The President of Ukraine returned Yekhanurov to prime minister The war between the President of Ukraine and the Rada continues. For Viktor Yushchenko, the situation is further complicated by the fact that the Rada received part of the presidential powers after constitutional amendments came into force on January 1.

Likud leaves Israeli government The government crisis in Israel is worsening. On Sunday, acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be presented with resignation letters by Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, Health Minister Dani Naveh, Education Minister Limor Livnat and Agriculture Minister Israel Katz. However, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom yesterday still doubted whether to resign or not.

Ten meetings worth 10 billion dollars Vladimir Putin's trip to Kazakhstan on the occasion of the next inauguration of Nursultan Nazarbayev ended yesterday with bilateral negotiations. The press was first allowed to observe part of the negotiations between the delegations of the two countries in large numbers, via live broadcast from the meeting room. And then the journalists were allowed to sign the final documents - there were three in total - and listen to statements by Putin and Nazarbayev.

The American remained human in an inhumane war Hugh Thompson (pictured) died in the United States at the age of 62. During the Vietnam War, he was a helicopter pilot and became famous for saving Vietnamese civilians from their own American soldiers.

On Thursday, Abkhazia was supposed to receive a final response from Tbilisi on the issue of signing the Agreement on International Guarantees of Non-Resumption of War, which has been in preparation for four years.

Today the Mongolian parliament will continue the discussion on the fate of the government that began the day before. A political crisis erupted on Wednesday when representatives of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) left the government coalition with the Rodina-Democracy (RD) union. With the departure of ten ministers out of 18, the work of the cabinet was paralyzed.

Yesterday, the Lithuanian Seimas at a plenary session adopted a statement in which it called on Russia to cooperate in the investigation of the events of January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. 15 years ago, Soviet military units using tanks, armored vehicles and firearms stormed the Vilnius TV tower and the building of the Lithuanian Radio and Television. These objects were defended by civilians. As a result of the clash, 14 townspeople were killed and hundreds of unarmed people were injured.

90-year-old ex-dictator of Chile Augusto Pinochet, who ruled the country from 1973 to 1990, has been conditionally released from house arrest on bail of 10 million pesos ($19,000). Lawyers for the general, accused of political repression, corruption and financial fraud, barely managed to scrape together this amount, although he himself owns accounts worth $27 million. After all, Pinochet’s funds remain frozen.

Russia is tired of defending Iranian President Ahmadinejad Russia, which until now has played the role of Iran's main lawyer on the international stage, seems to have begun to lose patience. Russia's position on the Iranian nuclear file has become tougher. If earlier Moscow considered it premature to transfer Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council, then yesterday Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov already admitted this possibility. For Iranians, this is a worrying sign.

Ariel Sharon's Kadima (Forward) party, which he created last November, has been described as a one-man party. According to many political scientists in Israel, the newly created centrist association will collapse immediately after Sharon retires. However, a poll conducted by the Haaretz newspaper shows that if parliamentary elections were held today, Kadima, led by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, would receive 44 of the 120 parliamentary seats.