18:39
TWO ISRAELIS KILLED, TWENTY WOUNDED IN HADERA ACT OF TERRORISM
Two Israeli citizens have been killed and twenty wounded Sunday afternoon as two terrorists machine-gunned pedestrians from a jeep riding along the central street of Hadera in the north of Israel. A street patrol opened retaliation fire and the car lost control, running into a lamp pole. More details...

18:31
MACEDONIA: ANA OWNS UP AS REBELS ATTACK POLICE PRECINCT
The Albanian National Army owned up a violent act as ethnic Albanian rebels were shooting at a police station to hit an officer in Tjarce village near Tetovo, Macedonia, in the small hours today, says Tanjug news agency with reference to reliable informants in Skopje. More details...

18:14
SERBIA'S VICE-PREMIER CALLS UNMIK TO CONFIRM YUGOSLAV TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
The UNMIK, United Nations civil mission to Kosovo, would do wise to confirm Yugoslav sovereignty and territorial integrity in the interests of peace and stability in that part of Europe, Nebojsa Covic, Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the coordination centre for Kosovo and Metohija, said in an interview with the newspaper Blitz. More details...

17:08
FORMER AFGHAN PREMIER CALLS UPON AFGHANS TO RALLY FOR DEFENCE OF ISLAM
In an interview to Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV company, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, Afghanistan's head of the cabinet overthrown by the Taliban and leader of the Islamic Party of Afghanistan (IPA), said Sunday that all the Afghan leaders should see their goal in defending the country and Islam rather than struggling for power. More details...

16:45
ABKHAZ LEGATION DENIES AIRRAIDS
The Abkhaz representation in Russia denies reports by certain media outlets of Sukhumi-stationed aircraft - six helicopters and three SU-25 war planes - bombing the vicinity of the Marukh mountain pass, Abkhazia's Gulripsha district. More details...

15:11
MACEDONIA: POLICEMAN HIT AS REBELS ATTACK TETOVO PRECINCT
Ethnic Albanian rebels were shooting at a police station in Tetovo, Macedonia, in the small hours today. An officer was hit, says Radio Skopje. More details...

15:03
KOSOVO SERBS EXPECT MORE GUARANTEES TO GO TO POLLS
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica is expecting that the Kosovo Serbs will be provided with more guarantees for participating in parliamentary elections in the area on November 17. More details...

14:26
KARACHAI-CIRCASSIA: RUSSIA'S INTERIOR MINISTRY FINISHES EXERCISE
A command and staff exercise of the federal Interior Ministry was underway in Karachai-Circassia, a North Caucasian autonomous republic, throughout last week, to finish today. More details...

12:22
USA, U.K. TO SHOOT MISSILES ON IRAQ?
The USA and Great Britain are plotting to hit 300 targets in Iraq with a thousand missiles to overthrow President Saddam Hussain, Iraq's Vice-Premier Tariq Aziz said in an interview the British-based Sunday Telegraph carries today. More details...

12:00
PAKISTAN: MUSLIM MILITANTS JOIN TALIBAN
Several thousand armed Muslim militants have left Pakistan to join the Taliban. A bus and lorry caravan is advancing toward the Kunar province in the Afghan east. More details...

11:55
GAZA STRIP: ISRAELI TANKS SHOOT AT ARAB RESIDENTIAL QUARTERS
An Austrian settlement, the Al Hamal neighbourhood and a refugee camp in Palestine's Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip south, were victim to heavy artillery and machine-gun fire in the small hours today as Israeli tanks and other armoured vehicles advanced from permanent stationing near the Jewish villages of Naviya Dokkalim and Jani Tal. More details...

11:49
AFGHANISTAN: FIGHTING MOVES CLOSE TO TAJIK FRONTIER
Northern Alliance-Taliban fighting has come close to the Tajik frontier, reported Russian borderguard contingent PR. More details...

10:57
PRESIDENT BORIS TRAJKOVSKI OF MACEDONIA ARRIVES IN MOSCOW SUNDAY
President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia is to arrive in Moscow on a short routine visit Sunday evening. More details...

21:18
RICHARD LLOYD PARRY (THE INDEPENDENT): FAMILIES BLOWN APART, INFANTS DYING. THE TERRIBLE TRUTH OF THIS 'JUST WAR'
Sami Ullah was asleep when it happened, and so his friends and neighbours had to tell him about the bomb that struck his house and what it did to him and his family. How the American planes, which had been over earlier in the evening, had returned after everyone went to bed and how, instead of the Taliban base two miles away, they dropped their bombs on a residential area of the town of Tarin Kot More details...

