21:47
OSAMA BIN LADEN IS SAID TO HIDE NEAR KANDAGAR
The American mass media reported today that the prime suspect was possibly hiding on the outskirts of Kandagar, where the 55th brigade of the Taliban movement is deployed More details...

21:30
MILLION OF TAJIK PEOPLE MAY DIE OF HUNGER THIS WINTER
According to the information published in The Telegraaf Dutch newspaper, 1 million of the Tajik population (the residents of the republic of Tajikistan) may die of hunger this winter More details...

21:15
CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY REJECTS CHINA’S ASSISTANCE TO TALIBAN
Official spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry rejected the rumors about China’s assistance rendered to Bin Laden’s militants More details...

19:32
RUSSIA FINISHED TU-154 CRASH INVESTIGATION. IT IS UKRAINE’S TURN NOW
Ukraine will probably finish the investigation pertaining to the crash of the Russian Tu-154 passenger plane that fell into the Black Sea. This was said by Russia’s deputy prosecutor in the Southern administrative district Sergey Fridinsky More details...

18:00
HERNAN LTCHALECO: LATIN AMERICA BETWEEN POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
Latin America experiences the world-wide most unequal distribution of income, according to the last issue of the annual report of the CEPAL (Economical Committee for Latin America and the Caribou), depending on the United Nations. The majority of its countries registered a reduction in the income share of the poorest groups during the last decade, according to the paper. More details...

17:56
SERGEY SNEGOV: BIOLOGICAL TERRORISM IN U.S.A. ACT OF HUMILIATION AGAIN
The whole world is seized with powder mania. They are looking for powder everywhere: in US and in Europe. There were 20 envelopes containing white powder found in Australia. The substance was sent for testing. An envelope with “anthrax” inside it arrived to a worker of the Israeli newspaper Maariv More details...

17:12
IRINA MALENKO: WHAT DID ARAFAT AND BLAIR TALK ABOUT?
When Lenta.Ru assured its readers that Arafat and Blair agreed to neutralize Bin Laden, the Irish mass media reported, the subject of negotiations between the British and Palestinian leaders was absolutely different More details...

16:00
US SPECIAL TROOPS LANDED IN AFGHANISTAN
For the time being, this is just a rumour based on the words of Kandagar citizens. They state that they have heard sounds of helicopters’ engines during the last bombardment of Afghanistan. It is supposed that US special troops had landed under the cover of aircraft that had been diverting Taliban forces. More details...

15:00
SERGEI BORISOV: U.N. REWARDED WITH NOBEL PRIZE TO REMEMBER THE ORGANIZATION STILL EXISTS
Kofi Annan and the United Nations have been rewarded with Nobel Peace Prize. Many people are puzzled, though the position of Nobel Committee should be understood. Who deserved the Nobel Prize this year? Nobody settled any conflicts, and the world did not become more peaceful. More details...

14:34
OUR READER STEVEN M. ROBINSON: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT PUTIN
Dear President Putin, This coming weekend you will be meeting in Shanghai with George W. Bush. Mr. Bush will try to convince you that the American people support his proposal to violate the ABM treaty and install a missile defense shield over North America. Please know that a huge number of Americans do NOT support this position, and wish to honor the treaty. More details...

14:11
BILL SARDI: IS AN OIL PIPELINE BEHIND THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN?
Testimony before the US Congress is circulating on the internet. It pertains to a proposed oil pipeline through Central Asia that is applicable to the current war in Afghanistan. More details...

14:00
DRAMA WITH US MEDICAL DEVICE IN CROATIA: 23 PATIENTS DIED
Over the weekend in Croatia, 23 kidney patients died during or after the procedure carried out with a US dialysis device. Last summer, in Spain, 10 people died “with the help” of the same device. More details...

13:20
RAN HACOHEN: WHO CARES ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS?
Dennis Ross, former envoy to the Middle East in the Clinton administration and in Arab eyes an incarnation of the blind American support for Israel, has published a column in the New York Times entitled “Bin Laden's Terrorism Isn't About the Palestinians.” More details...

13:00
IRINA MALENKO: “THE COLOMBIAN TRIO”. TO BE AN IRISHMAN MEANS TO BE GUILTY?
...They are being kept in cages, like animals, and they have even to sleep in turns because of lack of vacant places, though they are lucky, for in other similar cells, 27 people could be kept!.. These lines from Irish ballad “People behind Barbed Wire” come to mind while speaking about the “Colombian Trio." More details...

