Three suicide bombers nabbed in Chechnya.

GROZNY, September 4 (Itar-Tass) -- Police seized three suicide bombers
in Shalinsky district of Chechnya, republican President Ramzan Kadyrov
told local TV late on Thursday, adding all the three are teenagers.
The oldest of them is only 18, he said.
Kadyrov said one of the bombers had to explode himself near a police
precinct in Grozny on Friday. Police seized a 5-kilogram belt with
explosives, three submachine guns and a land mine from the teenagers.
Such warlords, as Yaser Myakhdi and the like "brainwash our youth and
turn them into zombies with psychotropic medications," Kadyrov said.
"Today thanks to the efforts of republican law enforcers we saved
dozens of human lives. We have to continue efforts to seize and eliminate
terrorists," Kadyrov said and promised to have warlords and their
militants eliminated in the near future.

.Explosions kill six at Serb ammunition factory.


BELGRADE, September 4 (Itar-Tass) -- A series of explosions killed six
and wounded thirteen people at the Prvi Partizan ammunition factory in the
town of Uzice south of Belgrade overnight.
The resulting fire has been localized and there are no new explosions,
said Deputy Interior Minister Predrag Maric.
Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac said it was difficult to
determine the cause of the explosions at the moment and that investigators
were already on the site.
Interior Minister Ivica Dacic has left for Uzice, where hundreds of
city residents gathered at the entrance to the largest ammunition facility
of the country.

.Venezuela restores electricity supplies.

CARACAS, September 4 (Itar-Tass) -- Venezuela restored electricity
supplies throughout the country after an accident at a power plant left
most of the national territory in blackout on Thursday.
President of the national electric corporation Hipolito Izquierdo said
supplies were quickly restored, however the underground in Caracas as well
as shuttle trains stood idle for over three hours.
He said the outage was caused by an accident at a power plant.
According to Izquierdo, accidents at power plans and transmission
lines are caused by growing electricity consumption, as well as by worn
out equipment and infrastructure of the industry.
In 2007 Venezuela nationalized all energy companies and began to
modernize the energy sector. However five major outages have taken place
since 2008.

.Officials split on Moscow mayor's idea to keep snow away from capital.

MOSCOW, September 4 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has
already proposed to divert Siberian river flow for export, this time
surprised the public with a new innovative idea - to make snow fall
outside Moscow and thus save money on cleaning the streets in winter.
Officials are split on the proposal.
Twice a year - during the Day of Moscow in September and on VE-Day in
May - Moscow authorities use special aircraft to disperse clouds, if
necessary, and make rain fall in the surrounding region. Luzhkov proposed
to do the same with snow in winter.
"The region will have more precipitation and bigger crops, the capital
will save on snow cleaning," the mayor suggested.
Speaker of the Moscow regional legislature Valery Aksakov welcomed the
idea.
"If there is enough money in this crisis period to make planes fly,
let them disperse the clouds," he said on Thursday.
"If the snow falls, say on the lands of the Lenin state farm and it
gets bigger crops of strawberries, raspberries, grain, it would be good,
as we lack precipitation for good crops," he added.
However, the director of the mentioned farm and member of the Moscow
region legislature Pavel Grudinin opposed the idea and said no economic
benefit shall strip the people of emotional comfort.
"Nobody has ever suggested to deny snow to the Muscovites. There can
be no winter without snow. Yuri Mikhailovich (Luzhkov) is wrong," he said.
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