20:28
TAJIK PRESIDENT FAVOURS FORMING GOVERNMENT OF ALL ETHNIC GROUPS IN AFGHANISTAN
Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov has again spoken out in favour of forming a government including representatives of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan More details...

20:27
SPEAKER: CIVIL WAR TO FOLLOW WITHDRAWAL OF RUSSIAN PEACEMAKERS FROM GEORGIA
A civil war, to the detriment of Georgia, may follow the withdrawal of Russian peacemakers from Abkhazia, Yegor Stroyev, Speaker of the Council of Federation (upper parliamentary house) told journalists on Friday More details...

17:15
DALAI-LAMA APPEALS FOR DIALOGUE
The Dalai-Lama stated that he accepts autonomy, for independence, for Tibet as he began his tour of Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday, where he called for dialogue to solve the world’s problems. More details...

13:50
FEDERALS DEFUSED POWERFUL LAND MINE IN GROZNY
Over the past 24 hours Russian police officers defused two land mines and one explosive device in Chechnya. More details...

12:50
RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS SENTRY COMES UNDER FIRE IN INGUSHETIA
A Russian border guards sentry came under fire in Ingushetia, an autonomous republic in the Russian North Caucasus. More details...

12:10
FEDERALS SHELLED NINE TIMES IN GROZNY
Over the past twenty-four hours, the federal outposts in Grozny were shelled nine times. No Russian servicemen were hit. More details...

12:08
US EQUIVOCAL STANDPOINT ON CHECHEN TERRORISM
In spite of the military anti-terrorist campaign in Afghanistan, the US standpoint on the Chechen terrorism is still equivocal. In particular, the USA speaks out against Russia's military actions. Washington does not change principal approaches to the Chechen settlement, US Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow told a news conference in Moscow. More details...

11:13
NEW CLASHES IN PALESTINE CAUSE MOSCOW'S ANXIETY
New clashes in the West Bank arouse Moscow's increasing concern, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry press-release devoted to the aggravated Middle East crisis. More details...

20:37
MORE TERROR GANGS SNEAK TO ABKHAZIA. WAR TO FLARE UP AGAIN?
Trained in Georgia's Pankisi gorge, which is infested by Chechen militants, terrorists are still penetrating the Georgian-controlled Kodori gorge, warns Harry Kupalba, Deputy Defence Minister of Abkhazia, self-proclaimed republic in Georgia More details...

19:32
JORDAN CONDEMNS ISRAEL'S ACTIONS ON OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN LANDS
Jordan condemns "the butchery staged by the Israeli army on the Palestinian lands", declared Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah al-Khatib More details...

19:26
SITUATION IN NAGORNY KARABAKH IS TO BE DISCUSSED BY AMERICAN CO-CHAIRMAN OF MINSK GROUP RUDOLPH PERINA
The situation around Nagorny Karabakh (Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan) will be the subject of talks between Azerbaijan leaders and the American co-spokesman of OSCE Minsk group Rudolph Perina. He arrived in Baku on Thursday and is expected to be met by President Geydar Aliev More details...

19:13
ABKHAZIANS WANT TO KEEP RUSSIAN BASE AND PEACEKEEPING FORCES
Igor Akhba, spokesman for the president of Abkhazia (self-proclaimed republic on Georgian territory) has pronounced for keeping the Russian military base at Gudauta and for the stay of Russian peacekeeping presence in the area of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict More details...

18:56
THREAT OF LARGE-SCALE MILITARY CAMPAIGN IN ABKHAZIA REMAINS
The threat of a large-scale military campaign in Abkhazia, the self-proclaimed republic on Georgia's territory, remains, said Igor Akhba, the representative of the President of Abkhazia More details...

18:10
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: ANOTHER ENEMY FOR THE U.S.A.
After long speculation ,the U.S.A. has finally found enemy number two. This is the Palestinian organization Hizballah. America considers this group to be a terrorist organization of a “global scale." More details...

17:30
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FEDERATION AGAINST USA
The President of the International Human Rights Federation has requested the USA to look beyond its own interests and to cease its offensive in Afghanistan. More details...

17:21
RUSSIAN TROOPS CAN BE DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN
The Russian General Headquarters is working on the question to deploy a Russian military contingent on the Afghan territory, which is controlled by Northern Alliance troops of the republic of Tajikistan More details...