22:01
RUSLAN KHASBULATOV: GREAT AMERICAN TRAGEDY AND WHAT THE WORLD HAS TO DO TO AVOID THE DEATH OF CIVILIZATION. (PART 3)
The answers to all those questions are not simple and I do not claim I can give the precise and irrefragable recommendations. However, I do believe that that general outline of the activity of the world community towards the harmonization of the entire organizational system of the international relations, removing the tense atmosphere between rich North and poor South is evident More details...

20:22
ANDREY LUBENSKY: UKRAINIAN MAIL TAKES SECURITY MEASURES
In connection with the large amount of information received from the United States of America about the anthrax mail incidents, the Ukrainian mail company Ukrpochta created a schedule of actions for extreme situations More details...

20:03
SPECIALISTS EXAMINE 9TH COMPARTMENT OF THE KURSK SUBMARINE
The first group of investigators and experts descended into the ninth compartment of the Kursk submarine today. Six people in total gained entry to the compartment More details...

19:57
BILL WHITE: ISRAELI LOBBY SCRAMBLING FOR NEW APPROACH TO CRISIS (PART 1)
As Their Allies In Defense Face A Purge, America’s “Official” Jewish Groups Look For Justice To Promote Agenda More details...

18:46
YURY RAZGULYAEV: CENTRAL ASIA IS PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE TERRORIST ATTACKS
A delegation of specialists from the Ministry for Emergency Situations came back to the republic of Kyrgyzia from Dushanbe – the capital of the republic of Tajikistan. The delegates participated in the session of the emergency ministers of the Central Asian countries More details...

18:42
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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...

16:30
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Among the many claims by the Taliban of bombing raids on civilians, the United Nations has confirmed that a hospital in Heart was hit. More details...

16:05
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16:00
JACK STRAW: BOMBARDMENTS OF AFGHANISTAN AS AN AID TO ITS PEOPLE
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said to help Afghan people the US should continue to bomb them. What is behind these words: the foreign secretary’s personal position on the events, or the government’s official position? More details...

14:40
YURI KHRAMEEV: “THEY WANTED TO GIVE ME UP, LIKE BUDANOV”
Yuri Khrameev, first commander of Northwest Special Police Group (OMON) and leader of a St Petersburg police group in Chechnya, is almost a legendary person. More details...

12:50
JAMES GLASER: GETTING READY FOR WINTER
It is late fall in northern Minnesota. All the leaves are gone, the ducks are coming down from Canada, and we have had that first hard frost. Every year it is like a ritual – you put away all the yard tools, move anything that the snow plow might hit, and check out the furnace. You also have to make sure you have plenty of fire wood in case you need a backup heat. More details...

12:20
ANDREI LUBENSKI: UKRAINIAN DEFENCE MINISTER RESIGNED
On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma announced, while appearing in TV, that he had accepted Defence Minister Alexander Kuzmuk’s resignation. As known, Kuzmuk has sent in his resignation just after Russian Tu-134 airliner crash over Black Sea. More details...

11:50
IRINA MALENKO: BIBLE – BEST SELLING BOOK IN USA, WHILE IN NETHERLANDS – KORAN
There is an expression in Dutch “to fly like hot rolls over shop board”, what means “to be in popular demand”. More details...

11:30
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: VICTORY FORGED IN HOME FRONT
US economy is turning to military rail. Militarization of American society becomes inevitable before menace of world terrorism. Americans are really enterprising: they can make money even on war. More details...

10:32
NEBOJSHA MALIC: THE MEANINGS OF MADNESS – NATO'S 'ACCOMPLISHMENTS' IN THE BALKANS
In the Balkans, two weeks can pass like a day or like an eternity. As television, the press and even the Internet increasingly focus on Afghanistan, the peninsula drops off the news radar – barring some major calamity its inhabitants would rather avoid. Over time, however, the numerous small and ignored events open a way for such a calamity, making it seem sudden and unpredictable. More details...

20:44
CHECHEN REBELS CHANGE GEOPOLITICAL ORIENTATION
Afghanistan, “suffering from the US yoke,” seems to has become the priority area of interest for Chechen rebels. Jordanian Emir Hattab, one of the most influential Chechen warlords has sent a group of Chechen rebels to help fight the “world evil” personified in the USA. More details...

19:40
OSAMA BIN LADEN RECEIVED ANTHRAX BY MAIL. AND SENT IT OUT ACROSS THE WORLD
One of Osama bin Laden accomplices, who is currently being held in custody in Egypt, has given sensational evidence of his former boss’s activities. In his words, the No. 1 terrorist is behind the current biological attacks. More details...

18:21
YURI RAZGULYAYEV: KYRGHYZSTAN SEES TERRORISM AS LARGELY BEING FED BY DRUGS
The Republic of Kyrghyzstan has for three years fought international terrorism, Bolot Zhanuzakov, the chairman of Kyrghyzstan’s security council is quoted as saying at the international conference on regional security recently held in Bishkek, Kyrghyzstan’s capital city. More details...

17:11
TOTAL WAR FEARED BY ISRAEL
The joint Chief of Staff of the Israeli Armed Forces, General Moshe Yaalon, declares that there is a serious risk of war between Israel and Syria. More details...

16:55
THE BULK OF KURSK SUBMARINE SEEN ABOVE WATER
For the first time since its wreck, television viewrs can see the Kursk submarine appearing above the water. In Roslyakovo, the drainage of the submarine is in progress. The entire upper deck is currently positioned above the water, with waves splashing against about a half the height of the sub’s hull. More details...

16:50
PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
A historic offer has been made by Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, which could bring lasting peace to this troubled province. More details...

16:30
AGA KHAN AGAINST TALIBAN
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15:54
THE LYNCH LAW RETURNING
The Muslim world’s reaction to the bombing of Afghanistan seems to be going to the extreme. Indonesia, one of the world’s largest Muslim countries, has seen a lynch law of sorts staged by Islamic radicals on local Christians. More details...

15:20
TAREK MAHMOOD: UZBEKISTAN'S 'BRIDGE OF FRIENDSHIP' STANDS CLOSED TO THE SOUTH
TERMIZ -- Every day Abdullah Jahangirov Izzatullaevich sees anywhere between 80 and 1,000 pilgrims come his way into the ancient mosque of el-Hakim at-Termizi (cq), where he is the caretaker. More details...

15:06
BUST OF PUTIN: GOOD FOR NOTHING
Do you want to buy a cast-iron bust of the second president of Russia? Others did not want too. Cast-iron busts of the Russian president are not much in demand. The manufacture of them has been stopped by an engineering plant in the city of Kusa, Chelyabinsk region. More details...

15:00
CHRIS DELISO: CHRISTIANITY IN PALESTINE, AND AMERICA’S “WAR ON TERROR”
Noted travel writer William Dalrymple argued recently in the Independent for the underlying unity of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, referring for the most part to the early history of Islam and the cultural homogeneity between all of the peoples living in the Levant, no matter what their religious orientation. More details...

14:50
OUR READER BRIAN RUDNICK: OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH
Listening to your speech I felt very reassured that my vote in last year's Presidential election was the right one After all you're doing for the Afghan people when are they going to start thanking US? My niece loves those astronaut-like food rations you're air dropping along with the bombs More details...