President Bush besieged his deputy The White House is determined to punish Saddam, but criticism both at home and abroad appears to be worrying the US leadership. In recent days, the Bush administration has moderated its statements about the inevitability of war with Iraq. “I am a patient person,” the president said.

Yesterday in Moscow, one of the technical employees of the Iraqi Embassy, ​​56-year-old Awad Kerim, who disappeared a week ago, was found. The news of the missing foreigner came from a hospital in the capital, where he was taken with a traumatic brain injury. As it turned out, on August 24, Mr. Kerim and a friend, also an employee of the Iraqi Embassy, ​​were relaxing in a bar on Mantulinskaya Street, where they met a young girl.

All emergency services in the Khasansky district of the Primorsky Territory were put on high alert yesterday due to the approach of Typhoon Rusa, which had already swept over the territory of South Korea. There, according to local authorities, as a result of the rampant disaster, at least 14 people were killed and another ten are listed as missing.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the North Caucasus District ordered the Ulyanovsk Aviastar-SP plant, which specializes in the production of Tu-204 passenger aircraft and An-124 military transport aircraft, to pay 297 million rubles to the Moscow holding company “New Commonwealth” by the end of October. A year and a half ago, the holding invested these funds in the Ulyanovsk enterprise as part of an investment agreement, under which New Commonwealth was promised a 26% stake in Aviastar-SP.

The import of beer into Belarus will soon become an excise activity. Official sources explain the introduction of excise taxes by the need to protect domestic producers. The issuance of general licenses for the import of beer has already been cancelled, now the licenses will be one-time. Moreover, you can only get them for a batch of beer with a volume of at least 10 thousand deciliters. The cost of such a license will be about 20 million Belarusian rubles (approximately 10.8 thousand dollars).

Products from biologically modified crops will be labeled Starting September 1, producers of food products made from biologically modified soybeans, corn and other crops are required to warn buyers that they are dealing with the creation of genetic engineering. Yesterday, the order of the Chief Sanitary Doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, came into force on the need to apply special markings to the packaging of goods containing genetically modified sources (GMI).

The commander of the joint group of forces (UGV) in the North Caucasus, Vladimir Moltenskoy, created a special commission to determine the causes of the death of the Mi-24 attack helicopter that crashed on Saturday afternoon in Chechnya near the mountain village of Meskhety.

The dream of Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has come true - Ronaldo will play for the Royal Club. At the last moment before the transfer window closed, Inter Milan finally sold the top scorer of the World Cup, although not for 100 million euros as planned. The fact that Inter does not need Ronaldo has been known for a long time. The name of the potential buyer was also no secret.

The dispute over ownership of capital real estate continues The process of dividing real estate in the capital between Moscow and federal authorities, which was postponed during the summer holidays, has resumed. Today the Moscow Arbitration Court must resolve the issue of the legality of registering ownership of immovable historical and cultural monuments in the name of the capital government.

The government will begin taking care of the school next year. For 20 million schoolchildren and 4 million students, the holidays ended yesterday. The Day of Knowledge fell on a weekend this year; on Sunday, children were invited only to the festive assembly and class hours, as well as to present flowers to the first teacher. Even well-known politicians broke the established tradition and did not rush to meet with schoolchildren on September 1.

World leaders arrive at Earth Summit The Earth Summit has reached its climax as heads of state and government arrive in South Africa. Among those already in Johannesburg are not only Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, but also the odious leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. The day after tomorrow, the day the summit ends, the number of visiting leaders will reach 109 people.

The Americans “survived” the Russian team from Rieza It was not an easy start for the Russian women's team at the Volleyball World Championships in Germany. In the opening match, Nikolai Karpol’s students beat the Dominican Republic team, not without incident, 3:1 (25:11, 21:25, 25:18, 25:18), and in the second round match of the preliminary competition in Group “C” they lost to the national team USA -- 2:3 (25:22, 22:25,23:25, 25:18, 8:15).

And Kafelnikov dropped out forever At the US Open Tennis Championships in New York, after six days of play, only Elena Bovina, out of 16 Russians who started in singles tournaments, continued to perform. All our other tennis players dropped out of the race without making it to the quarterfinal stage. Late yesterday evening Moscow time, Bovina met with Italian Francesca Schiavvone in the fourth round match.

In Moscow this will take two to three months. If by law In the last issue of our newspaper, Minister of Nationalities Affairs Vladimir Zorin spoke about the position of the authorities in resolving the migration problem.

Don't fight Iraq, create a Palestinian state Heated discussions at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in the Danish town of Helsinguer revealed many disagreements within the EU. Formally, most of these issues will be raised at the Brussels summit on September 30. But today the main thing is obvious: many key international problems in European capitals are seen completely differently than in America.