In China, according to the budget draft for 2007, defense expenses will amount to almost $ 45 billion, the representative of the All -Chinese Assembly of People's Representatives (BCH) Jiang Enzhu said on Sunday at a briefing. According to him, the expenses of the defense budget this year will amount to about 350 billion yuan, which is more than 17.8%more than the previous year, RIA Novosti reports.

Responsibility for the last terrorist attack in Algeria, as a result of which a Russian citizen was killed, was taken by the extremist organization "Group of sermons and struggle", betrayed the Vesti-24 channel. Earlier today, the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed information about the death of a Russian citizen as a result of this attack.

In Slovakia, the Minister of Defense of the country Frantiseka Kashitsky filed a petition for resignation, reports Ar . The minister made such a decision in connection with the explosion on March 2 at the weapons factory of the city of Novaki. As a result of the explosion, three people were killed, and the traces of five have not yet been found among the fragments of destroyed buildings. The Prime Minister and the President have not yet made applications for the satisfaction of the petition.

Three climbers died in the mountains in northern Italy, reports AR with reference to the local authorities. The police are investigating what happened. At the moment, the reasons for the fall of climbers from Mount Antimedale are not established. Italian rescue services were announced by another climber who witnessed the incident. One climber, a man aged 47, died on the spot. Two others-a 34-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman, died on the way to the hospital.

In Istanbul, the demonstrators were thrown with bottles of incendiary mixture of three buses, RBC reports. As a result of arson, one of the bus drivers received burns. None of the passengers were injured. A group of 50 demonstrators was in support of the Kurdish Workers Party banned in Turkey (KRP).

Before dawn, the search for people who could be under a snow avalanche who went down in the Krasnaya Polyana area near Sochi was suspended, Echo Moscow reports. Before dawn, the search for people who could be under a snow avalanche, which went down in the Krasnaya Polyana area near Sochi, are suspended. Witnesses say that the avalanche covered a group of 4 people. Previously, the body of a 10-year-old boy was found. He rode skiing with his father. The latter survived.

Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov intends to ask federal authorities to provide former militants with a new amnesty, reports Echo of Moscow. He is sure that this will contribute to the strengthening of peace and stability in the republic. Kadyrov believes that the new amnesty could affect people who did not last long as part of illegal formations, but then refused to participate in the hostilities and left the republic. According to him, many of these people are not guilty of unleashing war.

In five villages of the lower zone of the Galsky district of Abkhazia, where Georgians live compactly, elections to the parliament of the unrecognized republic are disrupted, RBC reports with reference to the Rustavi 2 TV channel. The polling stations in the villages did not open at all: members of the election commissions were met by proclaims of protest against the election.

The United Administrative and Technical Inspections (OATIs) of Moscow will check all the empty buildings prepared for disassembly and demolition, a source in the capital administration said on Saturday in the evening. This was reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax.

In the west of Baghdad, the editor of the independent newspaper EM-Mashrik Mohan Ed-Dahir has been killed since 2003, AR reports. According to another editor of the publication Sad Ali, his colleague was shot dead by two hired killers at the door of his house, located in the Sunni district. Ed-Dahir himself is Shiit, but “he had good relations with the Sunnis neighbors-he was a moderate person not related to any political groups,” Ali said.

A bus of a Russian company was blown up in Algeria, there are dead and wounded, RIA Novosti reports. The incident occurred in the area of ​​the city of Ain Defla in the south of Algeria. According to preliminary data, we are talking about a terrorist attack, as a result of which one Russian and three Algerian employees of the Russian company died, at least five people were injured. The province of Ain Defla is known as the area where groups of Islamic extremists actively operate.

According to preliminary data, the reformist party is the leader in the election of parliamentary parliament in Estonia, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Republican election commission of Estonia (VVK), after the counting of more than 122 thousand votes, 26.8% of voters voted for the reformists. The Center Party received 21.5%, the United Party of the Union of the Fatherland and the Republic (IRL) 20.6%.

On Sunday, Australian troops, with the support of tanks, helicopters and aircraft, invaded the city in East Timor, where the rebellious leader Alfredo Reinado was besieged for several days, reports Lenta.ru . According to eyewitnesses of events, Reinado and his supporters desperately defend the city of Mama, which civilians have already left.

Russian tennis player Mikhail Yuzhny could not win in the final match of the tournament (prize fund - 1401250 American dollars), which ended in Dubai. In the decisive meeting, the Russian was defeated by the first racket of the world (and the tournament itself) Swiss Roger Federer with a score of 4: 6, 3: 6. Recently, Federer broke the record for the duration of stay in the first place in the Attskor -ranking. The record is 161 weeks.

In the capital of Denmark, where during the past two nights there were clashes of demonstrators with the police, riots begin again, which threaten to acquire a massive nature, reports Gazeta.ru with reference to AP. Now small groups of demonstrators are thrown with stones of the police and set fire to garbage tanks. According to representatives of the authorities, information about clashes comes from several areas of the city.