In Genoa today the meeting of the leaders of the countries of the "Big Seven" and Russia is ending. Participants in the summit will sign the final communique, summing up the results of the forum. On Saturday, joint statements were accepted at the Summit on the situation in Macedonia, in the Middle East and on the Korean Peninsula. The leaders of eight countries also discussed a plan for financial assistance to developing countries.

Presidents of the United States and Russia George Bush and Vladimir Putin will be negotiating today - after the official closure of the Big Seven summit and Russia. It is expected that the main topic of the discussion will be the Washington plan to create a new missile defense system, which Moscow categorically objects against.

At least 35 people were injured this morning as a result of two terrorist attacks in the capital of Indonesia - Jakarta. Explosive devices laid down among Christian churches in the area where the Indonesian military lives, worked during the Sunday service. The terrorist attacks were committed on the eve of the beginning of the hearing on Monday about the impeachment of the President of the country Abdurrahman Vahid in the upper house of the Indonesian parliament - the folk advisory assembly.

The hot lava approaches the settlements around the Etna volcano on the island of Sicily. This is the strongest eruption of the largest active volcano of Europe over the past decades. Fire lava in powerful streams is poured from five new craters at an altitude of about 2700 meters. To interfere with fires, the Italian Navy helicopters drop a large number of containers with water on the slopes of the mountain.

The President of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid called on the command of the country's armed forces "to remember his obligations to protect the Constitution." The Wahid again rejected the requirements of the Indonesia Parliament to submit a report on his activities and give an answer to accusations of corruption. On Monday, deputies intend to begin the impeachment of the president.

In the center of Beijing, increased security measures have been introduced today in connection with the second anniversary of the Chinese authorities of the Falungun religious movement. On the Square of TiananMen there are units of the police and the army. Today, an activist of the movement was arrested there for an attempt to deploy a poster in defense of Falungun.

The head of the Belarusian Federation of Trade Unions, Vladimir Goncharik, became a candidate of opposition in the upcoming September 9 elections of the President of Belarus. Four other opposition politicians who claimed the post of head of state today have removed their candidates in favor of Goncharik. The opposition expresses the hope that the agreement on the nomination of one candidate will strengthen its position in the elections.

In Grozny, a military personnel of the internal troops received severe injuries as a result of the explosion. Last day, four civilians were also blown up in the Chechen capital on explosive devices. The representative of the city commandant’s office told Interfax that "lately, Grozny has become a landfill of the mine war." Over the past day, the positions of Russian troops in Chechnya were fired six times.

The Chinese police detained at least five activists of the Falungun on the Tiananmen Square. They tried to organize a protest in connection with the second anniversary of the prohibition of movement. Today, in the center of Beijing, increased security measures have been introduced. On the Square of TiananMen there are units of the police and the army.

Bulgaria Prime Minister Simeon Saxen-Koburg released the composition of the new government of the country on Sunday. Nikolai Vasilev, who worked in London banks, was proposed to the post of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economics. The Minister of Finance will be Milen Velchev from the Mrill-Lynch financial corporation. For the first time after the fall of the communist regime, representatives of the Turkish community of Bulgaria will include the office.

The Russian mutual understanding and reconciliation Foundation begins from today the payment of compensation to former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and persons, stolen to forced labor in Germany during the Second World War. As the head of the Supervaling Council of the Foundation Lyudmila Narusov told the Interfax agency, first of all, 10 thousand of the most elderly from the Nazism of Russians will receive compensation.

George Harrison, a member of the legendary Bitles group, is sure of his close death. This was announced by a close friend of the singer and former Bitles producer George Martin. In an interview with the British magazine, Mail Sandai, Martin said Harrison knows about close death and courageously behaves. 58-year-old George Harrison conducted the third course of treatment in the Swiss hospital, he found a cancer tumor of the brain.

On Sunday, the Prime Minister of Israeli, on Sunday, rejected the proposal of the leaders of the Big Seven countries and Russia to place international observers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone. Earlier, Israeli officials allowed the possibility of taking observers - if it are Americans. On the same day, at the negotiations in Aman, the head of the Palestinian autonomy Yasir Arafat and King of Jordan Abdullah welcomed the initiative of the Eight Group.

The leaders of the "Big Seven" and Russia called on the Government of Macedonia to ensure the full rule of the Albanian minority in the country. Their joint statement also contains a requirement for all armed groups in Macedonia - put together a weapon and self -dissolve. Participants in the summit in Genoa spoke out for holding a conference to assist this country - after a strong world is established there.

In Genoa, a three -day meeting of the leaders of the Great Seven countries and Russia ended today. The final communique indicates the need to deal with "global warming." At the same time, a fundamental discrepancy in the views between the United States and other participants in the summit on the problem of ratification of the Kyotsky protocol on the reduction of industrial emissions into the atmosphere is emphasized.