23:13
USA ANNOUNCES PROGRESS IN DESTRUCTION OF TALEBAN AIR DEFENSE
On Monday Donald Rumsfeld, head of the Pentagon, stated that in the course of the first wave of air strikes against Afghanistan last Sunday certain progress was achieved in elimination of Taleban air defense. More details...

21:23
ANDREY LUBENSKY: AMERICA WAGES WAR, UKRAINIANS MAY GO TO SLEEP
The beginning of the military operation in Afghanistan seems to have taken the Ukrainian politicians aback. There has been no official comments made yet More details...

20:54
WARFARE IN AFGHANISTAN MAY SEND OIL PRICES UP, EXPERTS SAY
The current military campaign in Afghanistan may raise the world oil prices to $25-27 per barrel, up from today's $21-22, Yevgeny Samoilov, CEO of Russia's Petroleum Exporters Union, said in a RIA Novosti interview Monday. More details...

20:21
OLEG SHENIN: USSR WAS RIGHT TO HAVE ITS TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
“The expected strike” on Afghanistan caused wild reactions from different politicians. Here is what Oleg Shenin, a member of the former Soviet Communist Party, had to say on the score to a PRAVDA.Ru correspondent (Shenin used to work in Kabul in the beginning of the 80s as a councilor) More details...

20:04
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS REASON FOR CRASH OF HELICOPTER CARRYING UN MISSION IN GEORGIA WAS POLICY OF APPEASEMENT AND TOLERANCE PURSUED BY GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES TOWARDS TERRORISTS
Russia's Foreign Ministry has said that the reason for the crash of a helicopter that carried a UN mission in Georgia was the policy of appeasement and tolerance pursued by Georgian authorities towards terrorists. More details...

19:47
NORTHERN ALLIANCE PREPARES AN OFFENSIVE ALONG THE LINE TAKHAR-KABUL
The Northern Alliance gets ready for the offensive on Kabul advancing from Takhar. More details...

19:40
JARED TAYLOR:TEACHING MORE MILLIONS TO HATE US
ON September 11, President George W. Bush explained to us on national television that "America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world." Two days later, he spoke of terrorists who "hate our values" and "hate what America stands for." The next day, at the National Cathedral, he said, "They have attacked America, because we are freedom's home and defender." If that were indeed what motivated the men who flew airplanes into the Pentagon and World Trade Center, there would be reason for the huge military operation President Bush now tells us we need in order to "whip terrorism." More details...

19:10
USA TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN IN 2-3 WEEKS
America has started the war against Afghanistan. The “powerful, destructive” missile and bomb strike eliminated over 30 targets in the country. Donald Rumsfeld – the head of the Pentagon – said the first part of the operation was “very successful.” More details...

18:32
SIBERIAN CITIZEN SAVED 70 PEOPLE DURING WTC ATTACK AND GOT POST MORTEM MEDAL “FOR SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION IN DEVELOPMENT OF KUZBASS” IN RETURN
Former Siberian citizen Yevgeny Knyazev, who saved 70 people from the fire in the World Trade Center, was given the highest award of the Kemerovo region post mortem More details...

18:13
ANATOLI BARANOV: AMERICA STARTED WARFARE. RUSSIA HAS ALREADY LOST
The whole world has been waiting for this news for several weeks already, but anyway it has became a sensation. The U.S.A. and Great Britain started bombing Afghanistan. After the opinion polls in America showed the expectations of the war gained 6% within the recent week, the act of retribution became inevitable More details...

15:40
TALIBAN DECLARES WAR ON UZBEKISTAN
The Taliban’s consulate to Pakistan, mullah Najibulla officially announced in Peshavar that the Taliban will declare war on Uzbekistan. According to him, military actions will be deployed on the border. The consulate complained about the Taliban not being able to use their air force against Uzbekistan at the moment. More details...

15:00
PAKISTAN: “DEATH TO AMERICA!”
In the northern Pakistan, serious disturbances among the local people are taking place. In the city of Quetta, near to Afghan border, thousands of people flooded the streets. The demonstrators are very aggressive, they are breaking shop windows, burning cars tires and rubbish, and throwing stones at the police. Shooting can be heard in the city and suburbs. The demonstrators are shouting "death to America!" More details...

14:13
JEFF ELKINS: AMERICA OR AMERIKA?
The stories are starting to pour in. Shuffling lines of resigned travelers at airports, subjected to full searches of checked luggage and intrusive frisks by minimum wage security drones. Serious calls for a national ID card. More details...

13:51
JARED ISRAEL: BUSHLADEN INCLUDES REPORT FROM THE 'WALL STREET JOURNAL'
While thousands of human beings lie buried under tons of rubble and hundreds of thousands of desperate human beings flee raids on Afghan cities employing Tomahawk missile which have deadly uranium as ballast, some folks are doing OK. [On uranium ballast, see notes at 'Further Reading']. Below we have reprinted an article from the 'Wall Street Journal'. More details...

