The explosion that occurred on Friday at the oil refining plant in the American state Washington took the lives of five people, the AP agency reports. The explosion occurred during technical work on the territory of the Tesoro Corporation, which is located in the city of Anakors north of Seattle. After the explosion, a fire occurred on the territory of the plant, which was put out after 90 minutes, the Tesoro leadership said. On Friday, AP reported three dead and four seriously wounded.

The Pakistani Army destroyed 30 militants in an armed clash near the border with Afghanistan, reports AP on Saturday. The clash occurred in the tribal region of Orakzai in the north-west of the country and was part of the offensive operation of government forces against militants who have found refuge in the south of the country in the mountainous part of Orazai since last year. Six military personnel were killed in the battle, six militants were captured, RIA Novosti reports.

The fishing vessel, who participated in the search for sailors who disappeared after the flooding of the Corvett of the Navy of South Korea, "Chhonan", presumably sank. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Yonhap. According to representatives of the South Korean Navy, a connection with a 99-ton boat, on board of which was nine people, disappeared on Friday in the evening, after the distress signal was transmitted from it.

The international pressure that Iran experiences on itself will only increase its determination to continue moving along the path of progress, in particular, to master peaceful nuclear technologies. This was stated today by Iri President Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad, speaking in the city of Sirzhan at the opening of a large industrial facility. “Our ill -wishers do not want to see Iran economically developed and repair all kinds of obstacles on the path of its progress.

The last day is coming to the end> ​​Holy Week (weeks) - Great Saturday. The church recalls the stay in the coffin of the body of Jesus Christ, crucified and dead on the cross the day before on Friday. According to legend, on Saturday, when the students of Jesus mourned about the grief and his great loss, which had not yet appeared in the earthly world, the Savior went into hell, where waiting for his coming, the souls of all the dead, even the Old Testament righteous languished.

Konstantin Pereverzev, who attacked Lyudmila Alekseev, is expected to appear before court. The detained Konstantin Pereverzev is accused of causing beatings from hooligan motives. The softest punishment that the Criminal Code provides in this case is compulsory work for a period of 120 hours, the most tough is two years of prison. The 31-year-old bully previously tried to avoid the court.

Chelsea, having defeated the direct competitor in the dispute for the title of the champion of England, Manchester United, headed the Premier League standings. The game of the 33rd round on the field of the Old Trafford stadium ended with the victory of the team Carlo Ancelotti with a score of 2: 1.

The Russian racer "Renault" Vitaly Petrov held the best qualification in the Career of the Formula-1 pilot, taking 11th place at the Grand Prix of Malaysia. Petrov entered the second segment, showing the fourth time in the first part of the qualification. However, then the Russians failed to get into the top ten and continue the struggle for the Powl-Upers in the third segment. The rain made serious adjustments to the pilot’s struggle, which arrived at the beginning of qualifications.

The head of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, appealed to the Minister of Emergencies of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu with a request to allocate a plane for the delivery of a police officer to Moscow, who is in serious condition in Egypt due to a burns from the poisonous Medusa, RIA Novosti said on Saturday spokeswoman Zhanna Zhelimina. "Igor Kuznetsov is a policeman -driver of the Internal Affairs Directorate on the Moscow Metro.

Arsenal midfielder Andrei Arshavin, who was injured in the Champions League match against the Spanish Barcelona (2: 2), should return to the field for the game with Manchester City, which will take place on April 24, the gunner of the gunboats Arsen Wenger said. Arshavin, who damaged the calf muscle, was replaced in the 28th minute of the fight with the Bars on Wednesday.

No bill proving the displacement from the post of speaker of the Federation Council in United Russia is not being developed, says the head of the upper house, Sergei Mironov.

Today, on the Great Saturday, in the cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill, made Vespers with a reading of 15 Parimium and the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great.

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) postponed the question of changing the design of the rear-view mirrors on Formula 1 Bolides to the fifth stage of the World Cup, reports Autosport . A day earlier, the FIA ​​announced that the modification should be already carried out to the Grand Prix of China , which will be held on April 16-18, but now the teams are given more time, and the deadline is transferred to the Grand Prix of Spain, which will be held on May 7-9.

Seeing two festive services - Orthodox, and then Catholic, will see the audience of the St. Petersburg television channel "100 TV" on Easter. Teleps from the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Northern capital and the Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God (Notre Dame de Paris) are dedicated to the Year of France in Russia and Russia in France, ITAR-TASS reports.

The women's youth team of Russia became the first team in the history of domestic sports to drop out of the elite division of world hockey, the official website of the International Hockey Federation reports. At the World Cup among hockey players is no older than 18 years, which takes place in Chicago (USA), Russian girls took the last eighth place, losing on Friday peers from the Czech Republic with a score of 1: 3.