In the American state of Texas, a citizen of Mexico is executed on charges of rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl. 38-year-old Umberto Lely Garcia introduced a deadly injection after the US Supreme Court and the Governor of Texas Rick Perry refused to delay the verdict. Earlier, the administration of the President of Barack Obama expressed concern that, by the execution of the death sentence, the United States will violate international agreements.

Tristan Banon The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominic Struss-Cannu , may have to appear before the court not only in the USA, but also in his homeland in France. On July 4, the French journalist and writer Tristan Banon sued Dominic Struss-Kanna for trying to rape in 2003. On July 8, the Paris prosecutor's office began a preliminary investigation. Dominic Stross Cannes, for his part, is preparing to file a lawsuit against a journalist for slander.

In Tbilisi on Friday evening, a silent action of the solidarity of photographers working for Georgian and foreign media took place. According to Interfax, about 20 reporters participated in the action, who expressed solidarity with colleagues detained on July 7. As already reported, the prosecution of the detainees must be brought in in the coming hours.

Inna Khodorkovskaya Inna Khodorkovskaya gave her first video interview in the last eight years. The prisoner's wife answered the questions of the Russian BBC service in the intermission of the concert held in Strasbourg in support of Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and other political prisoners. There was no correspondent in the frame, and the questions were represented by the credits. Inna Khodorkovskaya was clearly not preparing for an interview and the camera caused her embarrassment.

Israel refused to enter two missile defenseists - US citizens, ”the Israeli border service said today. According to information agencies, activists intended to participate in shares at Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. Several hundred supporters of the Palestinians are going to arrive there in order to arrange the manifestation of protest, and then go to the western coast of the Jordan.

Dominic Stross-Kan in the New York Court In Paris, the prosecutor's office today began a preliminary investigation of the case of sexual harassment, presumably committed by the former head of the International Monetary Fund by Dominik Struss-Kan. A complaint to law enforcement agencies was addressed by a French journalist and writer Tristan Banon. She claims that in 2003, Strauss-Kan tried to rape her when she came to interview him. Banon states that then she was persuaded not to sue.

Hugo Chavez appears to the people about his illness Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, apparently, is sick with intestinal cancer, the American newspaper Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources familiar with the situation. Venezuelan official representatives do not report the exact nature of Chavez's disease. In a recent television, he himself admitted that a cancer tumor was removed in Cuba.

The military collegium of the Supreme Court of Russia received a complaint about the sentence of the former colonel of the foreign intelligence service to Alexander Poteev, convicted of issuing Russian agents to the US authorities. At the end of June, the Moscow District Military Court sentenced Poteev to 25 years in prison on charges of treason and desertion. The court was in absentia, since Pothev is outside of Russia.

In the Czech Cultural Center, a book entitled "Next to the Alcoholic. Confession of the wife" of the popular Swedish journalist Katerina Janouh, TV presenter, author of articles and books on family problems. Katerina Czech by birth, daughter of a physicist, public figure and founder of the Charter-77 Frantishek Foundation Janoukh. About the problems of life with an alcoholic, understandable to women of all nationalities, Katerina Janouh told Radio Liberty. - Is the book based on real events?

Fire and smoke in the place of the explosion On the evening of July 7, there was a series of explosions in the territory of military warehouses located in the south of the city of Abadan. The city of Abadan with a population of about 50 thousand people is 20 kilometers west of the capital of Turkmenistan. This is one of the industrial centers of the camp.

In Karachi in the south of Pakistan, the police were given an order - to shoot without warning at all armed people who are not related to security forces. In the largest city in Pakistan, armed clashes have been going on for three days, more than 60 people have died. The exact causes of bloodshed are established, but, according to the authorities, we are talking about the confrontation of supporters of two political parties based on various ethnic communities.

Headquarters of Gazprom Ukraine does not plan to mergers Naftogaz of Ukraine with the Russian Gazprom. This was stated today by President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych at a press conference in Kyiv. That Zhev Rema Yanukovych noted that Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukraine are planned to participate in joint projects, for example, in the modernization of the Ukrainian gas transportation system. Kyiv is seeking a revision of the price of Russian gas, laid down in a long -term gas contract.

The UK intends to expand the list of Iranian officials in respect of which restrictions on entry into the country will apply. This was stated today by the British Foreign Minister William Hage, emphasizing that measures will concern not only members of the Iranian government, but also specialists responsible for the Iranian nuclear program. According to Hayig, Britain coordinates his actions with the USA and Canada.