US President George Bush said today that the data that he brought in January in the speech, which served as a justification for the war with Iraq, were verified by American special services. Today, the Washington Post newspaper said that the US Central Intelligence Directorate of the United States last in the fall of last year knew about the inaccuracy of information about the attempts of the Saddam Hussein regime to buy Uranus in Africa.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder believes that the Italian deputy minister of tourism Stefano Stefani, who made an extremely incorrect statement about the Germans, deserves dismissal. In an interview with German television, Schroeder emphasized, however, that this is the internal business of Italy, in which he does not want to intervene. Schroeder himself sent the Minister of Justice last year, who allowed himself a sharp attack on the US president.

The Serbian authorities are investigating the grandiose financial scam of the era of the reign of Slobodan Milosevich. In 1997, 51 percent of the shares of the State Holding "Telecom Serbia" was sold to the Italian Telecom for about $ 500 million. Last year, Serbia bought stocks for $ 220 million. Apparently, the difference of 280 million went in the form of bribes to Milosevich and his associates.

Marina Timasheva , Moscow: An event took place in Moscow theater life, which, without any hope, dreamed of everyone - the Lithuanian director Eimuntas Necroshushyus put with the Russian actors Chekhov’s play “Cherry Orchard” Aimuntas Necroshoshus, at least among Russian experts, is listed as director number one. His performances "Uncle Vanya" and "Square", "Three sisters" and "Little tragedies", "Macbeth" and "Hamlet" are part of the history of the world theater.

German doctors first put into practice a new method of prenatal surgery, which for many years experienced in animal experiments. Associate Professor of Bonn University Thomas Kol and his colleagues, using endoscopic instruments, performed three operations to eliminate intrauterine abnormalities that threatened the splitting of the spine. When these babies were born, they had only very weak symptoms of paralysis of the lower extremities, which invariably accompanied this pathology.

Hundreds of Palestinians in the Israeli prison Megiddo announced a hunger strike, demanding the release of all Palestinian prisoners, says Radio Israeli. The question of the liberation of the Palestinians was discussed on Friday night at a meeting of the Minister of Defense of Israel Shaul Mofaz and the head of the security service of the Palestinian autonomy of Mohammed Dahlan.

US President George Bush arrived in Nigeria - the last stage of his trip to African countries. In the city of Kano in the north of the country, thousands of local Muslims came to a demonstration of protest against the visit of Bush, calling the US president the enemy of Islam. Bush arrived in Nigeria from Uganda, where, in negotiations with the President of the country, Yover Museum noted the need to strengthen security in the east of Africa.

The presidents of Ukraine and Poland - Leonid Kuchma and Alexander Kvasnevsky - today in the village of Pavlivka, Volyn region will take part in the opening of memorial plaques to the 60th anniversary of the tragic events of 1943. 60 years ago, as a result of clashes between the Poles and Ukrainians, about 100 thousand people died on Volyn.

NATO Secretary General George Robertson will hold negotiations in Bishkek today with Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev. It is assumed that the main topic of the meeting will be the prospects for cooperation between NATO and Kyrgyzstan. Speaking yesterday in Kazakhstan, Robertson called for closer ties between the countries of Central Asia and NATO in order to combat international terrorism.

Astronomers from the USA and Canada first discovered a planet, which is only a little younger than our universe. The age of this celestial body is almost 13 billion years. The planet is located in the Milky Way - in five thousand six hundred light years from the sun. The newly open planet replenished the list of gas giants - its mass is two and a half times more than the mass of Jupiter.

In Bangladesh today, rescuers found the bodies of three more dead as a result of the collapse of the passenger ferry on the Meghli River. In total, the bodies of 16 victims were found. More than two hundred - saved, more than five hundred people are missing. The ferry sank on the last Tuesday. On board there were 750 people - twice as much. Due to violations of the rules for the operation of passenger ships in Bangladesh, hundreds of people die annually.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. Radio Liberty correspondents Tatyana Voltskaya and Semyon Mirsky, and the press secretary of the Hermitage Larisa Aerova, participate. Andrei Shary: An exhibition of masterpieces of the Hermitage has opened in the museum of the house of disabled people in Paris. The Association of Holders of Tsarist Loan bonds achieves confiscation of exhibits of the exhibition.

In the Yukos archive- under the pretext of finding documents about the Apatit enterprise- employees of the Prosecutor General’s Office open the premises and hack computer equipment, ”said Dmitry Gololobov, deputy head of the legal department of this oil company. Yukos company is not known about any criminal cases regarding its activities, and it has nothing to do with Apatite at all. The leadership of Yukos considers everything that is happening by the rude violation of the law, ”he emphasized.

In Moscow, employees of the TVS television channel, closed by decision of the Ministry of Press on June 22, are not passed into the building of the television center in Ostankin. According to the editor -in -chief of the TVS Evgeny Kiselev, all the work was paralyzed to liquidate the television company and the dismissal of employees, the company's TVS office remained in the office of the TVS, all documents of the company remained.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with politicians and businessmen spoke out against repressive measures in the fight against economic offenses. According to Putin, he is "against cameras and twisting hands." The head of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Arkady Volsky, who was present at the meeting, called on the power ministries not to violate stability in society on the eve of parliamentary and presidential elections.