13:28
LIFTING OF KURSK FINISHED
An hour ago, the Smith Weiss tug boat came to the Gigant-4 barge and started transporting to the dock the vessel with Kursk nuclear submarine fastened under the vessel’s bottom. The Kursk was lifted at a height of 58 metres above the sea bottom. The operation was carried out without complications. More details...

13:00
MARTIAL LAW IMPLEMENTED IN THE US
Troops have entered city streets and administrative and governmental buildings, as well as cultural memorials and famous buildings, are being guarded. More details...

12:30
KURSK "LIFTED"
The Kursk nuclear submarine has been lifted from the Barents Sea. At the moment, Gigant barge’s hoists have lifted the submarine at a height of 20 meters and work is being continued. Today, it is expected that the Kursk will be fastened to the barge's bottom and afterwords, tugboats will arrive to the site and begin to transport the barge and submarine to the dock.

12:02
HIPPOPOTAMUS IN RAGE KILLS TWO MEN
A hippopotamus has attacked and killed two fishermen in Mali. The enraged animal was disturbed by the fishermen in Koulikoro River, 50 km. from the capital, Bamako. More details...

12:00
MANY VICTIMS IN KABUL AS A RESULT OF FOURTH MISSILE ATTACK
As a result of the morning air attack (the fourth one since launching the US operation against Afghanistan), there are many victims in Kabul, Quatar TV station ‘Al-Jaseera’ reported from Afghan capital. According to this report, dozens of people were killed or injured. More details...

11:47
USA TWICE BEFORE PLANNED TO ELIMINATE BIN LADEN
The USA has twice before tried to eliminate Osama Bin Laden, once in 1998 and again a year later. More details...

11:34
FIREFIGHT OVER KABUL
The skies of Kabul were alight yesterday afternoon as at around 14.00 MSK, Taliban anti-aircraft batteries shot down a drone. More details...

11:26
TIDAL WAVE OF HEROIN ON STREETS OF EUROPE
The aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11th spells an ominous tale for the streets of Europe, a surge in the supply of heroin, as suppliers free themselves of their stock before the impending air raids. More details...

11:00
PETR YERMILIN: STRANGE CONCLUSIONS OF RIA ‘NOVOSTI’
Last night Russian state agency RIA ‘Novosti’ reported that Osama bin Laden had admitted that he has a connection with the terrorist acts in the US. More details...

10:40
EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN: TONY BLAIR – THE MAD BOMBER OF KABUL TONY BLAIR HAS FINALLY LOST THE PLOT
Author's note. Literally as I finished the spellchecker on this I heard that the bombing of Kabul had started. The immediate relevance of this piece may have diminished, but let's remember that the insanity of the leader America's "foremost ally" is a crucial point here. Let's pray that this will soon be over and that only the terrorists suffer. More details...

10:36
TALIBAN ALLEGED TO SOON ATTACK UZBEKISTAN
A massive offence on Uzbekistan will be launched by the Taliban movement in the near future, a spokesman for the Taliban movement told the Al-Jazeera TV station. More details...

10:26
TALIBAN LEADER AND OSAMA BIN LADEN LEAVE KANDAHAR IN UNKNOWN DIRECTION
Shortly after the US strikes at Afghanistan began, Taliban leader mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden and their families left Kandahar on board two small planes moving in an unknown direction, a correspondent of the Gulf News newspaper /UAE/ reports from the Pakistani town of Quetta. More details...

23:13
RUSSIA SUPPORTS U.S.-BRITISH ANTI-TERROR ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN
Russia supports US-British anti-terror action in Afghanistan. Terrorism is a formidable threat to global peace and security, and must be counteracted by all means complying with the United Nations Charter. More details...

17:08
INVESTIGATION GROUP WORKS EQUALLY WORKS ON ALL VERSIONS OF THE TU-154 CRASH
The group investigating reasons for the Tu-154 crash is working equally on “absolutely all versions of the crash," Sergei Fridinski, deputy public prosecutor general said at a press conference. He stated that before receiving conclusions for the expert groups that are investigating the crash, “any information could not be regarded as reliable." More details...

16:25
ANDREI LUBENSKI: UKRAINIAN MILITARY OFFICIALS STILL DENYING THEIR IMPLICATION IN TU-154 CRASH. THOUGH NOBODY BELIEVES THEM
Just after reports about supposed anti-aircraft missile hitting a Russian Tu-154, officials of Ukrainian Defence Ministry started to appear with refutations. According to commander general of Ukrainian anti-aircraft troops, Colonel-General Vladimir Tkachev, the results of objective and radiometric examination clearly show that any Ukrainian missile could not have hit the Tu-154. More details...

14:36
13-YEAR OLD GIRL SUSPECTED OF HER FATHER’S MURDER
A schoolgirl from a secondary school of the town Pavlov Posad, Moscow region, is being accused of a crime, ITAR- TASS reports. The girl was detained and an investigation is being carried out. More details...