The United States, Germany and Pakistan regarded as successful first direct elections of the President of Afghanistan, held on Saturday. Advisor to the US President for National Security of Condoliza Rice believes that the elections will be recognized as legitimate. The main election commission of Afghanistan promises to understand complaints about gross violations of the election procedure, which were filed by all the 15th rivals of the current leader of the country Hamid Karzai.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today begins a two -day visit to Iran. Lavrov will meet with his Iranian colleague Kamal Harrasi and the head of the National Security Council Iran Hassan Rouhani. Among the negotiations are Russian -Iranian cooperation in the nuclear region. Moscow repeatedly called on Tehran to comprehensive cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and to comply with obligations under an agreement on non -proliferation of nuclear weapons.

In Egypt on November 25, an international conference on Iraq will be held. Cairo said that the issues of political and economic assistance to Iraq, as well as security problems, will be discussed in the form. The conferences of the conference intend to promote the elimination of disagreements between different Iraqi political and religious groups in order to make the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country.

The turnout of the voters in the presidential election of Afghanistan was massive, ”said representatives of the UN in the country. According to them, during the vote there were certain violations. All 15 rivals of the current Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said they did not recognize the election results. The country's election commission refused to stop the vote, promising that complaints would be considered.

The Israeli and Egyptian rescuers almost completed the disassembly of the hotel blocks in the resort city of Taba, where a powerful explosion occurred on Friday night. Under the ruins, according to them, no one was. During explosions in a tab and two other chicken towns in Egypt, a total of 34 people died. 11 dead - Israelis. 20 bodies are still unidentified. About 150 people are injured.

In the suburbs, there was an attack on the collectors who took away the revenue from the Marktkauf hypermarket from the city of Lyubertsy. The criminal threw them with grenades and opened fire from machine guns. The collectors, having received repeated injuries, managed to lock themselves in an armored car and were able to leave.

In the Western Ukraine, in the city of Lviv, over 10 thousand people welcomed the presidential candidate from the opposition Viktor Yushchenko, who returned to his homeland after treatment in Austria. Speaking at the rally, Yushchenko said he was healthy. In September, Yushchenko felt poorly and went for treatment to the Austrian clinic. Proponents of the politician claim that they tried to poison him.

The turnout of the voters in the presidential election of Afghanistan was massive, ”said representatives of the UN in the country. According to them, during the vote there were certain problems. In particular, complaints that ink, which were marked with the already voted voters were mentioned, were mentioned easily washed off. All 15 rivals of the current Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said they did not recognize the election results due to serious violations.

In Serbia, the former colonel of the Bosnian Serbs Army Lyubish Beara, suspected of committing war crimes, was handed over to the Hague tribunal. He is accused of involvement in the destruction of thousands of Muslim residents of the city of Srebrenits in 1995.

Oleg Vinokurov: In Japan, the penultimate stage of the World Cup in Formula 1 was held. However, almost all the sports results of this competition were already known, which, however, did not prevent our colleague Alexei Kuznetsov in the angle of the Japanese stage to evaluate some prospects for the near future Formula 1.

At least one Palestinian died and the three were injured today as a result of new Israeli airstrikes in the Jabali refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Yesterday, 7 Palestinians died in the gas sector, including activists of the Hamas group. In total, from the beginning of the operation, which lasts more than 10 days, at least 90 Palestinians have been killed - both militants and civilians.

The elderly King Cambodia Noroda Sianuk, who recently renounced the throne, announced that the throne was ready to occupy his son - Prince Norod Sikhamuni. The renunciation of the king caused a political crisis in the country. Prime Minister Cambodia Hong Saint spoke with an urgent call to parliament - to choose a new monarch as soon as possible, warning that otherwise the country could become a republic. Prince Norodoma Sikhamuni is 51 years old.

"Small Bath Readings" - a conference of the magazine "Unaccounted stock" with the support of the German Cultural Center named after Goethe - will be held in Moscow from October 14 to 16 at the Bilingual club in Krivokolny Lane. The conference will open with a round table of the chief editors of intellectual magazines in Russia, Germany and Ukraine. October 15 - reports and debate on the main topic of the conference - “Memory policy.

In Libya, 17 members of the group associated with al -Qaeda were arrested, the country's authorities said. According to them, the arrested - immigrants from Central and Southeast Asia - penetrated illegally in Libya.

In Pakistan, a new terrorist attack is committed - the bomb exploded in the Shiite mosque in the city of Lahor. During the explosion, two guards and an extremist were killed, trying to break into the mosque. Four people are injured. Since the beginning of October, this is the third terrorist attack in the Pakistani province of Penjab.