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Oskandalivshihsya century British Lords denied the right to judge others

One of the oldest institutions of the United Kingdom – House of Lords (upper house of Parliament of Great Britain) has lost its key features and the privileges of the crown – a supreme court of the country. Henceforth, these will provide a recent decision by the High Court of Parliament, United Kingdom. Serves as the highest appellate body, it will hold its first meeting in October. Withdrawal of the House of Lords, one of its historical privileges was a continuation of policies of the current Labor government to dismantle the upper chamber of parliament.

hold socialist views on society, Labor suspected refer to non-House of Lords, where the people are of aristocratic titles ITAR-TASS notes.

House of Lords continually served as the highest court in the kingdom over the last 610 years. On behalf of its decision to take 12 of Lords judges, who represented 12 of the Christian apostles. According to tradition, in its composition elected Lords, which were longer than the other members of the House.

Lords judges were historic title – Lords appeal claims on a continuous service. There was a special tradition that accompanied their work, which included a loud cry Secretary of the House: Free shop, which meant the beginning of the meeting of the Court of Appeal. It was accompanied by a solemn procession of Lords judges inside the chamber.

Now the Supreme Court leaves the House of Lords and moved to another building, located opposite the Palace of Westminster in London.

India seeks to naval independence from Russia

India planned in the coming decade to increase its Navy for 100 warships. Captain Alok Bhatnagar, head of the naval program of the Ministry of Defense of India on Thursday said that at present at the shipyards of the country built 32 warships and submarines. Work on a further 75 ships, including aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates and amphibious, will start in 10 years.

Information k2kapital , the official Delhi worries behind regional naval dominance in Beijing – China has three times more warships than in India, and the size of the Chinese fleet of more than five times. Concern to India is also building ports in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, offering the Chinese ships of space for parking and potentially strengthening the position of China in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea.

But India has one of the fastest growing fleets in the world. He is the fifth largest in the world – among them some 120 ships. On weekends, she withdrew to the sea trials nuclear submarine built in local shipyards, based on Russian technology, and was among the few countries with such weapons.

Car bomb leaves 46 injured in house Police Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – A van bomb exploded Wednesday night near the home of the Civil Guard barracks in the Spanish city of Burgos, slightly injuring 46 people, an act that the authorities attributed to ETA, and that shows his ability attack despite the recent downturn. Part of the facade of the building in which 120 people were sleeping, 41 of them children, collapsed after the explosion, which occurred shortly after 0400 hours local (0200 GMT) without there being a call notice. Most of those injured suffered cuts and wounds by the scope of crystals. The 38 people were taken to hospital after the blast were discharged during the morning, according to the spokesperson for emergencies. The damage was extensive in the area, as shown the first images The house barracks, home to the Civil Guard officers along with their families, was evacuated after being virtually destroyed by the powerful explosion in a van with false registration, according Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, it could have been stolen in France. The head of the Interior refused to speculate on the amount of explosives used, but said it was a bomb very important that sought to cause death, as he described the action of failed . It is a horrendous attack that (…) is not directed only to those who work in Guardia Civil (…) is aimed at families, which gives it a particularly scoundrel, Rubalcaba said at a press conference after visiting the Burgos in place of the attack. This ETA's last action underscores the ability of the armed band even though the government stressed its weakness following recent setbacks against the police leadership. They are murderers, wild and crazed, and that no makes them stronger, but, undoubtedly, makes them more dangerous, the minister said. contempt of the Spanish The president of the Government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, said that the perpetrators of the attack very soon end up in jail.

Elections to the Moldovan Parliament completed shooting on the site: communist wounded two members of the opposition

At one polling station in Moldova was an altercation, which ended in shooting, one man wounded, passes Interfax .

scandal arose at the site in the village Singera near Chisinau. As witnesses told the agency, its participants were representatives of the Communist Party and the opposition Alliance Our Moldova.

At one point, the representative of the Communists pulled out a pistol and fired the shots. Shot in the leg was Stefan Bumba – son of the head of the local branch of Our Moldova. He was hospitalized.

Press Secretary country's Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel Alla Melek confirmed that the incident took place: We know that one man shot at another personal handgun that he kept on legal grounds.

At the same time, it is a flagrant violation, as well as all owners of arms warned that the election can not come with a weapon – she said.

Ex-Liberian president acknowledged: his country has been distributed cannibalism, but he was not involved

Former President of Liberia Charles Taylor has rejected accusations of cannibalism. As ITAR-TASS, Taylor testified at the meeting of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, where he accused of war crimes.

It is believed that the former Liberian leader was one of the main instigators of civil war in Sierra Leone (1991-2001), financed by illegal diamond mining, which are sold through Taylor.

61-year-old Taylor admitted that during his rule in certain parts of Liberia has indeed been extended anthropophagy but regarded as complete nonsense the allegations of his involvement in this. Earlier, a witness at the trial said the involvement of Taylor to kanibalizmu. In particular, Taylor's predecessor as President Samuel Doe, who, like Taylor, came to power in a military coup, died under torture, before being eaten.

