Israel and Palestinian autonomy resumed peace negotiations on Wednesday. The member of the Palestinian delegation Saab Erekat said after a meeting with Israeli representative Gilad Sherra that the Palestinian side insisted on the participation of the United States in negotiations. The main obstacle to the achievement of a peace agreement is the contradictions in the issue of the status of Jerusalem. Palestinians insist that East Jerusalem should become the capital of their state.

Oleg Kusov, North Caucasus: Dagestan law enforcement agencies argue that participants in last year’s sabotage acts and hostilities from the rebel armed detachments operating in the Kadar zone and the border regions of the republic are hiding on the territory of neighboring Azerbaijan. As evidence in Makhachkala, 7 detainees in Azerbaijan were presented to journalists who were previously put on the international wanted list.

Four people died on Wednesday in the Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya when installing a landmine on the side of the road, the ORT television company said. On Wednesday, Colonel Peter Valkevich, seriously wounded on September 11 in Gudermes as a result of shelling of the car in which he was located, died in the Makhachkala hospital. In the city of Argun, a series of attempts on law enforcement officials was committed.

An annual medical examination and thorough palpation of the mammary glands reduce the likelihood of death from the breast tumors to the same extent as the use of mammography. This is the opinion of Canadian doctors who assessed the effectiveness of both diagnostic methods during a mass clinical experiment, which covered nearly 40 thousand patients over 50 years old.

On Thursday, Iran tested the new model of the Shahab-3 ballistic missile. Tehran claims that the tests were not military in nature, since the rocket will be used to display communication satellites into the space.

Sergey Sleptsov, Rostov on the Don: In Rostov, the plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the Southern Federal District, Army General Viktor Kazantsev met with the picketers of the headquarters of the North Caucasian Military District, contractors of the 70th regiment of the 42nd motorized rifle division, served in Chechnya.

Two Russian border guards - corporal Pavel Leshchuk and Private Peter Yantikov died on the border with Norway, undermining on a mine of the Second World War. The incident occurred on September 19 in the area of responsibility of the Nickel border detachment of the Arctic Regional Directorate of the Border Service. A commission of the Federal Border Service works at the scene.

In the Chechen Republic, serious violations of human rights are taking place, ”said Alexander Tkachev, head of the Duma commission on Chechnya, who made a report at a hearing in the State Duma. According to Tkachev, the main reason for the violations is crimes committed by international terrorists and the Chechen formations supporting them. Tkachev also noted that numerous human rights violations occur with the so -called "sweeping" and mass detention of civilians.

The criminal case against the management of the RAO UES company will be closed, ”the financial director of the company Dmitry Zhurba said today. Earlier, the Department of the Federal Tax Police Service for Moscow announced the initiation of a criminal case against the management of the UES RAI for tax evasion. According to the tax police, the company's debts are more than three billion rubles.

The program is conducted by Savik Schuster. He talks with the leading expert of Finmarket by Andrei Lusnikov. Savik Shuster: On Thursday, the arbitration court decided to arrest the shares of the Media-Most holding, and the bailiff of the Ministry of Justice began to fulfill this decision. We discussed the meaning of the decision of the Arbitration Court with the leading expert of Finmarket by Andrei Lusnikov.

In Colombia, engineers from Russia and Lithuania are liberated - Vladimir Larin and Vladimir Molodtsov, captured on September 13 with left extremists. According to a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, engineers were released yesterday. Local authorities and representatives of the Catholic Church agreed on their liberation with the rebels.

In Vietnam, several dozen people died and more than two million were left without shelter as a result of the strongest flood over the past 40 years. The water level in the Mekong River rose by five meters and continues to grow. Thousands of military personnel evacuate the population from the injured areas. In Cambodia, more than 130 people were killed as a result of a natural disaster.

The Iranian Court of Appeal today is expected to announce the final decision in the case of ten Iranian Jews, sentenced in July to various terms of imprisonment on charges of espionage. Three of the 13 defendants who were in this case were previously justified. The United States and France called on Iran’s authorities to ensure an honest and fair trial. The court passed behind closed doors, without the participation of the jury, and the judge acted as a prosecutor.

The Canadian government plans to introduce for immigrants tests for HIV infection and hepatitis-b. Those whose tests will be positive will not receive a residence in Canada. Now all applicants for immigration to Canada are checked for tuberculosis and syphilis. The authorities of Canada, whose population is 30 million people, believe that for the normal development of the country, the influx of immigrants should be no more than 250 thousand a year.

In the capital of the United States, a bronze monument to Pushkin was opened . The opening ceremony was held by US Secretary of State Strogub Talbot and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. In the coming weeks, the next memoirs of the former President of Russia Boris Yeltsin will appear on the book shelves . According to his assistant Vladimir Shevchenko, the book is dedicated to the events after 1996 and covers in detail the president’s decision to resign in the last days of last year.