Inter-African Forces land in Liberia The first units of Nigerian soldiers landed in the Liberian capital of Monrovia. They took control of the international airport, but have not yet ventured onto the city streets. These are the advanced units of the inter-African contingent, whose arrival is intended to stop the bloodshed in the country. The brutal civil strife that has raged there since June has claimed thousands of lives. The peacekeepers were greeted as saviors - with tears in their eyes.

In central Russia, the sunny and hot weather is coming to an end. A cyclone is swirling in the north-west of European Russia and is rapidly gaining strength. Today, short-term rains and thunderstorms will occur during the day at a temperature of +20...+25°C, and tomorrow they will continue under cloudy skies with short breaks. Temperature at night +10...+15оС.

The Ministry of Health and the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate are confused in the testimony The right to drink alcohol while driving still remains a mystery for Russian motorists. The order of the Ministry of Health, which came into force yesterday, prescribing to narcologists what is considered intoxication and what is not, did not bring clarity to this issue.

The largest publishing house ended up in a police chronicle One of the largest Russian publishing houses, Eksmo, known among other things for publishing popular detective stories, itself became a participant in two real crime stories at once. Recently, the Main Investigation Department (GID) of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate opened a criminal case into the activities of the publishing house and its sister company Eksmo-Press.

The jury promises not to acquit the guilty and not to convict the innocent. The first jury trial began yesterday in Moscow. 12 jurors will try 25-year-old Igor Bortnikov, who is accused of robbery, murder and passport theft. According to investigators, in the fall of the year before last, Mr. Bortnikov and three of his friends attacked the owner of a Mercedes car. They wanted to take possession of a foreign car. As a result, the owner of the car was killed. Two of Mr.

Ballets by Jeremiah Rabinovich were danced on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater Eccentric, virtuosic and free of complexes, the New York City Ballet built its tour at the Mariinsky Theater according to the old ballet, strictly hierarchical principle. The second NYCB choreographer was Jeremiah Rabinovich, who rounded his name to Jerome Robbins, and here we are, the second evening devoted to his works.

Severstal's net profit according to Russian accounting standards in the first half of the year amounted to 9.2 million rubles, while during the same period last year the company suffered a loss of 1.2 million rubles. Revenue from product sales is 39 million rubles, which is 58.3% more than in the first half of 2002. The growth of Severstal’s financial indicators is primarily due to market conditions, rather than production factors, believes Fedor Tregubenko from UBS.

The Anglican Church keeps pace with the times The annual meeting of representatives of the dioceses of the Anglican Church in the United States voted yesterday to appoint 56-year-old homosexual Canon W. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire. Today his candidacy must be approved or rejected by the supreme council of one hundred bishops. Robinson has been serving in the diocese for about 30 years, working with young people, fighting AIDS, and helping the poor.

The Sverdlovsk governor no longer has worthy competitors The governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Eduard Rossel, was left without his only real rival in the elections for the head of the region, which are scheduled for September 7. Although yesterday - on the last day of registration - the Sverdlovsk election commission approved former vice-speaker of the Federation Council Andrei Vikharev as a candidate for governor, he is no longer an obstacle to Mr. Rossel. The fact is that Mr.

More than 60 Nizhny Novgorod residents who were planning to relax in Anapa were deceived by the travel company MK Alliance LLC, which, having collected 5.7 thousand rubles per trip from gullible townspeople, never sent them to the Black Sea coast. The other morning, Nizhny Novgorod residents arrived at the Moskovsky station to travel by bus, but found neither a company representative nor a bus there.

The ex-governor of the Kaliningrad region was suspected of exceeding official powers Yesterday, the prosecutor's office of the Kaliningrad region familiarized the lawyers of ex-governor Leonid Gorbenko with the claims against their client in a criminal case initiated regarding the illegal receipt of a loan from Dresdner Bank. Mr. Gorbenko, who is now the head of the State Unitary Enterprise "Kaliningrad Sea Fishing Port", is charged with abuse of power.

The French urge their citizens to give up cars for a while Parisian authorities have figured out how to deal with the environmental crisis in the city. Hot weather and fires have led to significant exceeding of the maximum permissible ozone concentrations. And the police recently announced a temporary speed limit for vehicles - no more than 30 km per hour. Additional patrols have been deployed to the streets to harshly suppress attempts by motorists to rush through.

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Why did the head of the Hyundai concern commit suicide? Yesterday, Chung Mon Hong, co-chairman of one of the largest South Korean corporations, Hyundai, died tragically. The 54-year-old oligarch fell to his death from the 12th floor of the corporation's headquarters in central Seoul. A passionate advocate for restoring Korean unity, Chong met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, and his close business contacts with Pyongyang helped contain tensions over the North's nuclear program.

Congolese commanders arrested for cannibalism Yesterday in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where there is a civil war, on the personal order of the head of the alliance of rebel fronts, Jean-Pierre Bemba (according to the peace plan prepared by the mediators, he should become one of the three vice-presidents in the transitional government), the commander of military operations was arrested in Aituri province, Colonel Freddy Ngaimo and five other commanders.