Masud Barzani The Islamic state in Iraq and Levante, associated with Al-Qaeda, took responsibility for attacking Iraqi Kurdistan. On September 29, militants attacked the headquarters of security forces in the capital of Iraqi Kurdista Irbile, killed at least six people. The statement of this organization posted today on the Internet says that the attack was carried out in response to threats from the head of Kurdistan Masud Barzani.

In the capital of Libya, Tripoli, the U.S. Special Forces unit captured one of the militants' commanders associated with Al-Qaeda Nazikh Abdul-Khamid al-Roukai. This person, better known as Abu Anas al-Libi, is suspected of involvement in the organization of explosions of American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya 15 years ago, whose victims were 224 people. The operation of the capture of al-Libi was carried out on Saturday. This was announced by the representative of the Pentagon.

Yana Malamud Smith. "My father is a book", a fragment of the cover Alexander Genis: Children of writers are not sweet. Often they live in the shadow of their fathers and suffer a lot from this. The more interesting and more acute their memories. The presenter KO ACh Marina Efimova tells about the books of writing. Marina Efimova: It is not difficult to guess that the reckless devotion of writers and thinkers with high art is poorly combined with respectable devotion to wives and children.

In the UK, an agency for the fight against organized crime was created, whose employees will become more than four thousand people. The new organization is considered the successor to the previously disbanded control of organized crime and is endowed with additional powers. The agency receives the right to concentrate secret data from numerous sources and send police units in any region of the country to combat the groups of drug addicts, corrupt officials, hackers and people's traders.

The evacuation of residents from flooded houses in Khabarovsk Residents of the Seryshevsky district of the Amur Region, who suffered from a flood, say that instead of their children, the children of local officials went to the sea, the Echo of Moscow reports. According to the "Russian newspaper", investigators understand the situation.

At a rally in Irkutsk. Photo by Ekaterina Vertinskaya. In Irkutsk, doctors, teachers, pensioners, and employees of industrial enterprises were protested today. The regional trade union brought people to the rally in defense of the rights of workers.

Leonid Razvozhaev On Monday, the Moscow City Court extended the arrest to activist Leonid Razvoszhaev until the sixth of February sixth, who takes place in the case of riots in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow. According to the RAPSI agency, the court granted the petition of the investigator who was afraid that, being free, Razvozhaev would be able to hide from the court or influence witnesses and victims. The defense asked the court to release Razvozhaev under house arrest or secured.

One of the Japanese sisters In the theater "School of Dramatic Art", the Russian premiere of "Three Sisters" Orizi Hirata took place. This is one of the productions of the Seinendan troupe, made as part of a joint with the University of Osaka Project "performances with the participation of robots." The Russian viewer watch Chekhov in the production of a Japanese director is difficult, but exciting.

Iraq collided with a flash of violence In Baghdad, 22 people died and hundreds were injured as a result of explosions that thundered in the capital of Iraq on Monday evening. According to Reuters, these were six explosions coordinated among themselves and they occurred mainly in the Shiite regions of the city. It is noted that an explosion also occurred in the Sunni district of Door. Recently, Iraq has encountered an increase in violence.

Promotion in support of the arrested Greenpeace activists in London: among the demonstrators - musician Damon Elborne and actor Jud Law Greenpeace activists on October 7 again hold pickets in Moscow at the building of the Russian company Gazprom - in support of the arrested ecologists and the team of the Arctic Sanraise vessel, as well as against oil production in the Arctic.

On Sunday, police officers, with the support of special forces in the Ryazan region, held a raid to identify drug crime in the city night club "House of Culture". On Monday night, numerous witnesses of what was happening began to tell on their pages on the networks "VKontakte" and "Facebook" about the obvious abuse of authority by the police during this raid. From these messages it follows that the police used batons, stampers. More than others, according to eyewitnesses, Ilya Trekhin suffered.