In the Shata district of Chechnya, the Ural military truck fell into the Argun River. One soldier died, three were injured. The reasons for the accident are clarified. In the Shalinsky district, the armored personnel carrier knocked down the support of the power line on the outskirts of the village of Serezhen-Yurt. Five military personnel are hospitalized with severe injuries. In several settlements, the supply of electricity was interrupted.

Iraqi President Jalyal Talabani expects that he will be able to agree with some rebel groups to stop the violence campaign. The president’s statement says. That he recently met with representatives of seven such groups and that the meeting was attended by officials from the United States. What kind of groups were negotiating with, he did not specify. Today at least 9 people became victims of terrorist attacks and attacks.

In Bremen (Germany) is nearing the end of the World Table Tennis Championship. In the female part of the competition, the Chinese team, who won the 16th champion title, celebrated the victory. In the final, the Chinese women won the rivals from Hong Kong - 3: 1. Bronze medals of the teams of Belarus and Japan.

At least 27 miners died during an explosion in a coal mine in the Chinese province of Shanxi. 5 people are missing missing. The seven miners managed to escape. Chinese coal mines are considered one of the most unsafe in the world. According to official figures, last year more than 8 thousand miners died in the PRC.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert compared President Iran Mahmud Ahmadjad with Adolf Hitler. In an interview with the German newspaper Bilda, published on Saturday, Olmert noted that the Iranian leader speaks in the same language today as Hitler, who, before his coming to power in Germany, proposed to completely destroy the Jewish people.

The guest of Viktor Shenderovich is a People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize, director and teacher Igor Yasulovich.

In the village of Terskoye Mozdok district of North Ossetia, Major of Police shot the deputy commander of the helicopter regiment of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. According to Interfax with reference to a source in local law enforcement agencies, the body of the lieutenant colonel was found on Saturday. The major was detained. He stated that he had committed a murder on the basis of jealousy.

In Novorossiysk, a large ware of ammunition from the Second World War was discovered in Novorossiysk in private households. According to ITAR-TASS in the city department of the Ministry of Emergencies, 68 people are temporarily evicted from a dangerous microdistrict. Jetting, mines, fuses and grenades were removed from the ground.

In Switzerland, a multi-day race of Romdia ended in the calendar of the pro-tour. The fifth, final stage - the race from a separate start of 20 km in Lausanne - won the Australian Cadel Evans. This victory allowed him to win the whole round of Romania, rising from the third to the first place in the overall standings.

China authorities first paid compensation to the family of the deceased in the suppression of producing manifestations in 1989. The mother of a 15-year-old teenager, scored to death by police on Peking Square Tiananmen, received $ 8,700 in the form of "help for the transferred hardships."

In Koryakia, a new earthquake occurred. The strength of the underground shocks exceeded six and a half points on the Richter scale. There are no victims. In the villages of Tilichiki and CFR, the buildings of a diesel power plant, a boiler room, bakery and schools are damaged, - the Liberty Radio Radio in the Russian Ministry of Emergencies told the Radio. Underground tremors occurred in the same area as a powerful earthquake on April 21.

Nigerian rebels said they blew up a mined machine near the oil refinery in the Niger River Delta. The consequences of the explosion are not yet known. The rebels demand that all foreign oil companies leave the country - and above all, Chinese. Last week, the Chairman of the PRC Hu Jintao, during a visit to Nigeria, signed an agreement on participation in the development of Nigerian oil fields.

The NBA continues the series of the first round of the playoffs. Saturdays results: East “Indiana” - “New Jersey” - 88:97 (account in the series - 2: 2) “Miluo” - “Detroit” - 124: 104 (1: 2) West "Memphis" - "Dallas" - 89:94 in overtime (0: 3) "Denver" - "Los Angeles Clippers" - 86: 100 (1: 3)

Deputy Chairman of the Georgian Parliament Mikhail Machavariani

Today, the term of the ultimatum presented to the Serbia authorities with the European Union expires. In March, the EU warned Belgrade that he would interrupt negotiations on converging with Serbia if Ratko Mladich, a former commander of the forces of the Bosniysky Serbs, was not arrested by the end of the day on April 30. There is reason to believe that Mladic, whom the Hague tribunal for war crimes has been looking for for more than 10 years, is hiding somewhere in Serbia.