14:06
72 DEAD IN TURKISH PRISONS
Seventy two Marxist-Leninist political prisoners have died in a hunger strike in Turkish prisons since October last year. More details...

13:10
AMERICAN SPECIAL FORCES FINISHED THE FIRST GROUND OPERATION IN AFGHANISTAN
A group of American commandos finished the first land operation on Afghanistan’s territory on Saturday. A Pentagon spokesman has reported this to the American media on the condition of anonymity More details...

11:58
VIETNAM SUFFERS HUGE FLOOD
The flood in Southern provinces of Vietnam has claimed the life of 302 people, including 238 children More details...

21:55
ISRAELI TOURISM MINISTER IS KILLED ISRAEL MAY STOP LOOKING BACK ON U.S.A.
The assassination of the Israeli Minister for Tourism, Rehavam Zeevi cast doubt on setting up peace in the Middle East. The USA would like it a lot - to achieve the peace as soon as possible More details...

20:58
FROM NOW ON THE LETTERS WITH WHITE POWDER WILL BE REFERRED TO “ANONYMOUS THREAT OF A TERROR ACT”
The white powder “mania” is continuing all over the world, Russia is not an exception. There were official “white powder” proceedings started only once – after a Moscow firm received such mail More details...

19:19
KAMCHATKA'S AVACHINSKI VOLCANO MAY ERUPT
The Avachinski volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula, in the Far Eastern region of Russia, goes on getting ready to erupt: in the last 24 hours over ten local earth tremors of between 0.5 and 1.5 magnitude on the Richter scale have been registered 700 meters from its top and inside the cupola More details...

18:56
ANTHRAX POWDER DISCOVERED IN U.S. IS OF LOCAL ORIGIN -- RUSSIAN SCIENTIST
Powder containing anthrax spores, which is being more and more widely mailed in the United States, is of American origin. This viewpoint was voiced at a Friday press conference in Moscow by Mels Turianov More details...

12:56
THE RIGHT PONTOON LINKED TO THE GIANT-4 - KURSK CHAIN
A second, right pontoon has been linked to the Barge Giant-4 - Kursk system in the Belokamennaya Bay of the Kola Gulf in the night of October 18-19. More details...

20:02
IRINA MALENKO: AMERICAN SOLDIERS BEAT PORTUGUESE MILITARY MAN
American soldiers assaulted a military man from Portugal, who saluted to Osama bin Laden for fun when he appeared on a TV screen of NATO’s Lajes army base situated on the Portugal Azores island More details...

19:27
ANDREI LUBENSKY: WHITE POWDER FOUND IN UKRAINE
An envelope with suspicious white powder was found at the customs checkpoint in the town of Glukhov of the Sumskaya region of Ukraine More details...

18:49
LAST BURNING OIL WELL PUT OUT IN CHECHNYA
On October 18 the last burning oil well has been extinguished in Chechnya. There were 40 such burning oil wells there More details...

16:58
PALESTINIANS DO NOT INTEND TO EXTRADITE MURDERERS OF MINISTER OF TOURISM TO ISRAEL
The Palestinians do not intend to extradite to Israel the murderers of Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi, said Ziad Abu Ziad, member of the leadership of the Palestinian National Authority More details...

16:55
RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS TAKING MEASURES TO PREVENT ANTHRAX FROM SPREADING BY MAIL
Russia's Ministry of Communications is making every effort to prevent anthrax from spreading by mail, minister Leonid Reiman has said. "Luckily, we have had no such incidents so far," he added More details...

16:43
KHABAROVSK REGION STILL SWEPT BY FOREST FIRES
Twelve forest fires, including eight large ones, have been registered in the Khabarovsk Region (Russia's Far East). The total area of burning forests now stands at 10,042 hectares More details...

20:35
YASSER ARAFAT ORDERS ARREST OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN ASSASSINATING ISRAEL'S MINISTER OF TOURISM
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has ordered an investigation and the arrest of all people who carried out and masterminded the assassination in East Jerusalem of Rehavam Zeevi, Israel's Minister for Tourism More details...

20:24
ANTHRAX SPREADING IN USA. 20 MORE PEOPLE INFECTED
The number of people infected with anthrax has increased rather considerably today in America. Washington officially declared yesterday, there were eight people who fell ill and were hospitalized More details...

