At least one person died and 16 were injured in today in the city of Kyzyltep in the southeast of Turkey in clashes of local residents with the police. According to RIA Novosti , 30 people were detained for the provision of resistance to law enforcement agencies. Claces with the police occurred today and in other areas of the Turkish southeast, inhabited mainly by the Kurds, the NTV television company reports.

Roscosmos signed a contract with a citizen of Japan Daisuke Enomoto for a tourist flight at the ISS in the fall of 2006 as part of the next crew. Today, the head of the manned programs of Roscosmos, Alexei Krasnov, announced this. At the same time, Roskosmos considers as an understudy and a candidate for the next tourist flight to anuush Ansari, an American Iranian descent, RIA Novosti reports.

Israeli aviation inflicted a missile blow to the northern part of the gas sector. As stated in the statement of the military command of Israel, the purpose of the attack was an empty building, which was used by Palestinian militants carrying out missile shelling of the southern Israeli territories. As a result of the air strike, the building was destroyed. There were no data on the victims.

Today, on the initiative of several environmental protection associations, an action was organized on the Belgian coast to clean the beach zone from garbage, RIA Novosti reports. According to local media, about 400 volunteers responded to the call of ecologists, who manually collected 1812 kilograms of garbage, bypassing a total of 11 kilometers of the coastline. "Subbotnik" for cleaning the beach area is held in Belgium for the third spring in a row.

The successful launch of the rocket made by Iran, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, indicates that Tehran realizes a “very active and aggressive military program”. The US State Department made such a statement today.

In 2006-2010, China intends to invest 10 billion yuan (about $ 1.2 billion) in the purification of the Sungari River. According to representatives of the State Environmental Protection and State Committee on Development and Reform of the PRC, the Chinese side is ready to learn from the incident with a leakage to the river of harmful substances as a result of the explosion in chemical production.

Today, the lawyer of the former head of the oil company Yukos Natalya Terekhova said that at present Mikhail Khodorkovsky works as a collector of finished products in the sewing workshop of the Chita colony, RIA Novosti reports. Terekhova said that the sewing production of the ESC-head of the Yukos was distributed immediately after admission to the colony, worked as a student of the Swabe-Motorist and received a new position recently.

The transport aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies delivered humanitarian aid to Iran, injured from the earthquake, RIA Novosti reports, citing the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation. The plane landed in the city of Kermanshah at 20.50 Moscow time. Yesterday, a strong earthquake occurred in the Iranian Western Province of Lustan.

The Government of Estonia approved and sent for consideration to Riigikoga - the country's parliament - the amendments to the bill on identity documents prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to the bill on a change in the law on state duties. Their goal is to use biometric data in regular documents and a reduction in the validity of the identification documents from 10 to 5 years.

Today, the crew of the 13th expedition successfully arrived at the ISS. The crew members are not superstitious, and confidence in the success of the mission to the astronauts adds the Orthodox Cross brought to board, delivered to the station as part of the Easter international charity event in outer space.

Poland will support Ukraine on the path of integration into the European community, Ukrainian Pravda reports. This was stated today by Polish Polish Lech Kachinsky during a visit to Lviv. "We are interested in the development of bilateral relations with Ukraine and will help her in European integration," he said. In addition, Kacinsky said that Poland does not intend to break out diplomatic relations with Belarus, but will maintain them at a minimum possible level.

US President George Bush said his country is ready to help the victims of the earthquake in Iran . He said that the Americans cannot remain indifferent to the sufferings of the Iranian people, despite serious disagreements between the two countries regarding Tehran’s nuclear program. “Iran and I, of course, have discrepancies in the views, but we empathize with the suffering Iranian people,” Bush said at a joint press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.

Disputes for leadership in the Egyptian party of the Al-VAFD out of an armed clash with the participation of several hundred activists, RIA Novosti reports. Representatives of two warring factions, each of which offers the party leader of his candidate, entered a fierce battle on Saturday on the territory of the main party office in Cairo. This was reported by the AP agency with reference to the police. According to eyewitnesses, the police did not interfere in what was happening.

The counting of votes in the elections to the Parliament of Ukraine was held without mass falsifications, President Viktor Yushchenko said today in a radio show to the Ukrainian people, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

In the vicinity of Baghdad, an American helicopter crashed, reports Reuters , citing the command of the US troops in Iraq. The incident occurred southwest of the Iraqi capital. The Americans say that the helicopter was involved in air patrols. Type of helicopter, crew and accurate coordinates of the disaster are not indicated. Whether the helicopter was shot down as a result of enemy fire, is also not specified.