Main news of August 20 Posted byRussian_Village August 21, 2011 Leave a comment on Main news of August 20 WORLD * At least nine people were injured during a rocket shelling on the Israeli cities of Beersheba and Ofakim from Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, police press secretary Alex Kagalsky said * Egypt said it would not recall its ambassador to Israel and would limit itself to inviting the Israeli ambassador to Egypt for consultations at the Foreign Ministry in Cairo * Libyan rebels battling to overthrow Col Muammar Gaddafi said they captured all of the strategic eastern town of Brega as the embattled regime denies claims Gaddafi is seeking refuge for his family * North Korean leader Kim Jong-il began his first trip to Russia since 2002, the Kremlin has said * Some 150 foreigners, detained during mass riots in Britain earlier this month, will be deported from the country “at the earliest opportunity” * Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators surrounded and blocked a multi-storey building of the Israeli embassy in Cairo demanding that the diplomatic mission lowers its national flag RUSSIA * North Korean leader Kim Jong-il began his first trip to Russia since 2002, the Kremlin has said * A polar bear that mauled a man to death in Russia’s Far Eastern region of Chukotka has been shot along with two other bears wandering near a village, a co-chairman of the Committee for Marine Mammals, Andrei Boltunov, said SPORTS * The transfer of Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto’o to Russian football club Anzhi Makhachkala may become a reality as early as Monday, Italy’s La Gazzetta dello Sport news agency said