The court in Switzerland recognized the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and her husband guilty of money laundering and sentenced everyone to a six -month imprisonment - conditionally. The spouses were ordered to return the Pakistan to the Pakistan government, which were illegally transferred to accounts in Swiss banks. Benazir Bhutto lives outside Pakistan, where she is threatened with arrest.

On August 12, 62 Antiquity monuments in Greece will be open from nine in the evening to one in the morning, so that architecture and sculpture could be admired in the light of the full moon. In 57 of these places, including the Athens Acropolis and the temple of Poseidon in Sunion, night concerts will take place. The entrance is free. A new museum dedicated to the Holocaust will open in Budapest.

Al -Qaeda creates its own network in the Palestinian territories to organize attacks on Israelis, the report said, which Israel sent to the UN Security Council. After 2001, - the document is indicated, “Al -Qaeda members with foreign passports tried to penetrate the territory of Israel several times. Several Palestinians associated with this terrorist organization were arrested.

In the United States, members of the Supreme Council of the local Anglican (Protestant) church postponed the statement of the priest-homosexual in the dignity of the bishop. The decision was made at a meeting of the Council held in Mennapolis. Priest Jin Robinson is suspected of "unworthy behavior." Previously, his candidate was approved by the Council on Sunday. The statement of a homosexual in the dignity of a bishop can lead to a split among American Anglican.

The number of victims of unprecedentedly strong forest fires in Portugal reached 11-and. In the area of the city of Oleirush, the bodies of two people were found today. The elderly man, apparently, suffocated in smoke, and the woman died with burns. On Monday, the authorities of Portugal declared the whole country with a distress zone. The cause of fires was the unusually hot weather, which stands throughout Europe.

In Montreal, the next tennis tournament of the Masters series started yesterday. Russian Mikhail Yuzhny, in his first fight, was defeated by Rainer Shuttler from Germany. The failure befell, among others, also the Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten, who lost to the little -known Canadian Sebastian Laroz. The first racket of the competition, American Andre Agassi, prevailed over another representative of Canada - Federicoma Niomayer.

The Gorky Automobile Plant resumes the supply of cars to Iraq, interrupted after the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime. The Iraqi side confirmed that the implementation of contracts signed before the war will be continued, ”the head of Gaza Alexei Barantsev told reporters today. The contract concluded in 2001 provides for the supply of five thousand Volga vehicles worth 44 million euros to the Baghdad taxiii.

The United States give the beginning of an international peacekeeping operation in Liberia, ”said the representative of the White House Scott McClellan. He again emphasized that Liberia President Charles Taylor should immediately leave his post. American warships patrolling the library coast are ready to provide all the necessary support to peacekeepers from Western Africa, who began to arrive in Liberia. The US command does not exclude that American ground units can land on library territory.

The United Nations Provisional Administration in Kosovo announced a award of 50 thousand euros for information about the killer of an international police officer who died last Sunday. The Indian policeman was killed by a sniper on the highway in the northern part of the region, when he was traveling in a car with a British colleague.

In the Naursky district of Chechnya near the village of Kalinovskaya, two military personnel were killed. Their bodies with gunshot wounds were found in the head a few hours after the soldiers were put up in the cordon of the training area. In Grozny, three law enforcement officers were injured as a result of the explosion of the landmine. The explosion occurred last night, when the police examined the area of the street, where another explosive device had just worked.

Jan Runov , New York: the American priest of the Anglican Bishopal Church, Gene Robinson, elected by the parishioners of the New Hampshire by his main shepherd, is an open homosexual. According to the rules of this branch of Christianity, the chosen bishop must be approved in the dignity on the general cathedral of the episcopal church.

Arkady Dubnov , Kuala Lumpur: Today, on August 5, Vladimir Putin ends the state visit to Malaysia, and is not hidden surrounded by the Russian president, which is very pleased with the results of the visit, both its material and virtual results. The first includes 9 documents signed here. 6 of them relate to the third Russian-Malaysian business forum that took place today in Kuala Lumpur.

The Chairman of the Government of Chechnya Anatoly Popov today was appointed acting President of the Chechen Republic. The head of the Chechnya administration Akhmad Kadyrov, who signed the decree on the appointment of Popov, said that he was going on vacation until October 5 - that is, before the election of the president of the republic. Yesterday Kadyrov officially became the tenth candidate for the presidency of Chechnya.

Liberia President Charles Taylor, contrary to his own promises, is not going to leave the country after resignation and accept Nigeria’s proposal for asylum. As the representative of the Nigeria government said today, Taylor demands that at first the International Tribunal removes his charges of war crimes. The tribunal, sitting in Sierra Leone, brought the president of Liberia to the lists of war criminals-for the atrocities committed during the 10-year civil war.

The observer of the newspaper Kommersant Arina Borodina talks with the host of the Events Information Program on the TVC Stanislav Kucher and the leading talk show “The Basic Instinct” on the “First Channel” Svetlana Sorokina. Arina Borodina: In this program, we meet with people who make television. Our guest today is the host of the Events Information Program to the "TVC" Stanislav Kucher. Before starting our conversation, I would like to ask our listeners a question.