18:37
GERMAN HUMANITARIAN AID CARGO FOR KALININGRAD FOUND CONTAINING POISONS, EXPLOSIVES
On the border with the Kaliningrad region Russian customs officers discovered poisons and explosives in a shipment of humanitarian aid from Germany More details...

15:48
INSTALLATION OF PONTOONS UNDER GIANT-4 WITH KURSK ATTACHED, MAY BE COMPLETED BY END OF WEEK
The left pontoon will be installed under the two-vessel system consisting of the Giant-4 pontoon and the Kursk nuclear submarine, on Wednesday, Vladimir Navrotsky, the Chief of the Russian Northern Fleet press service, was quoted as saying. More details...

12:13
PRESIDENT PUTIN TO GO TO US IN MID-NOVEMBER
The visit by the Russian President Vladimir Putin to the US is expected in mid-November, US Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans has said at today's press-conference. According to him, the Russian head of state will hold meetings in the US Congress and meet American businessmen during his visit. More details...

16:09
KURCHALOI MOSQUE IMAM SHOT
Another clergyman was killed in Chechnya. In the village of Regita, Kurchaloi district of Chechnya, bandits killed the imam of the local mosque, Selimsoltan-Khaji, said the head of the district's administration, Makkal Taramov. The clergyman was shot on his way home after the services.

14:29
COMPLETION OF OPERATION TO RAISE KURSK IS TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF ITS CREW
The completion of the operation to raise the nuclear submarine Kursk signifies not only that the promise given to relatives of its crew was kept. It is also a tribute to the memory of the men who died, said Igor Dygalo, Assistant to the Russian Navy Commander in Chief, Tuesday. More details...

13:50
CRIMINAL CASE ON THE FACT OF THE CRASH OF RUSSIAN AIR LINER INITIATED IN UKRAINE
At a plenary meeting on Tuesday the Ukrainian parliament backed the inquiry by the deputies to Prosecutor-General of Ukraine Mikhail Potrebenko on launching a criminal case on the fact of the crash of the Russian air liner Tu-154. 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...

19:28
23 CONTAINERS OF PLUTONIUM SEIZED IN TBILISI
Georgia's security service has seized 23 containers of radioactive plutonium from natural persons in Tbilisi. The above amount of plutonium costs roughly $65,000 More details...

13:01
PREPARATIONS FOR FINAL INSTALLATION OF PONTOONS UNDER TWO-VESSEL SYSTEM TO ENTER FINAL STAGE
Chief of the Press Service at the Russian Northern Fleet Vladimir Navrotsky reported Monday that preparatory works on final installation of the pontoons under the two-vessel system consisting of the Giant-4 pontoon and the Kursk nuclear submarine, were under way in the Belokamenka Bay of the Kola peninsula. More details...

11:02
HORRIFIC BOMBING ACCIDENT IN AFGHANISTAN
Footage from cameramen invited by the Taliban authorities to the village of Ohorum show a powerful American bomb, unexploded, and a series of destroyed houses in what is obviously a civilian area. More details...

18:56
RELEASE OF TWO RUSSIAN ENTOMOLOGISTS, ARRESTED IN INDIA FOR ILLICIT CATCHING OF INSECTS
Two Russian entomologists arrested in Sikkim, India, for illicit catching of insects have been released and the criminal case against them closed, said Russia's Consul General in Calcutta Alexei Zolotukhin on Sunday. More details...

14:29
KURSK SUB WRECKS TO BE VIEWED BY JOURNALISTS
The wrecked Kursk nuclear-powered submarine will be shown to journalists, said Vyacheslav Popov, commander of the Russian Northern fleet, at a recent press conference. It was held at the press center of the international Kursk rescue task force. More details...

14:12
RUSSIA'S NAVY TO GET NEW NUCLEAR SUBMARINE, GEPARD
A new nuclear-powered submarine, Gepard, will enter the inventories of the Russian Navy, said Vyacheslav Popov, commander of the Russian Northern fleet, at a press conference Sunday. More details...

13:01
KURSK DEATH SITE STILL OUT-OF-LIMITS FOR NAVIGATION
The death site of the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine will still be closed for navigation, said Vyacheslav Popov, commander of the Northern fleet. He spoke at a Sunday news conference in Murmansk of the press center of the international Kursk rescue task force. More details...