18:05
ALBANIANS CONTINUE ARMED PROVOCATIONS IN MACEDONIA
Up to armed provocations all nights through, Albanian rebels opened fire last night in Tetotvo, dozens of villages outside the city and in the vicinity of the town of Kumanovo More details...

15:55
OBSERVATION OF CHECHEN CITIZENS' RIGHTS DISCUSSED IN RUSSIAN GENERAL PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE
Yuri Biryukov, the first deputy of the General Prosecutor and Mikhail Kislitsin, the Chief Military Prosecutor met Alvaro Gil-Robles, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe in the Russian General Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday. They discussed the observation of Chechen citizens' rights, the information and public relations department of the General Prosecutor's Office said. More details...

14:45
REMNANTS OF GELAYEV'S GANG DESTROYED
The remains of the gang led by Ruslan Gelayev, a notorious Chechen warlord, have been destroyed during a special operation conducted by the Defence Ministry of the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia. More details...

14:03
16 SEPARATISTS KILLED IN CHECHNYA YESTERDAY
The Chechen law enforcement officers killed 16 separatists and detained 8 separatists yesterday, the press centre of the Russian Interior Ministry in Khankala said. More details...

10:20
REMAINDER OF RUSLAN GELAYEV'S GANG OF CHECHEN TERRORISTS COMPLETELY DESTROYED IN ABKHAZIA
The remainder of the gang of notorious Chechen terrorist Ruslan Gelayev has been completely destroyed in Abkhazia, First Deputy Minister of Defence of the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia Guivi Agrba said by telephone on Monday. More details...

21:52
AMERICAN AVIATION SERIOUSLY PRESSED BIN LADEN
Prime suspect is experiencing difficulties with training the gunmen. This is presented as considerable success in the anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan More details...

21:27
USA AGAINST COLUMBIAN CEASEFIRE?
Spokesperson for Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue confirms that USA is against Bogota’s peace deal with FARC. More details...

21:20
GELAYEV GANG DESTROYED COMPLETELY IN ABKHAZIA
A paramilitary grouping led by Chechen warlord Ruslan Gelayev has been destroyed completely in Abkhazia, a breakaway autonomy in Georgia, the head of the Abkhaz security service, Raul Khadzhimba, said by telephone More details...

20:55
DISARMAMENT CONDITIONS TO BE TALKED OVER WITH MASKHADOV
To be discussed at meetings with Maskhadov are terms of disarmament of militants and bringing them back to peaceful life, the Russian president's aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky said at a Grozny press conference Monday More details...

18:08
PAKISTAN IS CROSSING THE LINE. AFGHAN WAR IS SPREADING TO OTHER COUNTRIES
The situation in Pakistan is becoming very tense. Such development of the situation was being expected actually; the strange thing is that nothing like that had happened before More details...

16:43
ISLAMIC ISLAMISTS SEIZED AIRFIELD IN NORTHERN KASHMIR CONQUERED BY PAKISTAN
Students of Islamic schools seized an airfield in the vicinity of Gilgit, Northern Kashmir conquered by Pakistan, the Zahedan Radio reported More details...

15:50
FIRST DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER VYACHESLAV TRUBNIKOV: U.S. CHANGES ITS STANCE ON CHECHNYA
First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Vyacheslav Trubnikov believes that Washington is changing its stance in relation to Chechnya. He spoke at a meeting with journalists in the capital of Portugal, where he arrived to participate in consultations of the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group for Nagorny Karabakh. More details...

13:59
CHECHEN TERRORIST ACT PREVENTED
A terrorist act has been prevented at the railway bridge over the river Dzhalka in Chechnya. The chief press spokesman for the North Caucasus Interior Ministry Department for transport, Colonel Sergei Nazarov, stated. More details...

13:34
HEAD OF OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY URGES ACTIVE SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNY KARABAKH CONFLICT
Settlement of the conflict in Nagorny Karabakh calls for more energetic actions, Adrian Severin, the president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, told journalists on Sunday. More details...

13:22
11 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS INJURED BY CHECHEN GUNMEN
11 soldiers of the Joint Group of Forces were injured by Chechen gunmen last Sunday, according to the Joint Group of Forces' headquarters. More details...

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...