Today, Romano Prodi announced that at today's meeting of the Parliament, members of his coalition would not vote on the candidacy of the president. Thus, the coalition of Prodi wants to win the time necessary for negotiations with supporters of Silvio Berlusconi, who have not yet agreed to the candidacy of 80-year-old Georgio Napolitano. Voting in the Italian parliament is scheduled for 11:30 (13:30 Moscow time).

In the city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai, mass poisoning of children occurred, RIA Novosti reports with reference to law enforcement agencies. “From May 5 to 7, 12 children aged five to seven were hospitalized from a kindergarten with signs of food poisoning,” the source said. According to him, at present, experts are trying to establish a source of poisoning.

In the Iraqi city of Tele-Afar, a mined car exploded. According to the police, 17 people were killed, 35 were injured. According to Reuters , the suicide bomber undermined the car filled with explosives in the city market located in the north of the country. Other details of the attack are not yet known.

The 20-year-old American hacker Jenson James Ancels was sentenced to prison in the United States yesterday in the United States, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Reuters. The Ancels was accused of using viruses to infect computers running Windows operating systems. In January, he found himself guilty of criminal conspiracy, fraud and harm to computers of the US government.

In Italy, the second round of the presidential election , as expected, was unsuccessful. This time, most of the ballots - 723 - were not filled: they were thrown into the urn supporters of Prodi in anticipation of a compromise from the supporters of Berlusconi. The latter could not develop a single position and therefore did the same, RIA Novosti reports.

The representative of the US military command, Major General Shaukata Sultan, denied the report that American helicopters had fired on Pakistani territory on the eve, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Pakistani media. According to the general, American helicopters really conducted an operation, but in Afghanistan, three to five kilometers from the border with Pakistan. “Not a single missile fell in Pakistan,” he said.

The time has come to get rid of the totalitarian paraphernalia and artificial pathos unusual for the Ukrainian people in the approach to historical issues, the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko said today, speaking during the celebrations near the National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War.

Despite the certification of the leadership of the Air Force of the Russian Federation that the acceleration of the clouds over the ceiling Victory Day Moscow is underway, dense cloudy was established over the center of the capital. As previously said today by the Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Air Force, Vladimir Mikhailov, by noon all planes that were torn to ensure cloudless weather over Moscow were ready for flight, many were already in the air.

The new British Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett is convinced that not a single country intends to carry out a power impact on Iran. This was announced by Beckett in New York after a meeting of the heads of the Foreign Ministry of the “six” (Russia, the USA, the PRC, France, Germany and the UK). “No one has intentions to carry out a military action (against Iran), and I think that it is simple, clear and understandable,” the minister emphasized.

Supporters of the left -wing parties hold on the day of the victory of the procession in Moscow, the Echo of Moscow radio station reports. From the Belorussian station to the city center there is a column of the Communist Party and some other left -wing parties. At the head of the procession is a military orchestra and veterans of the Great Patriotic War. Following them are the Communists, as well as supporters of “labor Russia”, AKM, NBP and other associations.

In Kaspiysk on Victory Day, residents of the city will honor the memory of those who died with a terrorist attack four years ago. During a festive demonstration on Lenin Street on May 9, 2002, an explosion occurred during the procession of a crowded column, led by the orchestra of the Caspian Brigade of the Marine Corps. As a result of the attack, more than 40 military personnel and civilians, among whom were children, died, dozens of people were injured.

President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, headed the solemn procession on Independence Avenue in Minsk, dedicated to the celebration of Victory Day, RIA Novosti reports. With him in the column, two sons, granddaughter and heroes of the Soviet Union, who 27 people remained in Belarus. On the Victory Square, the laying of flowers took place to the wound of Victory, after which Lukashenko read out a solemn speech. “We must protect the legacy of the war.

In the Kashirsky district of the Moscow Region, three citizens of Uzbekistan were killed, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies of the Moscow Region. “On Monday, at the village of Yakimovskoye on 142 kilometers of the Caspian road, three unknown cassors entered the roadside cafe and demanded money from four citizens of Uzbekistan, hiring workers. Having received a refusal, the attackers opened fire on men, ”the agency told.

The American illusionist David Blane failed to beat the world record of stay under water without air, RIA Novosti reports. On the square in front of the New York concert complex “Lincoln-Center”, an aquarium was installed, in which the stunt-up at the end of the seventh day before reaching the surface planned to free himself from 70-kilogram shackles, holding his breath for nine minutes.

The Iranian President's letter to George Bush does not in any way address the international community's concerns about Iran's nuclear issue. According to AP , White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan said this. McLellan did not provide confirmation that the letter was signed by Ahmadinejad himself. Previously, John Bolton, the representative of the United States at the UN, said that it is unlikely that this message will be able to change the position of the American administration.