In Pakistan, militants fired at one of the support points of security forces in the South Vaziristan province near the border with Afghanistan. As a result, five military personnel died, seven more were injured. According to command, the militants suffered losses. However, the exact number of those killed and wounded among them is unknown.

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In November 2007, Russia continued to maintain first place in the world in terms of oil production - about 9.4 million barrels per day, the Federal Statistics Service said. This is 5% more than that of Saudi Arabia, the largest in OPEC of the producer of raw materials. In general, in January-November 2007, oil production in Russia increased by 2.3% compared to last year’s indicator-up to 449.1 million tons. Its share in the total volume of Russian exports for this period amounted to 34.5%.

In the capital of Ingushetia Nazran, unknown, opening fire from machine guns, seriously wounded the police officer. The victim - the acting chief of the temporary detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia Magomed Torshov - was taken to the hospital, RIA Novosti reports. The search for attackers is being conducted.

During the audit, the CEC of Russia revealed that out of 400 thousand signatures collected in support of Mikhail Kasyanov, more than 15 percent are invalid. This was stated by the secretary of the Central Election Commission Nikolai Konkin. The centriezbirk should today complete the check of signature sheets collected for the registration of Kasyanov as a candidate in the presidential election. By law, “marriage” is not should exceed 5 percent.

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in Kenya with an intermediary mission. Annan called the President of Kenya Mvai Kibaki and the leader of the opposition Rail one to start negotiations as soon as possible to find a way out of the political crisis. The situation in Kenya worsened after the presidential election, held on January 27. The opposition does not recognize their official results according to which Kibaki won. Riots broke out in the country, in which at least 650 people died.

In Nazran, a car with military personnel was fired on Tuesday. Information agencies with reference to law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia report at least one deceased and three wounded. The searches of the attackers are underway. On the same day, an explosion occurred in Nazran in the car, the driver died. Details are unknown.

The Russian authorities are trying to convict Mikhail Kasyanov in tacks in the collection of voters' signatures Dmitry Medvedev, the Civil Forum and Civil Society Fall of Stock Indexes on Exchanges in different countries of the films of two Russian directors fell into the Oscar of the Oscar of the Day - British historian Eric Hobsbaum

A laptop was stolen from the car of the British Ministry of Defense, containing personal data about 600 thousand people. This was announced by Minister of Defense ten Brown. In memory of the stolen computer, information was stored about employees of the Ministry of Defense, as well as potential candidates for military service under the contract. Recently, a number of incidents with personal data stored in electronic form have occurred in the UK.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry put forward the conditions for the resumption of the work of the British Council offices in the Russian regions. Moscow requires London to return to cooperation with the FSB in the fight against terrorism and negotiations on facilitating the visa regime. Contacts in these areas were frozen after Moscow refused to issue Andrei Lugovoi, whom the British authorities consider the main suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

Alexander Genis: The death of Robert Fisher brought the line under his unfortunate life, but could not cross out the glorious past. I remember every day his Reikyavik triumph. This picture was too romantic: the struggle of a well -functioning sovereign machine with a half -point, lonely genius of byronous temperament. Whatever says Bobby Fisher, for the people of my generation, he remains a hero. Listen to the report-nocrologist of our Washington observer Vladimir Abarinov.

Two films shot by Russian directors are nominated for the Academy Academy Academy of Oscar. This is the painting "12" Sergey Mikhalkov, nominated by Russia, and the Mongol tape Sergey Bodrov, representing Kazakhstan. They are nominated in the category "Best Foreign Film". The leading in the number of nominations - 8 each - the paintings "the elderly here are not a place" of the Cooen brothers and "there will be blood" Paul Thomas Anderson.

The operational shooting of events on November 25 is about an hour, so the court decided to limit himself to witnesses In the World Court of the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg, the case of the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the United Civil Front Olga Kournosova, who was one of the organizers of the marsh of disagreed in St. Petersburg on November 25, began consideration.