20:36
ISLAMABAD ORDERS TO MILITANTS ACTING IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR TO MOVE TO AFGHANISTAN
Islamabad has ordered to three or four thousand militants acting on territory of Jammu and Kashmir to move to Afghanistan, Indian Defence Ministry�s official reported on Monday. More details...

20:23
LENIN�S HEAD NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED
The second most important place of interest (Lake Baikal comes first) in the capital of the republic of Buryatia: World proletarian leader Vladimir Lenin�s gigantic head is going to be repaired More details...

19:51
ANATOLI BARANOV: UNTIMELY THOUGHTS AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE TWINS
Attention to the details is the speciality of a spy. However, this is the case not only for the spy. It is also a distinguishing feature of a journalist. Journalists are often attentive to details. So, what defines the terrorist act�s object in New York? Namely, why the twins? More details...

19:20
THE RAISING OF THE KURSK: HOW WILL IT BE DONE?
A very complex operation to retrieve the sunken Kursk submarine from the bottom of the Barents Sea is entering its final stage. The Russian side of the project together with the Dutch company Mammoet announced that the submarine would be raised on September 15, but then it was announced that the date would be September 25. Now the date has been delayed once again, to September 29. More details...

18:11
ANDREI KRUSHINSKY: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS� NEW DISCLOSURES
The essay entitled �American society can outlast or absorb practically anything," signed by Christopher Hitchens, was inspired by the �black Tuesday in the U.S.� and published in the London Independent newspaper on September 16 More details...

16:40
SUNITA MENON: AEROFLOT JET CRASH-LANDS AT DUBAI AS ENGINE CATCHES FIRE
Over 300 passengers on board an Aeroflot aircraft had a narrow escape last night when one engine caught fire and the plane crash-landed at Dubai International Airport. More details...

16:20
A.H.AMIN: THE INDO-PAK ARMIES AND THEIR MERCENARY CALLING
As the adage aptly describes, there is nothing worse than to do the right thing for the wrong reason. We may modify it slightly by rephrasing it as doing the right thing, or the supposedly right thing, for the wrong reason! More details...

15:40
J. DAVID GALLAND: THE STORM OF RETRIBUTION TO COME
Approximately ten days from today, the final execution of the plan which will be, �the beginning of the end�, for Osama bin Laden, and his consorts of the most vicious character, will come knocking as a heavy handed redeemer. I can further assure the reader, that this wide ranging culling, of the most dangerous man on earth, will not be an autonomous action. There will be implications and a high price! More details...

14:40
YURI RAZGULYAYEV: TENSION GROWS IN CENTRAL ASIA
Kyrghyzstan, as well as other Central-Asian countries, will render assistance to Afghanistan�s Northern Alliance, Tashtemir Aitbayev, the Kyrghyz foreign minister is quoted as saying. More details...

14:30
OUR READER JACOB LEVICH: HAPPY NEW YEAR: IT'S 1984BUSH'S ALARMING SPEECH POINTED TO A SHADOWY ENEMY THAT LURKS IN MORE 60 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE US
Seventeen years later than expected, 1984 has arrived. In his address to Congress Thursday, George Bush effectively declared permanent war -- war without temporal or geographic limits; war without clear goals; war against a vaguely defined and constantly shifting enemy. Today it's Al-Qaida; tomorrow it may be Afghanistan; next year, it could be Iraq or Cuba or Chechnya. More details...

14:21
OUR READER NEIL RICHARDS: I SEE THAT WHATEVER AMERICA DOES, SOMEONE WILL BE THERE TO TELL US HOW WRONG AND HOW EVIL WE ARE
Seems that when we intervened to prevent Slobodan Milosevic from murdering hundreds of thousands of Muslim Kosovars in the name of Serbian nationalism (i.e. ethnic cleansing), we did so in concert with Osama bin Laden and together we planned a network of terrorists that ultimately will explain the thousands of people who now lay buried beneath the rubble in downtown Manhattan. This is of course a curious and morbid fantasy on the part of one of PRAVDA.Ru's pretend journalists, but hey... being blamed for being too pro-Muslim is a refeshing break from the deluge of being blamed for being too anti-Muslim. Visit to Letters to the Editor

14:02
RAN HACOHEN: DANCING IN THE STREETS
One moment before the Sons of Light wage war on the Sons of Darkness, when the former are purported to be "the Judeo-Christian Culture," whereas the latter, "the Arab-Moslem Culture," is identified with suicide bombers as its inherent, constitutive trait, let us commemorate the first suicide bomber, who prayed to God to die killing thousands. More details...

12:29
�THERE ARE WOMEN IN RUSSIAN VILLAGES��
The first woman security guard appeared in the city of Nizhni Novgorod in central Russia. She works at one of the city markets. A 20-year-old Olesya Zhulyayva moved to Nizhni from Krasnodar, southern Russia. She just read an ad, called, passed an interview, and was found fit for this typically man�s job, since she earlier went through necessary training More details...

12:05
MARCIA MIRANDA: BRAZIL. SWEETENERS BEFORE ELECTIONS
As usual, and totally predictable, the Brazilian government is starting to give out artificial sweeteners in the run-up to next year�s presidential elections. More details...

11:06
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY: UNITA OFFENSIVE CLAIMS 312 VICTIMS
The 40-year civil war in Angola rages on without any sign of ceasefire. More details...

10:31
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH WOULD OPPOSE MASS BOMBARDMENT OF AFGHANISTAN
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexei II, specified his attitude yesterday towards the events occurring around Afghanistan. He stated that a �war between Christianity and Islam cannot be allowed.� More details...

10:02
FINANCE AND TERRORISM: TO GO OFFSHORES?
After the terrorist attack on New York and Washington, offshore investment institutions come into the spotlight. More details...

18:28
NATO COUNTRIES RECONNOITRE DEAD SUB SITE AS LIFT DRAWS NEAR
NATO countries are whipping up reconnaissance in the Kursk nuclear submarine wreck area as its lift is approaching, says Vice-Admiral Mikhail Motsak, operation commander. More details...

18:08
MACEDONIA: NATO SOLDIERS COLLECT REBEL ARMS
Operation Essential Harvest is underway as several hundred NATO soldiers go on collecting arms from ethnic Albanian rebels near Otle village, west of Kumanovo, report Mark Latey and Barry Johnson, respective civilian and military NATO spokesmen. More details...

17:57
FIGHTS IN AFGHANISTAN'S NORTH - NORTHERN ALLIANCE FORCES PRESS TALIBAN
Fights between the Northern Alliance forces and the Taliban continued in the provinces of Balkh, Samangan and Takhar in the north of Afghanistan Sunday, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. More details...

17:01
EVIDENCES OF OSAMA BIN LADEN'S FIGHTERS' PARTICIPATION IN TERRORIST ACTIONS IN MACEDONIA
Macedonian Interior Ministry top official Zoran Drndarovski said there were evidences of Osama bin Laden's fighters' participation in terrorist actions in Macedonia's north and west, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. More details...

16:37
AFGHANISTAN: FOREIGN FIGHTERS ABANDON CAMPS TO DISPERSE
All alien paramilitaries left Afghan bases financed by Osama bin Laden and his group Al-Kaida to disperse all over the country, Dawn newspaper reports in its Sunday issue with reference to Afghan sources. More details...

15:34
DAGESTANIS GIVE UP HOUSEHOLD ARSENALS
The Interior Ministry of Dagestan, a North Caucasian republic within the Russian Federation, which borders on Chechnya, launched an arms surrender campaign last night as part of emergency operation Storm/Anti-terror. More details...

13:51
TALIBAN DOOMED, SAYS PAKISTANI PAPER. KING TO COME BACK?
US strikes on Afghanistan are inevitable, and will quite soon overthrow the Taliban, says the Peshawar-based Frontier Post. More details...

19:51
MAN SELLS FATHER
A Chinese man sold his father for 1,300 USD to arrange money to pay for treatment for a venereal disease. More details...

19:48
PORTUGAL: DOGS ARE A BOY�S BEST FRIEND
A five-year-old boy in Portugal already has a story to tell his grandchildren: how he was saved from the elements by three dogs which slept on top of him to keep him warm. More details...

18:59
BALKANS: ALBANIANS PREPARE TERRORIST ATTACK AS LINK WITH BIN LADEN IS EXPOSED
The Albanian terrorist groups, Black Eagles and Cobra, are planning a devastating attack on Belgrade, according to sources in the Serbian police force. Meanwhile, Bin Laden�s links with the Albanian terrorists, whose other main sponsor is the USA, have now become clear. More details...

18:55
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY: INTERNATIONAL CHESS
The WTC bombing spells a new Clausewitzian order, that controlled by the individual as the State loses the prerogative to manage conflict in a sole right capacity and the �old order� military response gives way to a �new order� reaction. More details...

17:31
COMPROMISE: MOST DEMOCRATIC ANTHEM MADE UP IN ALTAY REGION
The new anthem has been finally approved by the parliament of the republic of Altay. Its 3 verses will be performed in the Altay language and the remaining 2 � in Russian More details...

16:14
FLIGHT RECORDER PROVED FIGHT ON BOARD OF HIJACKED PLANE THAT CRASHED IN PENNSYLVANIA
The recovered flight recorders proved a fight which took place on board the airliner that was hijacked on September 11 and crashed down in Pennsylvania More details...