Unfortunately, because of a delay in the proceedings, the Iraqi parliament has not ratified our agreement, said Jawwad Syed, a spokesman for the British embassy in Baghdad. Because the existing licenses expire on July 31, we are withdrawing from the Royal Navy coaches to Kuwait while discussing the position with the Iraqi authorities, he said. On Monday, the Iraqi parliament session adjourned until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, around September 20, leaving behind a mountain of legislation not passed, including the pact between Iraq and United Kingdom that allowed about 100 British soldiers remain in Iraq after a withdrawal date agreed in advance. Under the agreement, British troops would focus on helping the Iraqi naval forces to protect oil platforms valuable. According to another pact negotiated last year, Britain should withdraw its troops by June 30. United Kingdom, which sent 46,000 troops to the Persian Gulf to support the 2003 invasion led by the United States , had led his soldiers to the airport in the southern city of Basra, the Iraqi oil center, in 2007. » More: United Kingdom forces withdraw oil Iraq, Kuwait will

Arabsalim of Virginia Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was sentenced to life imprisonment for involvement in 2003 in preparation for the assassination of President George W. Bush, ITAR-TASS news agency.

judge of the city Alexandria (Virginia), Gerald Bruce Lee One has already announced its verdict in this case, sending Abu Ali in a prison cell for 30 years. However, in June 2008 Court of Appeals in Richmond, in response to a protest from the prosecutor's office, found the sentence too lenient.

Li, reading a new decision, that took into account the reluctance of Abu Ali repent and condemn terrorist activities by Al Qaeda, in which he came. He also rejected the statements of counsel, that the confessions of Abu Ali was broken by Saudi investigators. According to Lee, during the trial, held in Virginia, members of the jury, and then a judge of the Court of Appeal considered this issue and concluded that there is no reason to consider the recognition of Abu Ali, a confession involuntary. » More: The Americans planned to kill Bush, toughened the sentence and sent into the chamber until the end of life

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, an area of low oxygen levels that threaten marine life, is smaller than expected this year, but more lethal, the government reported on Monday. The zone, caused by agricultural chemicals from farms along the Mississippi River, measures about 7,800 kilometers or about 1.5 times the size of the state of Delaware, area less than the estimates on the 13,680 miles, scientists said. Clearly the flow of excess nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural fields in the drainage basin continues to cause havoc to life in the Gulf, he told reporters Jane Lubchenco in a teleconference, in charge of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of United States. unusually strong winds and currents stir the water, giving oxygen and reducing the area to a smaller size of advance. However, Nancy Rabalais, scientific Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, said the area is more severe because the low oxygen levels are closer to the surface than in years Recent. The dead zone threat to Gulf fishing industries equivalent to about 3,000 million dollars a year. Now marine animals that normally feed near the seabed, including eels and certain types of shrimp and crabs are closer to the surface. The dead zone is caused by fertilizer and nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus used in land around the Mississippi, which in turn lead to the overproduction of small organisms such as algae in the Gulf of Mexico. » More: Dead zone in the U.S. is smaller and severe this year: Government

EU extended sanctions against the DPRK. The decision was taken at the ministerial meeting of 27 community.

As ITAR-TASS news agency , according to the text of the final declaration, the EU Council confirmed the readiness for the introduction of the EU additional sanctions against North Korea, the possibility of a resolution by the Security Council United Nations, adopted after the nuclear test Pyongyang in May this year. » More: The EU has imposed additional sanctions on North Korea

These clashes erupted in the morning when police in the city of Bauchi (North), eponym of the state capital, prevented a planned attack by the sect the Taliban against a police post, a police source said. Awwal Isa, a nurse from the hospital in Bauchi, contacted by telephone, had told AFP that in total we received 42 bodies. At first received nine corpses. A few hours later we received another 33, said the nurse, stating that 32 of the 33 dead were members of the sect. He said that they were victims of Fighting between security forces and members of the #39, #39 Taliban, a sect that emerged in Nigeria in 2004. A local journalist interviewed by AFP spoke of a thirty killed. Men in the sect tried to attack a police stationon the outskirts of Bauchi and were repelled by police, told AFP a local police spokesman, Mohammed Barau. local journalists contacted by telephone by AFP said that there were 30 deaths, while a police spokesman Mohammed Barau, had shortly before that five members of the sect were killed. About 35 members of the radical movement, which emerged in 2004 in Nigeria and also known under the name Muhajirun wanted to take by assault on Sunday morning the police post Dutsen Tenshin, near Bauchi , Barau said to AFP. Our men were able to reject this attack on the Taliban and killed five members of the group during a firefight, he had told AFP, adding that the police looking for other members of the group who had absconded. » More: Nigeria: 40 killed in riots between police and sect protaliban