In Abkhazia on Monday, joint large-scale exercises of the air defense and air forces with combat firing, launching missiles and striking with front-line aviation along the educational airfield, RIA Novosti , begins. The exercises that should end on November 30 will be led by the head of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of Abkhazia, General Anatoly Zaitsev.

The prosecution will ask for suspects in the implementation of terrorist attacks in Madrid electric trains 230 thousand years of imprisonment, AR reports. 29 people are accused of preparing and implementing explosions in electric trains on March 11, 2004, as a result of which 191 people died. According to an employee of the National Judicial Chamber of Spain, by Spanish laws, convicts can spend no more than 40 years in prison.

The heads of the foreign policy departments of Russia and the USA Sergey Lavrov and Kondoliza Rice discussed on Monday issues related to Iran’s nuclear program, RIA Novosti reports.

Last Sunday, at the age of 81, the former Turkish Prime Minister Buent Ejevit died in the hospital, RIA Novosti reports. The ex-Prime Minister was hospitalized about six months ago in connection with a stroke. Since then, he has not come into consciousness. Boult Edgevit was one of the key figures in the Turkish political arena for almost half a century. He lost power in 2002, losing to the election to the current Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

In Abkhazia, joint exercises of the air defense and Air Force troops are held, the Caucasian Knot reports. According to the head of the exercises, the head of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of Abkhazia, General Anatoly Zaitsev, these are the first joint events of this kind of these two structures. During the exercises, combat firing, launching missiles and struck by front -line aviation along the educational airfield will be carried out.

President of Poland Lech Kachinsky made an offer to form an army of the European Union, a number of 100 thousand people who would be associated with NATO and, if necessary, could protect Europe and take part in international operations, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to FT. “Now the European Union needs 8 thousand military to send them to Lebanon, but it is not clear where to find them ...

In the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, a barge sank, which was considered the missing. According to Gazeta.Ru , it was on it about 900 tons of coal for heating in the winter of the village of Ayan in the Khabarovsk Territory. The barge sank in the area of ​​the island of Reineke, 190 km from the port of Moskalvo. The ship on which there was no command led to Ayan Tug "Griff".

A bomb exploded outside a police station in a Sunni neighborhood in western Beirut. There is no information about casualties yet, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to a source in the Lebanese police who wished to remain anonymous, the bomb exploded on Sunday evening near a police station in the Tarek-Jdeideh area. Earlier last week, police barracks in another, also Sunni, area of ​​the Lebanese capital came under fire from an under-barrel grenade launcher.

At the Coal Mine in the Chinese province of Shanxi, where gas explosion occurred on the eve of the day and at least 17 miners were killed in the face, an active search for at least 30 miners, whose fate remains unknown, is conducted on Monday, the Chinese media reports, RIA Novosti reports.

Two prisoners of the Portuguese prison were taken hostage by the priest during the Sunday Mass, Gazeta.Ru reports. According to representatives of the authorities, prisoners promise to release the hostage, provided that they themselves will be released from prison. Now the leadership of the prison and police are negotiating with criminals. At the moment, it is known that everything is in order with the priest and his life has not yet threatened.

The head of the British cabinet Tony Blara may threaten the arrest due to the scandal with the appointment of members of the House of Lords in exchange for monetary donations, Echo Moscow reports with reference to the newspaper Mail on Sunday.

NATO Secretary General JAP de Jop Scheffer said that the Alliance is not aimed at becoming a global military-political union, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, "we do not need a global NATO. Our transformation is not aimed at this.

President Taiwan refused to resign despite the fact that charges of corruption were brought against his wife. According to RIA Novosti , the prosecutor's office also has the grounds for initiating a criminal case against the president, but due to integrity it cannot start it until 2008.

The head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Rene van der Linden warned that the death sentence to ex-president Iraq Saddam Hussein could only worsen the situation in the region, RBC reports. According to Linden, even if Hussein’s wine is proved, his execution will lead to new clashes and riots in Iraq; "The crimes committed by the S. Hussain are terrible, and he really needs to be punished for them.

According to Joseph Ordzhonikidze, deputy mayor of Moscow, prohibition measures will not help solve the problem of traffic jams in the capital, RIA Novosti reports. He said that at present, the so -called "intercepting" parking lots began to be built around the garden and third transport rings in Moscow, where it would be possible to leave the car and go further by public transport.