives of the local authorities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Presidential Secretariat. Relatives of the sailors were not allowed into the runway, so they expected those who arrived in the airport building.

That night, train passengers number 30 Kaliningrad - Moscow were evacuated due to the threat of an explosion at the Belarusian Orsha station, but information about mining was not confirmed. It took more than two hours to check the composition. As ITAR-TASS reports from the scene, the train head at 02:20 Moscow time asked for more than 500 passengers with things to leave the train. There were about ten degrees of frost outside.

The number of two American unmanned aircraft in the north-west of Pakistan on Wednesday grew up to 13 people who died as a result of an air attack, the local GEO TV channel reports with reference to sources from the scene. According to television journalists, two attacks of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) occurred in the DATT HEL area in the northern Vaziristan tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, 13 people were killed as a result of these attacks, reports.

As a result of a fire in one of the private one -story houses of the city of Zlatoust, the Chelyabinsk region on Wednesday night, seven people were killed according to the latest data, RIA Novosti reports. As the agency clarifies, the fire arose at 23:20 Moscow time on Tuesday in a private residential building with an area of ​​four per eight meters. After that, a gas cylinder exploded in the house, which caused the spread of fire.