The British authorities do not plan to provide immunity from judicial persecution to the former Foreign Minister Libya Musa Kusa. This was announced today by the head of the British Foreign Ministry William Hage in an interview with the British Air Force Corporation. “There will be no immunity (from possible judicial persecution), but he (Kusa) did not ask for this,” Hage said.

The Kremlin was perplexed with bewilderment, the proposal of the speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov regarding the presumption of innocence against officials, Interfax reports. "It is surprising that the head of the upper house of the Legislative Assembly offers measures that obviously contradicts the 49th article of the Constitution," a senior Kremlin source told reporters on Sunday, commenting on the initiative of the speaker of the Federation Council.

At the Fukushima-1 emergency nuclear power plant, the bodies of two station employees were found today, which were listed missing after a destructive earthquake on March 11. This was reported by the operator of the Tepco NPP. The bodies of the dead were found in the underground premises of the station among the wreckage. The nuclear power plant was seriously damaged from underground shocks and the waves of the tsunami, the height of which in this area exceeded 10 meters, reports ITAR-TASS.

Events in Libya are still the main theme of the news releases of the world media, including Arabic ones. Over the past day, positional battles for a number of cities, which have repeatedly passed from hand to hand, have been fought in Jamahiria, ITAR-TASS reports. The Al-Jazeera television channel said, in particular, that the rebels again almost took possession of the city of Mars-El-Bregin south of Benghazi. Stubborn battles again followed Misurat in the west of Libya.

In the south-west of Moscow, a 38-year-old man attacked a Muscovite and beat the patrol, a source in law enforcement agencies on Sunday told Interfax . "On Saturday, late in the entrance of one of the houses on Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya Street, an unknown person attacked a Muscovite who was returning home. He knocked him on the floor, beat him with his hands and feet, and tried to take away his wallet and hours.

In the 31st round of the Italian championship, Milan sent three unrequited goals on Inter's goal and significantly increased his chances of Skudetto. Aleshandre Pato became the author of the double, and Antonio Cassano put the victorious point from the penalty. After this meeting, Milan had 65 points, he strengthened his leadership in the standings. Inter, which is second, had 60 points left. Thus, “Milan” becomes a favorite in the race for the championship, which the last time he won in 2004.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova could not on the third attempt to win her first title in Miami. In the decisive match, the ex-first racket of the world lost to Belarusian Victoria Azarenko with a score of 1: 6, 4: 6. “I inflated the pace of the game too late,” said Maria after the defeat. “By that time, I had already lost the set and lost in the second 0: 4.

The troops of the Libyan leader of Muammar Gaddafi on Sunday are fighting for the city of Zintan in the north of Libya, which holds the forces of the rebels, reports Reuters. "Gaddafi tank brigades fired at the northern part of Zintan on Sunday. They besieged the city," Reuters quoted the words of a local resident named Abdulrahman.

The lawyer of the second president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma Igor Fomin believes that the initiation of a criminal case against his client is connected with politics. “This criminal case was opened against a person who was the President of Ukraine for ten years, he was ten years in Ukraine for ten years, of course, this case carries a political component,” Fomin said on Sunday an interview with the Ukrainian channel.

US President Barack Obama called "outrageous" murders in Afghanistan, provoked by the public burning of the Qur'an by the American pastor Terry Jones, Reuters reported with reference to the official statement of the White House. "Abuse of any sacred text, including the Qur'an, is an act of extreme intolerance and fanaticism.

The army of Egypt denied information about the departure of the former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak in Germany. According to representatives of the Country of the High Council of the Armed Forces, the former head of the state did not leave the country. Earlier today, the Al-Jazeera TV channel, citing its own sources, said that Mubarak had left the residence in Sharm Abshekh and flew to Germany.

The American pastor Terry Jones, who burned the Qur'an in one of the churches of Florida, provoking the riots in the Afghan Kandahar, is preparing a new provocation. The priest is going to arrange a protest against Islam with the largest mosque in the United States. The demonstration is scheduled for April 22 at the American Islamic Center in Dirborn (Michigan), Sky News reports. According to Jones, the purpose of this action is to warn about the radical elements of Islam.

In Moscow, on suspicion of receiving a bribe, the head of the Orekhovo-Borisovo district, South Police Colonel Andrei Alashinov and his deputy police lieutenant colonel Vitaly Meshkov, were detained. According to Interfax, the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Moscow South Service of Assembly, Major General of the police, Alexander Podolonny, the detention operation was carried out last Thursday by employees of the district’s own security department.

The first racket of the world, the Danish woman, Karolin Voznyatski, refused the proposal to star in the famous men's magazine Playboy, Tennis.com reports. “I'm not going to take off absolutely all the clothes,” said the Danish tennis player, commenting on this proposal. Also, the tennis player agent John Tobias also spoke out on this occasion: "She is only 20 years old.

On Sunday, the police opened fire to defeat the crowd storming the building of the UN representative office in the Afghan city of Kandar, RIA Novosti was told by the phone of eyewitnesses of what was happening. “Fire is conducted from a machine gun, a lot of victims,” said one of the interlocutors of the agency. The police previously reported that in Kandahar, an attempt to attack the UN office was prevented, nine attackers were killed.