Assault against Islamist leader's house in Nigeria: 260 Dead

Shortly before traveling to Brazil, the president of Nigeria, Umaru Yar #39; Adua said that the situation was under control in the north. The president added that Nigerian being the final assault against the leader of the extremist #39, #39 Taliban;, Yusuf Muhamed, referring to the situation in Maiduguri (north-east), where fighting continued on Tuesday afternoon. A police officer interviewed by AFP in the city confirmed that the army fired mortars at the house of Yusuf. Only in the city of Maiduguri, Borno State capital, border with Cameroon, killed at least 206 people on Monday, told AFP a policeman who asked not be identified. Yesterday (Monday), we have counted 197 dead bodies of Taliban were deposited at the enclosure of the central (…). The #39, #39 Taliban, killing nine policemen, said the source. Since Sunday, security forces Violent clashes in northern Nigeria to members of an Islamic sect that is like #39, #39 Taliban; name of the radical Muslim Afghans who were overthrown in 2001 by United States and its allies.

More than 100 corpses were deposited in the local police headquarters and is bringing more, says Bala Ibrahim, a journalist from a local radio station, from Maiduguri to AFP.

Bala said that the police were gathering in the streets the bodies of militants killed in that city, where they imposed a curfew.

The fighting stopped since last night, but the Bodies are still taken to police headquarters in trucks and vans, he said.

In Ukraine, found a skull fragment of a journalist Gongadze

Ukrainian law enforcement authorities discovered askull fragment of journalist Georgy Gongadze in Belotserkovsky district of Kyiv region. The fragment was discovered at the site, which said arrested several days ago, ex-head of department of external surveillance MIA Oleksiy Pukach. Reported Interfax with reference to an informed source in the law enforcement bodies of Ukraine.

information on finding confirmed by the Secretary-General Yuri Boychenko prosecutors. A piece of skull, with a high probability belonging Gongadze, – quotes its words ITAR-TASS news agency.

According to a source in law enforcement, where the fragment was found, already paved the road. Currently, there is investigative team and experts.

Opposition journalist Gongadze disappeared in Kiev, 16 September 2000. In November the same year in the forest in the Kiev region, was found his headless corpse. The body has not yet made the earth, as the journalist's mother Lesya Gongadze refused to bury his son until his head was found.

Influenza H1N1 spreads to remote parts of the world: WHO

In a report published on Monday, WHO said that more than 20 foreign countries and territories recorded its first laboratory-confirmed cases of the new virus, also known as swine flu. These include destinations the Seychelles Islands, Turks and Caicos, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Netherlands Antilles, Belize and the French Reunion Island, as well as remote locations such as American Samoa and Tonga in the Pacific and the Solomon Islands in the Indian. Influenza H1N1, which is a genetic mix of human virus, avian and swine, also managed to reach places like the Himalayas in Bhutan and Andorra, an independent state located between Spain and France. Afghanistan and Sudan have also confirmed its first infection in recent days. The emergence of the virus in Mexico and United States and its rapid international spread caused the WHO declared a pandemic in June. The UN agency said it was impossible to stop it and is following closely for signs of mutation or combination with other strains of influenza.

Moscow and Kiev on the eve of a diplomatic war: Ukraine may expel Russian consul

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worsening relations between Moscow and Kiev threatens to escalate into a diplomatic war. Earlier this week, Ukraine, at the insistence of local authorities to leave the counselor of the embassy of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lysenko, and rumor has that to send the Russian Consul General in Odessa Alexander Grachev. Perhaps the conflict is linked to upcoming elections in Ukraine.

Gracheva asked to leave because of ukrainofobskoy activity, reported last week, the Ukrainian Party Brotherhood, known for its epatazhno-extremist activities against the Russian representatives, writes Kommersant . Consulate General of Russia in this message is not confirmed, saying: The information we do not, the Brotherhood and it's not podavno.

However, party leader Dmitry Korchinsky continues to insist that Gracheva send. He really Packs suitcases, and it is a very good sign, – said Korchinsky. On the coming departure Gracheva and diplomatic sources told Kommersant, although officially Russia MFA does not confirm this information.

Recall, last Thursday it was reported that the Ukrainian authorities to leave until 29 July territory Counselor Embassy of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lysenko , which is responsible for the Russian Black Sea Fleet staying in Sevastopol. I am leaving the country on Monday-Tuesday, – said the diplomat himself.

Saturday happened harshly commented , Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov. The situation in Russia is seen as another step in a series of unfriendly actions by the Kiev against Russia, – he said. – This issue will not remain without consequences.

Panelists: Yushchenko fuel anti-sentiment before the election

Leaders MIDov the two countries discussed the situation with the banishment of Russian representatives on the phone, say diplomatic sources.

German Minister questioned by limousine to take Spain

Opposition politicians called on the Minister Ulla Schmidt, a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), to give more details about the incident, which could affect the party after Merkel's conservatives more than ten points in opinion polls of to the federal electionsof September 27. The Ministry of Health issued a statement on Sunday indicating that the vehicle and the driver were available for Schmidt and all members of the cabinet for business and private uses all the time. She used the car several times both for official business in private during their vacation this year in Spain, said a Ministry release. Thieves stole the keys from the driver's accommodation near Alicante, on Saturday said a spokesman for the minister, adding that Schmidt used the vehicle for Mercedes meetings with health officials in Germany Spain. Otto Fricke, chairman of the Budget Committee of Parliament in Germany, noted that the official schedule to answer questions.