US President George Bush considers it possible to invite to Washington to negotiate the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Autonomy, ”said Bush adviser to National Security of Condoliza Rice. It is expected that Mahmoud Abbas will be approved as the head of the Palestinian government on Monday. The United States expressed the hope that it will have broad powers.

In Bryansk, five people died and three are in intensive care as a result of gas leakage in a five -story building on Stanko Dimitrov Street. According to the authorities, the version of gas poisoning is the main one, but it still requires confirmation.

21 people are today sentenced by a court in Cairo to three -year imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. 29 defendants - justified. Two years ago, at the first hearing the case, the defendants received an easier prison. The process caused the protests of world focusing, and President Hosni Mubarak demanded a second trial. The lawyers of the convicts claim that the process was held with serious extensions.

Semen Mirsky: The fault line between France on the one hand and the United States is not the only sign of the growing alienation between France and its partners in the military and political unions of the Western powers, which is the best confirmation of the rapidly worsening relations between Paris and London.

The UN military experts continue the inspections of Iraqi objects in search of weapons of mass destruction. On Saturday, they examined six nuclear power plants and a pharmaceutical warehouse. In recent days, experts have observed the elimination of the Iraqi missiles of the near radius of al-Samud-2. To date, 65 out of 120 missiles have been destroyed. Russia today stated that it is waiting for a new report by the head of the inspectors of Hans of the Blix, scheduled for March 17.

Marina Timasheva: I continue the story about those performances that were included in the Poster of the Golden Mask festival. There will be no particular doubt that the play “Oedipus Tsar” will fall into her the performance “Oedipus Tsar” based on the play of Sophocles of the theater. Firstly, when I watched the performance at the Baltic House festival, I saw a real hunt for it European producers. Everyone wanted to heal Oedipus to himself, and as early as possible.

In Ukraine, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the miner died today. He was deadly injured by a moving transport ribbon at the Pavlogradskaya mine. Since the beginning of the year, more than 40 Ukrainian miners have already died.

The leaders of the five African countries at a meeting in Luanda (Angola) opposed the use of military force in Iraq. A joint statement refers to the need for a peaceful settlement of the crisis. Angola is a member of the UN Security Council. The current statement indicates that it obviously will not support the resolution on Iraq proposed by the United States, Great Britain and Spain. The document was also signed by the leaders of Mozambique, San Tome and Principi, Cabo-Verde and Guinea-Bisau.

The militants of the Hezbollah group fired at Israeli combat aircraft over the South Lebanon. At least 15 anti -aircraft shells were released by aircraft. The UN considers both Israeli aviation flights over Lebanon and the Hezbollah armed shares in violation of the conditions for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the south of Lebanon in 2000.

Presentation, translation: Ostap Carmody Presenter Sergey Yurienen He is a little over 40. Tall, with blue-black hair, dressed from head to toe in black, an Englishman who moved to America and lives somewhere in the outback. A writer who raised the comics genre from its knees, revived the Gothic novel and was literally strewn with international awards in various genre categories of what is called pop literature - in pictures and prose.

The World Health Organization - WHO - announced on Saturday about the spread of a new type of pneumonia with fatal outcome. WHO reports that the disease has already been recorded in the south of Asia - in Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines and Taiwan. However, a new form of pneumonia was also found in Canada, where two people have already died from it.

The Spanish police arrested yesterday 20 activists of the Ecological Organization "Greenpeace", which blocked the exit to the sea to the American military ship, who was heading to the Persian Bay. Today in many countries of the world there will be demonstrations against the war in Iraq. According to the organizers, about half a million people will take part in the anti -war action in Milan.

Tatyana Voltskaya: I have long wanted to challenge the obvious position that Russia is large and Europe is small. Yes, the rolls of Russian space running outside the window are endless. But they are empty, like harsh fabric. Unsiable forests and swamps are absorbed by the eye almost without a trace. And the shreds of European fabric are so thickly embroidered, so much work is invested by a square centimeter that the size no longer matters.

Ayya Kuga: Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Dvinzhich was buried in the Honorary Citizens' Alley in the new cemetery in Belgrade, with the highest state and military honors. More than forty foreign delegations arrived in the capital of Serbia - representatives at a high level of all neighboring countries, all countries of the European Union, the USA, Russia. Due to their presence in Belgrade, special security measures were introduced, but this was not felt during the funeral.

Flights of American spacecraft with crews on board can be resumed this year. One of the leaders of the American aerospace agency (NASA) Bill Raddie said that the decision on this will be made depending on the results of the investigation of the causes of the death of the coal -on -use ship of Columbia on February 1. After the disaster, all the flights of space shuttles were temporarily canceled. Previously, NASA intended to use them until 2012.