Abdullah appointed Oroil of Saudi Arabia as the new Minister of Internal Affairs of the kingdom of Prince Mohammed bin Nayf, known as a supporter of a tough line in the fight against Al-Qaeda and international terrorism. Prince Mohammed - the son of the brother of the king, Prince Nayf, who headed the Ministry of the Interior for 37 years - until his death in the summer of this year.

In the northeast of the United States , the consequences of the powerful hurricane Sandy , which claimed the life of 111 people, have not yet been completely eliminated. Hundreds of thousands of residents of New York are left without electricity, up to 40 -a thousand - according to the mayor of Michael Bloomberg - need temporary heated housing, since the air temperature in the city fell to almost zero. Thousands of people are left without energy supply in New York, said Governor Andrew Kuomo.

The Greece Government today presents in parliament a new package of hard economy measures aimed at overcoming the debt crisis. It provides for a reduction in budget expenditures and tax benefits totaling 13 and a half billion euros. The introduction of simplified rules for hiring and dismissal of workers is also proposed. A package of bills will be submitted for voting in parliament on Wednesday.

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The Ukrainian opposition is today the building of the Central Election Commission in Kyiv, protesting against falsifications in the parliamentary elections, held on October 28. The participants of the action announced the message to the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the leadership of the CEC, in which they argue that the frauds of voting results acquired a massive nature. According to the latest data, several thousand people participate in the rally near the CEC building.

Vitaliy Klitschko, leader of the opposition party hit, at today's rally In Kyiv, at a rally near the building of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, the opposition leaders put forward the requirements for the authorities: to cancel the illegal victory of candidates from the ruling Party of Regions in a number of districts in October 28 elections to the Verkhovna Rada and hold guilty. Otherwise, the opposition intends to seek early parliamentary and presidential elections.

The leader of the "Fatherland" Arseniy Yatsenyuk In Ukraine, the United Opposition "Batkivshchina" requires the Central Election Commission to recognize the victory of opposition candidates in 13 majority districts - in accordance with the protocols of precinct election commissions. The leader of the "Fatherland" Arseniy Yatsenyuk did not rule out that he would seek re -election - if the requirements of the opposition are not satisfied.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov plans to meet today in the amman with a delegation of the Syrian opposition. This was announced by a source in the Russian delegation, which is referred, in particular, the ITAR-TASS and RIA Novosti agency. On Monday, visiting Egypt as part of the Middle Eastern Tour, Lavrov said that Moscow has advocated the implementation of international agreements to resolve the crisis in Syria, reached in June at a meeting in Geneva.

On Monday night, relatives of the prisoners of one of the Georgian prisons tried to break through the main gate, brutally beaten one of the guards. The authorities with great difficulty managed to push them off the territory of the correctional institution. The incident has become another evidence of increasing tension in the penitentiary system of Georgia.

In the Sea of Okhotsk, due to bad weather, up to Tuesday, divers divers to the object found at a depth of 25 meters, similar to the missing Amurskaya dry truck, was postponed. According to agencies with reference to rescuers, in the area of the operation a strong wind, the height of the waves reaches two and a half meters. On Sunday, experts confirmed that oil spots found previously from the air on the surface of the water in the Santarsky Islands are formed by diesel fuel.

In Sweden, the charge of complicity in genocide was first instituted. A native of Rwanda, who lives in the Swedish city of Jele, is suspected of the fact that in 1994 he actively participated in the extermination of the Rwandian national minority, the nationality of Tutsi. A 50-year-old man on the international wanted list was arrested in December last year. “This is the most serious crime that the Swedish police ever investigated,” said the state prosecutor Magnus Elining.

Representatives of the security and cooperation organization in Europe, who arrived in the United States to observe the elections, faced an unexpected obstacle: Texas authorities refuse to allow them to polling stations. The United States has been invited to their elections of OSCE observers since 2002. Until now, serious conflicts between observers and officials engaged in the organization of elections have not happened. But this time Texas opposed the presence of observers in polling stations.