In the south of Afghanistan, the body of a German hostage was discovered in the province of Vardak. It is believed that he died of a heart attack. The Taliban stole two citizens of Germany and five Afghans on Wednesday. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that there was no reliable information about the position of the second German hostage, which remains in the hands of the Taliban.

Russian academics opposed the intervention of the Russian Orthodox Church "in all spheres of public life." In a letter to the President of Russia, scientists expressed concern to the ever -increasing clericalization of society. This was stated on the air of "Echo of Moscow" one of the authors of the appeal Laureate of the Nobel Prize Vitaly Ginzburg.

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In the north-west of Pakistan, according to updated data, at least 19 Islamic extremists were killed in battle. According to the Pakistani command, the militants tried to attack army posts, but were discarded. Aviation took part in hostilities. In North Vasiristan, on the border with Afghanistan. Islamic militants-allies of the Taliban actively operate.

In Kamchatka in a car accident, 4 people were killed, two were injured. Among the dead are a girl at the age of one year. The accident occurred at about 23 hours local time near the village of Nikolaevka on the highway between Petropavlovsky and sanatorium-resort zone of Paratunk. Two cars traveling towards a car collided at high speed.

In China, only in the last week more than 150 people became victims of floods and mud landslides. Hundreds of thousands are evacuated. After pouring rains in June, half of the regions of China was in distress. Hundreds of people died, thousands of houses were destroyed. This week, the situation was aggravated due to powerful thunderstorms. In the north-west of China, on the border with Kazakhstan, a strong earthquake has occurred today.

About 60 people became victims of floods and landslides in China. Over a million people are evacuated. The element destroyed thousands of houses. The current rain season is the hardest for China over many years. Since the beginning of summer, strong floods have struck half the country, killing hundreds of people.

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In France, 20 Polish pilgrims were killed, 20 were injured (many are hard). Six more people have not yet been found. The bus with the Poles returning from the pilgrimage to the Catholic shrine Notre Dam de la Valett turned over on the mountain road and fell into the river. The disaster occurred in the Alps near Grenoble.

On Sunday, the second stage ended in Italy and Spain. As a result, the places in the final tournament, which will be held from August 7 to 12 in Berlin, received from Europe the teams of Serbia, Hungary and Germany, as housewives of the competition. The teams of the USA, Canada, Australia and China will compose competition. On the last day, the Russians lost to the Hungarians - 5:13 and took the last place in a group collected in the Spanish town of Portagliet.

After the release of the news - the "Historical Calendar". Then, in the review of Pressing Plus, we will discuss the events of the Youth European Football Championship in Austria. In the second half of the hour - the program of "Voices of the Big City". Today you will hear the voice of St. Petersburg. At the end of the hour - the magazine "Russian Life" visiting the program "Read the magazines."

In the south of Germany, on the site of the former Nazi concentration camp, Floressenburg today was opened by the Memorial Museum. The ceremony was attended by President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, his wife, children and the president’s brother. In this camp, from December 1944 to April 1945, was Andrei Yushchenko - father of Viktor Yushchenko.

In the Irkutsk region, eight suspects in the attack on the camp of ecologists in Angarsk were detained. Law enforcement agencies insist on the version of hooliganism for robbery. However, the President of the Union for chemical security Lev Fedorov in an interview with Radio Liberty said that the attack was clearly extremist. Ecologists set up a tent camp on the shore of the Elovsky reservoir in protest against the processing of nuclear waste at the Angarsk electrolysis plant.

The presenter Ivan Tolstoy raises sharp, often painful, issues of the Russian cultural process: are the established stereotypes are true, are the assessments, are these entertaining and unfairly forgotten by certain cultural figures?

In Poland, near the city of Poznan, a Russian bus rolled over with tourists traveling from Moscow to Paris. According to Interfax with reference to the Internet site of the Polish newspaper Vygroys, there were 47 passengers on the bus, of which The injuries and injuries as a result of the accident were received by 26 people. In serious condition - five passengers. All victims were taken to hospitals. The Polish police investigate the causes of the accident.