17:49
CONDOLEEZZA RICE: GEORGE BUSH PAYS GREAT ATTENTION TO HIS FORTHCOMING MEETING WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN IN SHANGHAI
George Bush pays a great deal of attention to his forthcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin in Shanghai. A statement to this effect was made by Condoleezza Rice, special assistant to the U.S. president for national security affairs, in an exclusive interview to the Izvestia daily to be published Monday. More details...

17:09
ALBANIAN MILITANTS PREVENT THE COMEBACK OF MACEDONIAN REFUGEES
Last night, Albanian militants from the officially disbanded National Liberation Army launched wild firing from time to time in various settlements near the town of Tetovo. The Macedonian security forces didn't retaliate, in keeping with the terms of the truce. More details...

15:43
THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE'S ARTILLERY IN THE PROVINCE OF TAKHAR MADE STRIKES ON THE TALIBAN'S RESERVES
In the Takhar direction (Takhar is a north-eastern province of Afghanistan bordering on Tajikistan), the artillery of the Northern Alliance shelled the advancing Taliban reserves. This information was presented by General Naim Nuri, artillery commander of the United Front. More details...

14:45
ABKHAZIA SETS UP IN-DEPTH DEFENSE IN SOUTHERN KODOR GORGE
The Abkhaz military "are taking all steps to prevent arrival of Georgian interior units as help to militants blocked in the south of the Kodor Gorge," said Major Matbei Zantaria by telephone Sunday. He is a public relations officer of the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia. More details...

11:24
MARCIA MIRANDA: ONE SIXTH OF SOUTH AMERICANS LIVE IN MISERY
The latest statistics revealed by the World Food Programme show that one sixth of the inhabitants of South America live in misery, without having access to the minimum required levels of nutrients necessary for good health. More details...

11:16
THE PARLIAMENT OF ABKHAZIA APPEALED FOR HELP TO THE PARLIAMENTS OF RUSSIA, THE UNITED STATES, BRITAIN, FRANCE AND GERMANY
The parliament of Abkhazia addressed the parliaments of Russia, the United States, Britain, France and Germany with an appeal to "condemn the position of the Georgian leaders who have taken terrorists under their protection and use their services." More details...

11:09
FASCIST TERRORISM IN COLOMBIA
One week after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) signed a peace agreement with the government, the massacres continue as right-wing paramilitaries murder innocent civilians suspected of having collaborated with FARC. More details...

18:20
BLIND SWIMMER IN COLD WATER FOR WOMAN
The data about the swimmer will be sent to Guinness Book: Valentin Zlobin performed a marathon swimming race in the ice-cold water. Zlobin is blind, he lost his sight due to an injury 30 years ago More details...

17:33
IRINA PETRENKO: UKRAINE’S LATE APOLOGIES
Ukraine admitted that a missile S-200 could hit the Russian passenger airliner that was following the route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk. The head of the anti-missile defense troops admitted that the unpremeditated destruction of Tu-154 plane was a tragic accident More details...

16:25
MILITARY ACTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN ENTERED THE NEW STAGE
The number of casualties from the U.S. strike in Afghanistan reached 200 people. The American planes drop cluster bombs on the heads of the Talibs. There can be different opinions and points of view pertaining to that operation of “retribution,” but soon there will be nothing to bomb More details...

15:53
RUSLAN KHASBULATOV: GREAT AMERICAN TRAGEDY AND WHAT THE WORLD HAS TO DO TO AVOID THE DEATH OF CIVILIZATION. PART II
The world today is like a ship with a big hole in the hull. The world balance has been broken – this process was developing during the entire 20th century and was accelerated during the time of the global contradiction between the 2 superpowers More details...

14:47
JOHN DONNA: SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. WORLD WAR III. NOT SINCE THE 1940S HAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG BEEN SO CLEAR AND THE NEED TO DEFEND FREEDOM SO GREAT
September 11, 2001. World War III. Not since the 1940s has the difference between right and wrong been so clear and the need to defend freedom so great. More details...

14:11
J. DAVID GALLAND: CLUELESS IN THE BALKANS
Why, and how did NATO, formed after World War II to thwart the spread of Communism into the Western World, become so entrenched in the Balkans? Initially, moral justifications drew the West into the Balkans. More details...

14:09
YVONNE WANG CHINA’S POLICY TOWARD AFGHANISTAN: END THIS WAR SOON!
In one of his recent interviews, Prof. Chomsky criticized severely the US intellectuals of their total ignorance of the problems in the Middle East. Equally ignorant are they of China, though many of them readily claim themselves to be “experts on the subject matter”. The cause of such ignorance, I believe, is their inherent academic blindness, non-intellectualness, unwillingness to learn, and arrogance. More details...

14:05
ERNESTO CIENFUEGOS: ZIONIST TERRORISTS ARRESTED INSIDE MEXICAN CONGRESS
We were alerted this morning by a subscriber from Mexico that two Israelis were arrested Wednesday inside the Palacio Legislativo de San LÂzaro (Mexican Congress) in Mexico City. Both were armed with 9 mm automatics and one was carrying a military hand grenade, electrical wiring and other bomb related materials. The Israeli Embassy at Sierra Madre 2155, colonia Lomas de Chapultepec has close its doors to the Mexican Press and are refusing to talk. The incident has been independently verified by La Voz de Aztlan through Mexican diplomatic, press and other sources in Mexico City. More details...

13:45
UKRAINE SURE TU-154 AIRLINER CRASH WILL NOT AFFECT RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA
The Secretary of Ukraine’s Council for National Security and Defense, Yevgeny Marchuk, said in the interview to Russia’s leading media outlets that the high level of confidence between Russia and Ukraine, the tragedy, which took place October 4th with the Russian airliner Tu-154, will not have a negative effect on the relations between the two countries More details...

13:23
ANATOLI BARANOV: OUSTING RUSSIA FROM THE CIS
A sudden change of the situation in the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia coincides with the beginning of the military action in Afghanistan – many analysts have already noticed this strange coincidence. Why did it happen now? More details...

11:09
TALIBAN PREVENT FOOD FROM REACHING TARGET
One food convoy stopped, another allowed to pass. A split in the Taliban ranks? More details...

11:06
KOSOVO: INDEPENDENCE
The main Albanian political parties have a single objective for Kosovo after the elections on November 17th – independence. More details...

11:04
CHEMICAL ATTACK PLANNED FOR FRANCE
The Italian anti-terrorist police foiled a plan to test a toxic chemical in France this week. More details...

11:03
AFGHANISTAN: 6-MONTH OPERATION
The Joint Chief of Staff of the British Armed Forces has declared that the military operation in Afghanistan may last at least until the Summer of 2002. More details...

11:02
AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT IN QUOTES
“We are fighting on all fronts” (George Bush) “Allah will take revenge for us. If they bomb us, God will probably bomb them” (Mohammed Zahir, resident of the village of Qala-e-Chaman, near Kabul) More details...

23:18
SENSATION: PUTIN YIELDS UP ABKHAZIA
Vladimir Putin expressed his point of view on the events that are currently taking place in the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia. Putin’s viewpoint surely contained the state's position on the issue. The speech was sensational! More details...

22:29
SERGEI BORISOV: THE NEW EMIGRATORY POLICY OF THE WEST
There were few doubts that acts of terrorism in the USA would make the governments of many countries re-consider their attitude towards the emigration process. However, the organization International Amnesty called the measures, that are currently being taken, “draconian.” More details...

21:29
IT WOULD BE FUNNY, IF IT WOULDN’T BE THAT SAD
It is early to talk about the clear perspective of how the American operation will be developing in Afghanistan. This was said by NATO top official in Brussels, Friday (the official accompanied NATO’s Secretary-General George Robertson during the trip to Canada and USA October 8-11) More details...

20:45
WAR: GEORGIA ON ITS WAY INTO ABKHAZIA
The country is officially dispatching 700 military men over to the Georgian-Abkhazian border. Simultaneously, the Georgian parliament voted for withdrawal of the Russian peacemakers from Abkhazia More details...

19:56
SHIMON PERES: RUSSIA SHOULD JOIN NATO
The expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance to the East should be started with those countries, which took the side of the USA and Europe in the struggle against terrorism. These countries are Russia, India, China and Japan,” - Israeli Foreign Minister stated More details...

19:09
ANDREY KRUSHINSKY: CHINA’S REPROACH TO AMERICA
China regrets the civilian casualties of the U.S. and British air strikes against Afghanistan, said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi Thursday More details...

18:41
STATE COMMISSION: TU-154 WAS DOWNED. FILE CLOSED?
The chairman of the state commission for investigating the reasons of the Russian Tu-154 plane crash (Sibir airlines), the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Vladimir Rushaylo announced the preliminary results of the commission’s investigation More details...

15:30
ANATOLI BARANOV: 21ST CENTURY WAR FOR THE GREAT SILK WAY
The US and Great Britain’s activities in Mid Asia more and more look like a planned strategy action, in which the 11 September tragedy and the new Afghan war are just temporary attendant circumstances, historical coincidences emphasizing the main sense of what is happening. More details...