Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Hania will go on tomorrow on November 28 on a trip to the Arab countries, including Syria and Iran, MIGNEWS.com reports. From the moment Prime Minister Pa, after the victory of Hamas, in the elections in March 2006, Haniya did not leave the Gaza sector. His three -week tour will begin by visiting Egypt, and will include stops in Lebanon, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Syria and Iran.

The editorial office of Novaya Gazeta in the heading “Urgently in the room” reports that two leading employees of the publication were threatened on November 24 by murder. Threats came in one case - in connection with the investigation of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, in the other - in connection with the publication of articles on the problems of the North Caucasus.

In the morning, employees of the Russian Consulate General Consulate in Marseild find out information about the state of the State Duma deputy Suleiman Kerimov, who suffered in a car accident. The ambulance officer refused to provide any details about the nature of the injuries and damage. According to RIA Novosti, a representative of the Consulate General, its employees are already in the hospital from 8 a.m. to receive information about the state of Kerimov.

**Forward to the WTO!** Last week, what the authorities and the media had been talking about for so long came true: during the Asia-Pacific Community (APEC) summit, US President George W. Bush officially announced that Washington was removing all objections to Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). True, this will not at all lead to Russia’s automatic entry into this organization, since wayward Georgia opposes this.

The musicians of the rock band The Rolling Stones during the A Bigger Bang tour made record fees - $ 437 million, the Air Force reports citing Billboard magazine. The tour began in August 2005 - since then the team has played 110 concerts to 3.5 million fans. The previous fee record belonged to the Irish rockers from the U2, which earned $ 377 million for the Vertigo tour.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin, at a meeting with government members, said that he knows about the problems in the compulsory medical insurance fund and demands to strictly monitor the spending of budget funds from the head of the Ministry of Health. "We know about the problems that are in the compulsory medical insurance fund, they reported to me that the ministry provides all assistance to the investigation authorities," said V. Putin.

The process of restoring state ownership of its largest objects seems to be beginning to accelerate. Before the heated battles around the “YUKOS case” had died down, the state was closely involved in an equally interesting object - the ALROSA company (Diamonds of Russia-Sakha). Moreover, this interest, from a certain point of view, seems logical - all we have is oil and gas on our minds, although the depths of our homeland also conceal diamonds, which seem to have been forgotten.

The main directions of the Unified State Monetary Policy for 2007 submitted to the deputies last week, according to the authors of the document, are called upon to solve two main goals-ensuring the stability of the national currency and reducing inflation. Meanwhile, experts believe that the document sacrifice the second goal, which can cause a serious blow to the competitiveness of Russian enterprises, Kommersant writes today.

The leader of Hamas, in exile, and the head of the Politburo of this group, Khaled Mashal gave a television interview on Sunday, MIGNEWS reports. In his statement, he departed from the previously established six months, which the leadership of Hamas took to the establishment of the Palestinian state. Otherwise, they threatened to start a new uprising against Israel.

Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaidel said today that Georgia will have energy relations with Iran, and presumably, natural gas in Iran would purchase in Georgia, Georgia Online reports. Nogaidel made this statement after the US Ambassador to Georgia John Tafft in an interview with the Georgian newspaper Quiris Paletra noted that long -term energy relations between Georgia and Iran are unacceptable for the United States.

George Bush later arrived on an official visit to Estonia tonight, RIA Novosti reports. At the airport of the US President, the head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry Urmas Paet and the ambassador of Estonia to the United States Yuri Luyk were met. Immediately after the landing, Bush moved to the armored limousine Cadillac Deville and, accompanied by an escort of the Autotor guard, went to the Radisson SAS hotel in the center of Tallinn.

In Russia, it is necessary to carry out the reform of the composition of the Federation Council and move on to the election of its members, said Speaker Sergey Mironov, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. He also expressed the opinion that “it is necessary to proceed to the election of members of the Federation Council,” said the head of the upper house of the Russian parliament.

According to RIA Novosti , Brazil, Mexico, Kazakhstan and Canada may join the project of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), according to the secretary of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the president of the Russian Scientific Center, Kurchatov Institute, Academician Yevgeny Velikhov. He stated this at a press conference in RIA Novosti on Monday.

Today, the next meeting was held in the Moscow Regional Council in the case of the attempt on the head of the RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais, Gazeta.ru reports. This time the meeting is held in the absence of jury. This is due to the fact that the judge appointed a judicial verification after one of the witnesses of the prosecution, Igor Karvatko, stated that the testimony against Vladimir Kvachkov and his accomplices were knocked out by police officers.

In Orenburg, as a result of an accident, more than 70 houses, where more than 5.5 thousand people live without water supply, remained, reports RIA Novosti. Due to the breakthrough of the trunk pipeline with a diameter of 500 millimeters at the intersection of Kobosev and Brykin streets, the water supply to the Rent microdistrict, the Ural River embankment, as well as Sovetskaya Streets, Chicherin and Postnikov. Ten boiler houses due to the accident were left without water supply.