In Egypt, a second bus accident with Russian tourists took place in Egypt. According to preliminary information, no one died, nine people received mild wounds, Interfax told the Association of Tour operators of Russia (ATOR). "A bus with Russian tourists was heading to the Luxor. It was a tour acquired by tourists on the street," the vice -president of atore Maya Lonidze told the agency on Wednesday. According to her, there were 20 Russian tourists on the bus, of which nine people were injured.

In small Russian cities, after a large -scale investigation at the federal level of the murder, 12 people in the village of Kushchevskaya of the Krasnodar Territory and crimes ignored by the district police are increasingly emerging similar cases of "lawlessness". In some cases, the theme of Kushchevskaya cynically use in their interests various political forces to make points on the eve of the municipal elections.

The national strike takes place on Wednesday in Portugal. According to Radio "Freedom" , for the first time in 20 years, employees of both the budget sphere and the private sector have been involved in the shares. The striking achieve the abolition of government measures of rigid economy, which involve the reduction of salaries, the abolition of a number of tax benefits and social payments, as well as other unpopular measures.

The District Court of Jerusalem pronounced the verdict to the followers of the “Sadist's rabbi” Eliora Hen. David Kugman, who has to spend 20 years in prison, was sentenced to the most severe punishment. Kugman was found guilty of cruel mockery of children. Two other followers of Hen, Abraham Maskelachi and Shimon Gabay, were sentenced to imprisonment for 17 years for complicity in this crime. Another convicted person, Roi Tsurf, was sentenced to 30 months of prison.

To the two years in prison, the traffic police inspector Rostov was sentenced to try to sell a beautiful registration number for a car. The policeman promised the driver for 320 thousand rubles to set the AAA series sign on his car. But the promise did not fulfill.

In Kyrgyzstan, 17 people were sentenced to life imprisonment for murders committed during the interethnic conflict on June 12-13, 2010. Two more defendants received 25 years in prison. Such a decision was made by the court of the Suzak district of Jalal-Abad region. The court proven that the accused took part in the murders of 16 people, the news channel reports.

The conflict of shareholders of the Norilsk Nickel - Rusala Oleg Deripaska and Interros Vladimir Potanin - provoked the company's management to initiate a change in a number of Russian law norms. MMC President Andrei Klishas suggested that the Association of Russian lawyers and the National Corporate Administration develop a bill that would limit the rights of minority sorts to information about any public company, writes News Time .

The European Union first applied the concept of "occupied territories" in relation to South Ossetia and Abkhazia. As Interfax reports, this noted the Georgian Foreign Ministry, analyzing the EU statement. The document is about the need to monitor in conflict regions, protect human rights, and the regions themselves are mentioned as occupied. It was signed by 28 countries - members of the European Union, as well as seven countries that are not its members.

Rescuers working at a mine in New Zealand, in which the explosion blocked 29 miners, were able to drill a small well to the alleged location of the miners with the help of a robot, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AP. Recall that the explosion at the mine of Pike River Coal, located 50 kilometers north of the city of Greimut on the New Zealand island of Yuzhny, occurred last Friday. Underground, at a depth of about two kilometers, 29 miners remain. Two miners managed to get to the surface.

The defendant of the scandalous case of the murder of the former guard of the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, unexpectedly “lit up” in Russia thanks to the crew of the state television channel. The treated heroes, the alleged killer of the 26-year-old Umar Israilov , fell into the plot of the Russia 2 channel from Grozny, says Der Spiegel .

The Office of the President of the Russian Federation announced an open competition for the creation and supply of one Tu-214 aircraft. According to Interfax , the corresponding announcement is published on the website of the Russian Federation to post state orders. The duration of the aircraft is no later than December 31, 2013. The initial cost of the contract is not more than 1.330 billion rubles.

Lebanon demanded today from the UN Security Council to hold Israel liable for the hacking of the network of his mobile telephone communication. As ITAR-TASS reports, the Minister of Telecommunications Sharbel Nahhas stated at a press conference. According to him, the Israeli agents managed to put all telephone negotiations in a neighboring country since 2004.

The manager of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kozin filed a lawsuit in the Basmanny Court of Moscow to protect the honor, dignity and business reputation, where he asks to recover 1 million rubles from the Novaya Gazeta for the distribution of false information. “The lawsuit is filed by the New Gazeta publishing house and the author of the article to Roman Anin,” the press secretary of the court Ekaterina Korotova said on Wednesday.

Employees of the Moscow criminal investigation department neutralized a group of hijackers, which specialized in the embezzlement of luxury foreign cars. Three participants in the gang were detained with red -handed, when they took the next stolen car from the so -called sump, a source in Moore told Interfax .

The IOS 4.2.1 version released this week, the operating system, which is controlled by the iPhone smartphone and the iPad tablet computer, has become vulnerable to hacking and installing unofficial applications less than a day after the release. The release of the relevant program was announced on Tuesday by the Khaker group iPhone Dev Team, RIA Novosti reports.