In Spain, 4 more suspects in involvement in the attacks on March 11 in Madrid were arrested. Now, under arrest in this case, there are 14 people. Seven detainees are Moroccans, possibly associated with the al -Qaeda terrorist group. On Wednesday, a memorial service for the dead will be held in Madrid. The US Secretary of State Colin Powell will take part in it.

Great Britain closed the embassy building in Algeria for security reasons. All employees are temporarily relocated to the hotel. The representative of the British diplomatic mission in Algeria said that these measures are not related to any specific threat, but dictated by the situation. In Algeria, where for more than ten years, radical Islamists have been fighting for power, in April the presidential election will be held.

Former head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Alexander Voloshin, will head the board of directors of the RAO UES of Russia. This was announced today by the chairman of the board of the company Anatoly Chubais. According to him, for the appointment of Voloshin it is not required to amend the charter of RAO UES.

The leader of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai sent one and a half thousand military personnel to the city of Herat, where about a hundred people died on Sunday between the collisions between warring groups. The battles in Herat began immediately after the Minister of Civil Aviation of Afghanistan Mirweis Sadyk was killed in the city center as a result of an armed attack. He was the son of Ismail Khan - the Governor of the Province of Herat.

Marina Katys: The Forbidden Zone program has already talked about the fact that several criminal cases against veterinarians have been instituted in Moscow at the initiative of the state tank. Doctors who have used ketamine as anesthesia in pets operations are charged with Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal sale of narcotic drugs on large sizes." To date, the situation around the drug Ketamin has not essentially changed.

In South Korea, another focus of infection with the bird flu virus was discovered - the second since the beginning of February. According to the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Karatin was introduced on the poultry farm and 16 thousand chickens were destroyed. The epidemic of "bird flu" covered ten countries of Asia. In Vietnam and Thailand, they infected the "bird GRPP" and 24 people died.

British Foreign Minister Jack Stri condemned the murder of the Hamas spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin, calling him "unacceptable." The US State Department called on the parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to restraint. Such calls followed from Australia and Japan.

In Arkhangelsk, the investigation of the explosion in a residential building came to the conclusion about intentional damage to gas systems in several buildings. According to the deputy prosecutor of the Arkhangelsk region, Yuri Shperling, the damage was in both in the collapsed house and in the other two. On March 16, 58 people died in Arkhangelsk in an explosion in a house on the Avenue of Soviet Cosmonauts.

On Monday, two Finnish entrepreneurs were killed in Baghdad. According to the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, businessmen who came to the Iraqi capital for negotiations on a possible contract were shot dead. Earlier on the same day, 6 employees of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps were wounded as a result of the explosion of a mined car in Baghdad. The terrorist, who has acted as an explosive device, died.

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NATO Secretary General JAAP de Hop Scheffer warned the Albanian majority of Kosovo about the inadmissibility of violence to achieve his political goals. He again called to put an end to clashes between Kosovo Albanians and a Serbian minority, during which 28 people were killed. Over three and a half thousand Serbs were forced to leave their homes. Yesterday, the funeral of two Albanian children took place in Kosovo, whose death provoked ethnic clashes. Additional NATO forces arrive in the edge.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg - the information of the Russian media information - agreed to consider the Yukos case. This was announced by the Canadian lawyer of the former head of the Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky Robert Amsterdam. According to him, the court should pay special attention to the arrest of Khodorkovsky, as well as procedural violations during the investigation.

NATO Secretary General JAAP de Hop Scheffer said that the Albanian majority in Kosovo should not resort to violence in an effort to achieve their political goals. He again called to put an end to clashes between the Kosovo Albanian majority and the Serbian minority in Kosovo. Yesterday, the funeral of two Albanian children passed, whose death provoked ethnic clashes. As a result of these clashes, 28 Serbs were killed, thousands remained homeless. Additional NATO forces arrive in the province.

More than two hundred thousand Palestinians participated today in the gas sector in the funeral of the leader of the Hamas group Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was killed as a result of an Israeli missile strike. Mass protests took place on the western bank of the Jordan. Helicopters released Yassin missiles when he left the mosque. At least 3 people died.

Russia will deploy in Serbia two camps for refugees from Kosovo, a thousand people each, ”the head of the Ministry of Emergencies Sergei Shoigu, who was in Belgrade, said today. After negotiations with the leadership of Serbia, Shoigu said that in the coming days the hospital of the Ministry of Emergencies will open here, which will take 600 people a day.