The opening of the two-day Summit "Asia-Europe" ( asem ) in Laos was marked by a scandal. World leaders who have come to the meeting will live on Earth selected from local farmers. According to human rights activists, more than half thousand residents of the island of Don Chan had to leave their homes and move to barren lands outside the capital. Many now have to fight for survival, as the compensation from the government turned out to be too small, Echo Moscow reports.

The Italian financial guard today confiscated property for 65 million euros, owned by the Marsootto family, the owner of the empire in the field of the finished fashionable clothing of Hugo Boss and other prestigious brands. The industrial group is accused of evading a firm in Luxembourg from taxes in the amount of 200 million euros. Among the confiscated property is real estate in Rome, the cortine in northern Italy, on the island of Sardinia.

The Minister of the Government of Japan Sinji Tarutoko, who is responsible for the problem of "northern territories", as the Japanese call Russian southern Kurils, examined these islands. Tarutoko visited Cape Nosapp on Hokkaido on Sunday and first examined four islands from the shore in binoculars, Interfax reports with reference to the Japanese NHK television company. Then the minister climbed the ship and examined Kunashir and Habomai from the sea.

At least 50 soldiers of the Syrian army were killed as a result of the undermining of the car, which was the suicide of which the suicide bomber, the Syrian supervisory board of human rights based in London. According to the opposition, the incident occurred in the Syrian province of Hama, BBC reports. The Islamist group of Nusra Front took responsibility for the attack.

Russia and the League of the Arab states (LAG) agreed to create a forum of cooperation and at the first meeting to discuss the situation in Syria. The first meeting of the forum should take place before the end of 2012 in Moscow. The meeting will take place at the level of foreign ministers.

The head of the New York prosecutor's office announced the fight against speculators who inflate prices for the most necessary products after the devastating hurricane "Sandy" . First of all, this applies to gasoline prices, bottled water, food and batteries.

If you believe the American sports signs “Redskinz rule”, which has never failed her adherents over the past 72 years, then the candidate from the Republicans Mitt Romny should win the presidential election this year, reports “R-Sport” with reference to the New York Daily News newspaper. In the late evening on Sunday, the Washington Redskinz team, who ended late in the evening of Sunday, lost to the Carolina Panthers team with a crushing score of 21:13.

The day before the US presidential elections, the main rivals are the current head of the White House Democrat Barack Obama and the candidate from the Republican Party Mitt Romni - according to public opinion polls, are almost flush. Two of the five results of nationwide studies published on Sunday recorded a draw, two Obama in front of a statistically insignificant 1% votes and only in a survey of the center named after the current president of 3%.

ntv A few “Ilyich light bulbs”, a dirt road, cages and a dozen volunteers - that’s all there is. Or it was until a fire broke out here yesterday. Around midnight, the shelter caretaker woke up to the loud barking of dogs. By this time, the fire was already consuming the cages with the locked animals. The woman called the fire department and, despite the heavy fire, opened the enclosures with dogs and cats. Only thanks to this, many animals managed to escape.

The Olympic cycling champion Alexander Vinokurov from Kazakhstan was accused of buying a victory in the one-day Liezh-Baston-Laezh race from the Russian athlete Alexander Kolobnev in 2010. Then both cyclists had advantages over the finish a minute, and Vinokurov eventually went around Kolobnev by 500 meters, having won the first victory after his disqualification for doping in 2007.

Unknowns robbed a house in the village of Dmitrovskoye, Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region, after which they set fire to two expensive cars in the yard. The total damage amounted to 30 million rubles, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to him, on the eve of 07:00 on the street, River robbers through the window penetrated the household of an unemployed woman, from where 1 million rubles, jewelry and personal items were stolen.

On the shores of two small islands located in the Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania, about a hundred dolphins jumped up last weekend. According to rescue services, presumably on Saturday night, 13 dolphins of the Afalin were on the shore of the King Island, the next day, 80 dolphins-Afalin and Grinds, were immediately released on a sandy beach of the tiny island of New Years, ITAR-TASS reports.

The procedures of the upcoming US elections of the US President do not comply with the international principles of organizing the electoral process. This is the main conclusion of a comprehensive remote monitoring of the presidential electoral process in the United States, which is carried out by Russian relevant NGOs with the support of the CEC of the Russian Federation.

Beloved of the Russian oligarch Vladislav Doronin Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who organized the holiday in Indian Jodhpur in honor of the 50th anniversary of the businessman, came up with two surprises - Polo on the elephants and the Diana concert Ross, who cost more than half a million dollars. The celebration of the anniversary will take place on November 7 and Naomi has already arrived in Jodhpur, writes The Daily Mail .

Western experts are going to conduct an exhumation of the body of the former Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat on November 26, Associated Press reports on Monday with reference to the Western diplomatic source. According to the interlocutor of this agency, a group of specialists from Switzerland has already arrived on the western bank of the Jordan River. Later, colleagues from France will join them.