12:20
AUSTRALIA: FALSE ANTHRAX ALERTS
The Prime Minister reassured the public yesterday after a spate of anthrax scares disrupted offices around Australia. More details...

11:25
MUBARAK: ISRAEL TO BLAME
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has made declarations on Israeli television claiming that the State of Israel is the cause of international terrorism. More details...

11:19
BRAZIL: FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE HALTS MEAT EXPORTS
13 million head of cattle vaccinated and 1,118 slaughtered was not enough to halt the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease spreading through one of Brazil’s prime cattle-raising areas, Rio Grande do Sul. More details...

11:03
FIFTY-EIGHT PRO-HITLER FASCISTS ARRESTED IN GERMANY
German police broke up a meeting of Neo-Nazi fascists in Germany’s Brandenburg state. The result was violence which led to 58 arrests. More details...

11:02
ABU SAYYAF THREATENS TO KILL AMERICANS
Abu Sayyaf, the extremist Islamist terrorist group in the Philippines, has threatened to kill two American missionaries it has been holding for the past 6 months if the Filipino army does not stop its offensive. More details...

20:54
IRINA MALENKO: CONFLICTING DATA ABOUT 200 KILLED IN NIGERIA OVER ANTI-U.S. PROTESTS
The Dutch press reported today that about 200 Muslim people died in the town of Kano (north Nigeria) last weekend as a result of “brutal clash between the Muslim and Christian groups.” More details...

20:38
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19:36
SERGEY BORISOV: BIN LADEN HIDES MONEY IN HONEY
Terrorist number one does not only deal with weapons, drugs, and acts of terrorism undermining USA’s power and authority. Bin Laden also sells honey More details...

19:16
NICHOLAS ABBEY PREVENTING TERRORISM, TOWARDS A NEW APPROACH
In the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11 and military strikes against Afghanistan, the danger looms of an endless cycle of violence and retribution. More details...

18:55
ANDREY LUBENSKY: UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT THANKS RUSSIA FOR PLANE CRASH INVESTIGATION. HOWEVER, STILL NO HASTY CONCLUSIONS
On Sunday Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma said that the most probable reason of the Russian Tu-154 plane crash was a missile that hit the plane during the military exercise in the Crimea More details...

16:58
GEORGIAN PRESIDENT TO USE UKRAINE AND USA TO SUPPRESS RUSSIA
The President of the republic of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze, released several statements that could be considered sensational. First of all, the president of the republic accepted that there are Chechen gunmen waging war on the territory of the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia More details...

15:30
SOLDIERS OF THE SECOND CHECHEN WAR REJECT PSYCHOTHERAPISTS’ HELP. THEY WANT TO SUBMACHINE-GUN EVERYBODY
Specialists of regional centers of social and psychological rehabilitation for soldiers returning from “hot spots” have been confronted with serious troubles. Soldiers and officers who have recently returned from Chechnya more and more often refuse to visit psychotherapists and to receive social aid. More details...

15:14
CHRIS DELISO: AMERICAN MUSLIMS SENSE A NEW POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY
Among the many groups trying to gain from the fallout of September 11th are the Muslims of the US. In a seemingly paradoxical strategy, American Muslims are seeking to capitalize on the current anti-Islamic sentiment, by proclaiming the need for education about Islam and by announcing their political goals - including the possibility of a Muslim-American president by the year 2020. More details...

14:30
AUSTRALIA: SUSPICIOUS LETTERS DISCOVERED
Australian Police was busy today attending to numerous cases of suspicious mail believed to contain the anthrax virus. Parcels delivered to government offices and private corporations caused a widespread disruption in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Townsville. More details...

14:25
OUR READER JONATHAN FRASER: A PREDICTION OF WHAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN THE FOLLOWING MONTHS
As U.S. led strikes continue in Afghanistan, the possibility of retaliatory strikes on the United States grows by the hour. In the presence of a massive hostile threat to its sovereignty, an ultimatum was issued (but not reported by Western media) by the N.G.O's of the Moslem world similar to that issued by the then U.S. More details...

14:05
COMMUNICATION MINISTER OF MASKHADOV KILLED IN CHECHNYA
Yesterday, in outskirts of Kerla-Shauni settlement, bandit formations leaded by Ali Dimaev, communication minister of Maskhadov’s government, committed an attack on a mobile police group. As a result of the fight, the band was annihilated, including the “minister” himself. One of the militants was taken prisoner. More details...