The Russian Federation will transfer a batch of wheat flour in the amount of $ 5.5 million through the UN World Food Program (WFP) to Tajikistan for free, WFP office said on Thursday in Dushanbe. A cargo of flour with a total weight of 10,500 tons will arrive in Tajikistan by train, Interfax reports.

In the American state of Missouri, a woman arranged a real pogrom in the McDonald`s fast food restaurant. The client was fury that she was refused to return the money for a hamburger, who seemed to the customer unappetizing. As a result, the lady caused the establishment of losses of tens of thousands of dollars. The emergency occurred in the city of Kansas-City, where the police are currently searching for the pogrom, the Associated Press reports.

In the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, a great Christmas evening was committed today. This solemn festive service, according to tradition, collects many Christians. Having celebrated the Christmas of Christ at night and in the morning in their temples, they come to the Cathedral of Christ in the evening to congratulate each other and the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church).

At the enterprise in the city of St. Louis (Missouri in the USA), the unknown person opened shooting. As ITAR-TASS reports, only three wounded were originally reported, then it became clear that the consequences were much more serious: three five were injured, three of them were in critical condition. The tragedy occurred in the building of the ABB industrial enterprise, which produces power plants. Early in the morning, during the road, up to 50 people were inside the production room.

More than 2.6 million Russians took part in the festive Christmas services, which passed last night throughout the country. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today in the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Services took place in 8.5 thousand Russian temples and monasteries.

A request for the arrest of a group of members of the Higher Army Command of Honduras, which carried out a military coup on June 28 last year, was presented by the Ministry of Security of this Republic. As noted in the statement of the department, it acted with the initiative to start the trial on charges of members of the military leadership of abuse of powers and the violent expulsion from the country of the legitimate President of Manuel Selya.

The court session in Dubai in the case of the murder of the former commander of the disbanded battalion Vostok, Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadayev was postponed to February 1 due to the failure to appear of the witness of the prosecution. Meanwhile, the Dubai court rejected the petition of the lawyers of the accused to secure them on bail, RIA Novosti reports. In the bench of the defendants are Tajik citizen Mahsujon Ismatov and Iranian Mahdi Lorny. The defendants do not admit their guilt.

In the near future, the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may well visit neighboring China in order to resume the "stalled" negotiations on the Nuclear Problem of the DPRK, Inopressa writes with reference to the Los Angeles Times. According to the foreign press, this is stated that the protection of the railway crossing on the border with China is strengthened from the DPRK, and the customs of the Chinese border city of Dantun is closed.

In Somalia, on Thursday, an attempt was made to attempt on the commander of the Armed Forces of the country of Mohammed Gele Kahiye. According to the official representative of the police, Abdulahi Hassan Barisa, the attack occurred in the northern district of Mogadisho, ITAR-TASS reports.

Patriarch Kirill called the crisis 2009 the most important year for the formation of national identity. He believes that the interaction of power and the people helped to overcome this difficult time. Patriarch Kirill spoke about this during the night Christmas worship in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on which the President of the country Dmitry Medvedev and his wife were present, ITAR-TASS reports.

The discovery in the mountains of Iran near the Kuma Kuma for the enrichment of Uranus poured light for the fact that over the past decade Iran hid a significant part of its nuclear complex in the network of tunnels and bunkers across the country, Inopressa.ru reports with reference to the New York Times . According to the American government and private experts, thereby Iran reached a double goal.

Residents of the Trans-Baikal military town "Steppe", evacuated in the sanatorium due to an accident at the boiler room, are not yet returned home, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the Steppe settlement Alena Mulamalametov. "The brigades repair intra -house networks, their volume of work is large. Each house has problems, including those five, which previously reported that heat supply was completely restored," Mulamulametova said.

The loud trial in the case of a riot in the Kirovgrad colony for adolescents will begin in the near future. The meeting of the regional court is scheduled for January 18. More than 40 people - pupils of the colony will sit on the bench, reports Echo of Moscow . Hearing in the sensational case of riots in the educational colony of Kirovgrad should began six months ago, but were postponed for a purely technical reason.

The parents of the Albanian Ibrahim Shkolli, who killed five in Finland on December 31 and committed suicide, asked for forgiveness for his son’s act, Interfax reports. As stated in the appeal of parents, published on Thursday in the Ilta-Sanomat newspaper, they did not expect a son to go to such a crime, shocked all Finland.

The famous politician, member of the political committee of the Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" Sergey Ivanenko was detained on Wednesday, January 6, at the Moscow Domodedovo airport, when passing passport control after he returned with an 18-year-old daughter from Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt).