20:40
CARLA DEL PONTE PRESSURIZES BELGRADE: SERBIA�S INCUMBENT PRESIDENT MAY FOLLOW MILOSEVIC
The Hague Tribunal�s Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte is arriving today in Belgrade. Her visit is aimed to make the Serbian authorities extradite about a dozen of persons suspected of committing war crimes. Among them are Serbia�s incumbent President and Yugoslavia�s former internal affairs minister Milan Milutinovic, and also three former and incumbent army commanders More detail...

19:51
ANDREI KRUSHINSKY: IS IT POSSIBLE TO BREAK THE KOREAN GORDIAN KNOT?
Jiang Zemin�s arrival in Pyongyang was a beginning of the new time in the complicated struggle of interests around the Korean reunion. Jiang Zemin landed in Pyongyang at midday today More detail...

17:53
ROMAN FOMIN: S-80 SUBMARINE SANK IN BARENTS SEA 40 YEARS AGO. NOT FAR FROM THE PLACE OF THE KURSK TRAGEDY
A part of the hull of the Kursk submarine which sank on August 12, 2000 is being retrieved currently in the Barents Sea. Meanwhile a similar tragedy happened 40 years ago, on the site where the Kursk sank. The S-80 submarine sank January 27, 1961 right on the same training area of the Barents Sea, in the same square carrying 68 men aboard More detail...

17:12
PALESTINIANS START TO AVENGE ABU ALI MUSTAFA�S DEATH. 4 TERRORIST ATTACKS IN JERUSALEM
Radical Palestinian organizatgions have started to revenge for the death of the leader of the People�s Liberation Front killed as a result of the Israeli air force�s strike on July 27th. Four bombs exploded in and around Jerusalem early on Monday, slightly injuring at least four people More detail...

16:14
SERGEI BORISOV: PALESTINIAN VILLAGERS MOURN JEW�S DEATH
It is a rare occurrence now when an Israeli can afford walking up and down a Palestinian village on the West bank alone and unarmed. It is an even rarer occurrence, when a Jew can afford residing in a Palestinian village. Amos Tajouri was such. More detail...

14:30
AUSTRALIA GIVES OPEN PASSAGE TO AFGHAN REFUGEES. THOUGH NOT TO ALL OF THEM
The drama with 438 Afghan refugees trying to get to Australia by Tampa cargo ship is going on. Last Sunday, Australian prime-minister John Howard announced all the refugees would transported by Manora Australian military vessel to Papua New Guinea and than by planes to Nauru Island and to New Zealand. More detail...

14:00
RAYMOND K.KENT: THE BALKANS, BLOWBACK AND BODYBAGS
"Blowback" is the CIA-coined term for an unpleasant reality: foreign mercenaries, trained to fight America's wars so as to minimize or eliminate U.S. casualties, have a tendency to turn against the United States as political situations change. Afghanistan is often cited as the classic example of this reality, and this experience has started to dominate the thinking about the Albanian "bastard army" created by the CIA and the Pentagon for the ground invasion of Serbia under Milosevic. This invasion did not materialize -- the Serb Third Army and police left Kosovo to NATO troops and a United Nations Administration without any real ground combat. More detail...

13:25
EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE ISS: CONTRA-SEX FOR ASTRONAUTS. IS THERE SEX IN THE ORBIT?
Now it looks like there is. It is not known, whether intimacy took place on board of �Mir� space station. And it hardly will be known any time. It is not usual for Russians to speak aloud about sexual adventures. In the West it is another thing. More detail...

12:20
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT OVER RUSSIAN TERRITORY. CHINESE AIRCRAFT TRAINING?
A serious incident has taken place on Russian-Chinese border. An unidentified flying vessel has intruded into Russian territory. It is not clear yet whether it was a reconnaissance aircraft or a result of navigator�s mistake. It looks like state belonging and the aircraft�s class are unknown. The information is very discrepant and comes solely from �informed sources�. More detail...

11:03
E-DAY: THE MOST AUDACIOUS MONETARY ACT EVER
E-Day will come on 1st January 2002, the day when 14.5 billion banknotes and 50 billion coins bearing the Euro denomination substitute the national currencies in the 12 members of Euroland. More detail...

11:02
BUSH MILLS ON THE ROCKS
Due to George Bush�s 1.35 trillion USD tax cuts, the Republican Administration seems to be having trouble finding a paltry 18bn.USD to add to the 329bn.USD defence budget for 2002. More detail...

11:00
ANDREI LUBENSKI: UKRAINIAN SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS BUILD �STAR BRIDGE�
In the city of Volgograd conference of science fiction fans �Volgakon� has just finished its work. Two Ukrainian authors already known to PRAVDA.Ru readers Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhenski (who work under the pseudonym Henry Lion Oldie) have been marked off with a prize for information leaflet of Ukrainian science fiction �OldNews�. More detail...

19:41
BRAZIL: ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
One by one they fall, like the proverbial ten green bottles standing on the wall. This time it is the ex-Senator Luiz Estevao, who has been arrested for obstructing justice � and released for a bail of 85 USD. More detail...

18:13
MACEDONIAN PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES CHANGING CONSTITUTION. RESULTS NOT PREDICTABLE
Today at a special sitting Macedonian Parliament is intending to discuss ratification of peace agreement concluded on August 13 between representatives of main Macedonian ethnic groups and inserting amendments into the new constitution. More detail...

17:58
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY: EAST TIMORESE GIVE WORLD A LESSON IN DEMOCRACY
The Maubere population of East Timor, the world�s youngest nation, have given the international community a lesson in democracy, with a 93% turn-out at the ballot box to vote for their first Legislative Assembly. More detail...

17:46
ARAFAT-PERES MEETING DUE NEXT WEEK?
A meeting between Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian National Authority, and Shimon Peres, Foreign Minister of Israel, may take place in between September 4 and 9. But only in case Israel's hawks give this opportunity to Peres. It is nobody's secret that Shimon Peres with his peaceable views constitutes a minority in the Israeli government, predominated by belligerent nationalists. More detail...

17:37
OPEN NORDIC DIMENSION TO THIRD COUNTRIES' INVESTORS, CALLS RUSSIA
It will be lucrative to open the Nordic Dimension to capital inflow from third countries, attract the European Investment Bank to it, and pool in TACIS and FARE funds for transnational projects, Alexander Avdeyev, Russia's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, said yesterday in the context of President Vladimir Putin starting an official visit to Finland today. More detail...

20:20
MICHAEL PEIRCE: IN THE WAY OF FREEDOM
It is the simple fact that in the world that we are living in, freedom requires that very warrior ethic we seem to assume is the exclusive province of national military forces. To assume that someone else will protect your rights is sadly incorrect and we are seeing the evidence of it as our freedoms erode More detail...

15:53
CRIMINAL AND VICTIM
What must be the penalty for a driver who run over a person that got as a result to hospital because of his leg�s fracture. Do not hasten to answer. This crime could be no crime at all, or... Let us see. More detail...

15:05
DRIVER MISSED BY SLEEPING ALL THE BEER
Workers of Internal Affairs Office of Kargad suspect of theft the whole male population of the city. More detail...

14:35
854TH MOSCOW�S BIRTHDAY. OVER 5 THOUSAND HOLIDAY ACTIONS PLANNED FOR TODAY
Moscow is 854 years old. For today over 5 thousand holiday actions are planned devoted to the City Day. Russian president Vladimir Putin will also take part in the ceremony of the festival�s official opening. More detail...

13:30
CURRENCY REVOLUTION IN BALKANS: IN KOSOVO EURO TO BE INTRODUCE INTO PRACTICE
Next year, on January 2, the euro will become an official monetary unit in Kosovo. Official representatives of European Union say, this step will promote Kosovo�s integration in Europe. For Yugoslavia it means an almost final loss of its territory. More detail...

12:10
AUSTRALIA: TAMPA ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS � A SOLUTION?
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Saturday that New Zealand and the Pacific island of Nauru had agreed to take the more than 400 asylum seekers stranded on a Norwegian container vessel in the Indian Ocean. More detail...

11:05
MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE ARMS SMUGGLED TO CROATIA
The ex-president of Argentina, Carlos Menem, has been notified by a judge of a case to be opened against him for suspected arms trafficking to Croatia in 1993. More detail...

11:04
DEFIANT MILOSEVIC STANDS FIRM
A defiant and resolute Slobodan Milosevic stood firm against his accusers at the Hague Tribunal, accusing Washington of attempted murder and the Hague itself of being a false tribunal which had violated his personal rights. More detail...

11:03
BRAZILIAN BILLIONAIRE LIVES WEEK OF HORROR
A Brazilian billionaire lived a week to forget � after his daughter disappeared, it was discovered that she had been kidnapped. One day after he had paid the ransom and she was released, it was the father�s turn. More detail...

11:02
AIRBUS INCIDENT IN AZORES ISLANDS
The company Airbus has issued a warning to all airlines about a possible danger in the fuel injection system which has hitherto gone undetected after a near mid-Atlantic disaster in the Portuguese Azores islands. More detail...

10:36
AND YOU CAN MARRY AGAIN!
In district hospital in village Yashkino in region of Kuznetsk Basin a unique procedure is being carried out since recent times. Local doctors state there has not been anything of the kind not only in hospitals of Kuznetsk Basin, but in all Russian clinics as well. More detail...

20:54
LEVI�S JEANS PRESENT HEALTH HAZARD
In Great Britain, the latest shipment of clothes produced by the famous Levi�s firm is being removed from sale for fear of the textile�s hazardous effect on human health. More detail...

19:48
SAM KORITZ: THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF IAN COLLINS
Newspapers from different nations will often report the same story quite differently, as we can see from Reality Macedonia's translation of an article originally published in the Macedonian newspaper, Dnevnik, which offers a perspective on the death of British soldier Ian Collins that can't be found in the British or American press. More detail...