The summit of the heads of 34 American states in the Canadian city of Quebec opened on Friday with a half hour late - due to clashes between the police and demonstrators - opponents of the globalization of the economy. The main goal of a three -day summit is to create a merchant block uniting the country from Canada to Chile with a total population of 800 million people.

In the south of Serbia, the Albanian rebels fired several shots towards the motorcade with American diplomats visiting the demilitarized zone near the border with Kosovo. No one was injured. The incident occurred near the city of Buyanovats. On the same day, near the city of Medvedzh, the Albanian sniper wounded the Yugoslav soldier patroling the buffer zone. Since November last year, Albanian rebels controlled most of this zone.

Afghan Taliban demanded that the United Nations revoke its special observer of human rights Kamal Hosseini. In a message to the UN Secretary General Cofi Annan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban government claims that the observer reports do not contain a word of truth. In a recent report by the UN Human Rights Commission, Kamal Hosseini accused the Taliban of killing civilians in Bamian province.

In the center of Moscow on Manezhnaya Square last night, a Chechen young man was killed - a native of the city of Argun Mairbek Eleesev. According to a number of Russian media, two young people approached the group of Chechens and began to shout insults. Eleesev chased one of the offenders and was killed by a knife blow. The Second Chechens detained and handed over to the police. The Chechens are sure that the murderers of Eleesaev are members of the pro -fascist youth group.

30 people were executed today in the Chinese province of Hubay. Another 8 defendants were sentenced to death in one of the southwestern provinces. On Friday, more than 30 death sentences were carried out. According to the Chinese state media, the country is conducting a campaign to combat organized crime. International human rights organizations pay attention to a sharp increase in the number of executions in the PRC in the past two years.

The Palestinian authorities arrested 8 activists of the Hamas Islamist group, which took responsibility for recent mortar shelling of Jewish settlements in the gas sector and settlements in Israel. This step was taken after Israel weakened the restrictions on the movement of transport and the population in the gas sector. On Friday, according to France Press, 16 Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli troops.

Today, the appeal is expired to the decision of the Spanish court, which refused to transfer to Russia the head of the media-Most holding Vladimir Gusinsky. According to the official representative of the holding, at midnight, Madrid time from Gusinsky will be removed by police supervision and he will receive complete freedom of movement. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office stated that it would continue to seek the issuance of a media magnate through Interpol.

The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution on Friday with the condemnation of Russia for the actions of its armed forces in Chechnya. The document contains a requirement to conduct a thorough investigation of violations by the Russian military rights of human rights in Chechnya. The resolution proposed by the European Union was supported by representatives of 22 states, 12 - voted against, 19 - abstained.

Vitaly Tsygankov, Minsk: On April 21, the unregistered youth movement "Zubr" took the final diagnosis. The action was dedicated to the days of mental health that the UN celebrated this week. Opposition leaflets and stickers appeared on the streets of Minsk, on which a man in a hockey helmet, very similar to Alexander Lukashenko, says: "I'm sick.

The Governor of the Kaliningrad Region Vladimir Egorov addressed Poland and Lithuania to postpone, as far as possible, the introduction of a visa regime for residents of this Russian region. Egorov expressed the hope that the European Union will help ensure the free movement of people and goods between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the territory of Russia through Poland and Lithuania, which claim to be membership in the EU.

In Tula, the regional court today considers the complaint of the candidate for the Tula governors of Viktor Sokolovsky. Sokolovsky does not agree with the decision of the regional election commission, which introduced his candidacy in the ballot for voting on the upcoming second round of the governor's elections on Sunday. He must compete with the current head of the region Vasily Starodubtsev, who is running for a second term.

Two people died in Peru when a military aircraft mistakenly opened fire on a private plane, on board the American missionaries. Two other passengers and pilot who were injured managed to escape. According to reports, the Peruvian military believed that they were fire on an airplane who transported smuggling drugs

The French pharmaceutical corporation Sanofi-Synthelabo has created an experimental drug that weakens the narcotic effect of marijuana . It blocks the receptors of brain neurons that perceive the active ingredients of Indian hemp, and significantly reduces the level of drug intoxication caused by smoking marijuana. American nutritionists recommend that young women not only adhere to a diet with small fats, but also enrich it with calcium and vitamin A.

The UN patrol ships detained a tanker with smuggled oil from Iraq in the waters of the Persian Gulf. On board the tanker, walking under the flag of Honduras, was one and a half thousand tons of Iraqi oil. The ship is ruined in one of the ports of the United Arab Emirates. According to sanctions introduced by the UN against Iraq in the early 90s, the volume of sales of Iraqi oil is severely limited.

In Chechnya, the Russian military blocked the city of Argun. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, special forces are conducting an operation to search for Chechen fighters involved in mining roads. This morning, a Ural car was blown up near Argun on a landmine. The driver and passenger - the inhabitants of Dagestan - were injured. Yesterday, under similar circumstances, two local residents were injured.