Three Dutch military personnel are held by the Libyan authorities in conclusion after an unsuccessful attempt to evacuate two workers from the Netherlands from the country. According to the Holland Ministry of Defense today, last Sunday the helicopter with the military landed near the city of Sirts to take out two Dutch from there. After landing, the military was surrounded by armed people loyal to the leader of the country Muamaru Gaddafi. Workers who also fell into conclusion later released.

American military bus fired in Frankfurt The German prosecutor’s office suspects that the radical Islamist convictions of the shooter could be the motive for yesterday’s attack on US troops in Frankfurt. The 21-year-old Kosovsky Albanian was detained after on Wednesday opened fire on a bus with American soldiers at Frankfurt airport. Two people were killed - the bus driver and one of the passengers. Two more military were injured.

'' Banner 'and' "star 'decide the fate of the prize' 'Poet' ' Marina Timasheva: The Moscow Literary magazine 'Banner' 'came to visit the St. Petersburg Literary magazine' 'Zvezda' 'in order to discuss the further fate of the Poet of the prize. Says Tatyana Voltskaya. Tatyana Voltskaya: The Russian National Prize 'The Poet' 'has been established by the Society for the Promotion of Russian Poetry in 2005, it has been awarded for 6 years.

The court in Pakistan postponed until March 8 a hearing in the case of an employee of the American consulate Raymond Davis, accused of the murder of two Pakistanis. For security reasons, the court takes place in the prison of the city of Lahor, which contains Davis. The defendant claims that he acted in order to self -defense from the robbers who attacked him. The American side insists that he has diplomatic immunity and must be released.

Shrovetide is a holiday with such ancient roots that one thing is known for certain: this is the most delicious week of the domestic calendar. Abroad, however, it is more difficult to judge this. The originality of Russian cuisine is proved by mistakes that the foreign restaurant makes, trying to recreate our feast abroad. Especially when the expensive is given for delicious, and illiterate - for the national one. Worse than others, eminent restaurants of domestic origin.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the investigator from the village of Kushchevskaya was found guilty of attempted fraud and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in a general regime colony. According to the regional prosecutor’s office today, it was established that Alexander Romanchenko suggested an entrepreneur passing in a criminal case, to close him for 300 thousand rubles, although he was not going to terminate the investigation.

UK - Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Pauses as He Speaks to the Media in Norfolk, 17DEC2010 On Sunday at 11 in the morning and 10 pm, on Monday at 7 in the morning and 14 hours after the news

The next film about Adolf Hitler is released today - the adaptation of George Tabori's play “My Struggle”, which tells about the youthful years of the future leader of the National Socialism spent in Vienna. I thought: why are the figures of villains, tyrants and criminals attract such attention? Why is world evil, not world good, the main object of research of art? We’ll talk about this in the program.

In the north-west of Pakistan, as a result of a strong explosion, three police officers and four civilians died. The attack occurred in the Khangua area, near the border with Afghanistan, where Al-Caida militants actively operate. The explosive device laid down in a standing car was driven during the passage of a police car. It is reported that thirty people were injured during the explosion, a dozen buildings were also damaged.

The increase in food prices in Russia in January amounted to 3.1%, more than six times higher than the indicator of 27 countries of the European Union - 0.5%, the Federal Statistics Service said. In the annual calculus - that is, to the level of January 2010 - products in Russia have risen in price by 16.4% against 2.7% in the EU countries.

Chilean miners were raised to the surface in a special capsule In Chile, members of the parliamentary commission, which investigated the circumstances of the accident at the San Jose mine, were responsible for what happened to the owners of the enterprise. Deputies accused the management of the mine of negligence. Earlier, the miners themselves declared the non -compliance of the conditions of their work with an elementary safety requirement. The owners of San Jose, however, deny their guilt.

Four states of the Vishegrad group today criticized the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko - in connection with human rights violations in Belarus. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as well as Germany, which is not part of the group, called on the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to free all political prisoners and observe the main democratic norms.

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