The Government of North Korea announced that it was postponing negotiations with South Korea on economic cooperation. Negotiations were supposed to begin on Wednesday in Pyongyang. The report of the official North Korean news agency states that the delay is caused by the need to strengthen defense capabilities in connection with the US military in Iraq.

The court in the US state Illinois demanded from the Tabachi company Philip Morris payments of more than $ 10 billion for misleading smokers regarding the danger of smoking the so -called "light" cigarettes. Earlier, the Florida state court sentenced the company to a fine worth $ 74 billion, but the company appealed.

Türkiye made the final decision - to provide its airspace by American aviation for operations in Iraq. The Minister of Defense of Turkey Vedzhdi Gyunul said that, despite the objections of Washington, Turkish troops would be introduced into the northern part of Iraq. Ankara explains this by the need to prevent refugee influx to Turkey and prevent the actions of terrorists. The United States believe that this can lead to clashes with the Kurds of Northern Iraq.

In Grozny today was a rally of referendum opponents under the new Constitution of the republic. As the Radio Liberty correspondent reports, about 400 people took part in the protest. They consider it a referendum in the conditions of incessant military operations. Voting will take place tomorrow. 540 thousand residents of Chechnya, as well as 36 thousand Russian troops, are included in the voter lists.

Sergei Danilochkin talks with a Radio Liberty correspondent/Free Europe on the border of Turkey and Iraq by the backwater Eshanova. Sergey Danilochkin: The situation in the north of Iraq in the area of the border with Turkey is relatively calm. There is a correspondent of Radio Liberty/Free Europe Zamir Eskhanov. Zamir, where are you directly now? Zamir Eskhanova: I am in the last Turkish town of Power, this is right on the border with Iraq.

Türkiye introduced about a thousand of its troops to Northern Iraq, the Western media reports. Ankara is still refusing comments. Türkiye has repeatedly stated that it could place troops in this area - to ensure the security of its territory and prevent refugee influxes to the country. The United States expresses fears that the introduction of Turkish units into Northern Iraq will lead to clashes with the Kurds living there.

The host of the Topic Program Sergey Danilochkin: a man of the week Radio Liberty, a French actor, comedian Marseille Marso, who turned 80 on March 22. Born in Strasbourg in a Jewish family, the stage pseudonym - Marseille Marso - chose himself by the name of General of the Napoleonic Army. He fought in French resistance during the Second World War. A student of the outstanding actor Jean-Louis Barro.

At least one person died and nine were injured as a result of a terrorist attack in the north of Iraq. The terrorist of the self-assembly drove up to the checkpoint and activated the explosive device. The deceased is a journalist. His name and nationality are not yet known. Local Kurdish authorities believe that an extremist Islamic group of Ansar al-Islam, closely associated with al-Qaeda, is involved in the organization of the attack in the north of Iraq.

In the south-east of Afghanistan in the province of hosts, the patrol of government troops was ambushed. Three soldiers are seriously injured. Who the attack made is unknown. In this area there are small groups of the Taliban and detachments of the field commander Gulbudin Hekyar. In the south of the country, American units, with the support of Afghan troops, continue to comb mountainous areas in search of Al-Qaeda militants and Taliban.

Ayia Kuga , Belgrade: Within ten days after the murder of Zoran Ginjich, the police detained more than two and a half thousand people, and a thousand of them were taken under arrest. A huge amount of weapons and ammunition was seized, hundreds of kilograms of drugs.

Russian air defense systems have discovered today an American reconnaissance aircraft near the border with Georgia. According to the head of the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense Nikolai Deryabin, the U-2 plane flew over the Georgian territory. To prevent possible violation of the border, fighters were raised into the air. Deryabin emphasized that in recent years it is the third flight of an American aircraft along the border.

The combat aircraft of the United States and Great Britain inflicted on this morning new Iraqi missile and bomb strikes. The suburbs of Baghdad were subjected to bombing, in particular. On the eve of the Iraqi capital and other cities, more than one and a half thousand missiles and bombs were released. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Iraq reports on heavy battles in the city in the area of the city of Nasiria near the Euphrates River.

Throughout the world, protests against the war in Iraq continue. Large anti -war demonstrations take place today in Paris, Berlin, Rome and Athens. In the capital of Switzerland, Berne took part in the manifesto by more than 20 thousand people. It is expected that in London up to one hundred thousand people will go on a march of protest. Anti -war marches took place in New Zealand, Australia, South Korea and Japan.

Great Britain urged all countries of the world to freeze Iraq's accounts - so that after the end of the war, use them to restore this country. British Minister of Finance Gordon Brown said today that London - after Washington - decided to block all accounts related to Saddam Hussein in order to use them later in the interests of the Ira region

In the city of Hobart, in the Australian state of Tasmania, a demonstration of protest against the military operations in Iraq was today took place today. About two and a half thousand people took part in the manifestations. Mass shares of opponents of the war were held yesterday in the non -erace cities of the world. The most numerous demonstration took place in Athens. More than 200 thousand people took to the streets of the Greek capital.