18:58
ISRAEL GOES ON DOING AWAY WITH PALESTINIAN LEADERS
Ignoring the opinion of the world public and foreign political leaders who denounce international terror, Israel goes on with its policy of physical destruction of leaders of Palestine. More detail...

18:57
EGYPT'S PRESIDENT, JORDAN'S KING PLACE ON ISRAEL FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR "ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE"
At their negotiations in Alexandria on Saturday, King of Jordan Abdallah II and Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak held an intensive exchange of opinions on the setup in the Middle East in view of the escalating Palestinian-Israeli confrontation. 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...

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...

15:05
PALESTINIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OFFICIAL KILLED IN GAZA STRIP
A deputy head of Palestinian General Intelligence Service Taiseer Khatab has died as a result of injury received in an explosion of his car. More detail...

12:54
DAY OF KNOWLEDGE IN CHECHEN REPUBLIC
On the Day of Knowledge, September 1st, 190,000 children went to school in the Chechen Republic, Russian Federation. 447 schools were prepared to accept students by the start of school year. However, many schools need major repairs of the buildings and heating systems. More detail...

20:58
CHECHNYA TO MARK OIL AND GAS WORKERS DAY
Chechnya is going to mark Oil and Gas Workers Day on Saturday, RIA Novosti was told at the government of that Russian republic. The celebrations will be organised by oil company Grozneftegaz. The republic's best oil workers will be awarded. An official rally is also planned. More detail...

20:02
TWO REBEL GROUPS DEFEATED IN CHECHNYA
Federal forces have defeated two separatist groups in Chechnya's Shelkovsky and Vedensky districts. More detail...

18:29
JUSTICE MINISTRY RULES OUT TALKS WITH CHECHEN SEPARATISTS
The Russian Justice Ministry has flatly ruled out any talks with Chechen separatists. "There can be no compromise with thugs," Deputy Justice Minister Yuri Kalinin told reporters Friday. More detail...

18:08
VLADIMIR PUTIN TO DISCUSS WITH ARIEL SHARON WAYS OF DEFUSING MIDDLE EAST SITUATION
Efforts by Russia and the international community to defuse the situation in the Middle East will be discussed at a meeting between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said Sergei Prikhodko, deputy chief of the Kremlin administration. The meeting between the Russian president and the Israeli prime minister is scheduled for early September. More detail...

17:41
PALESTINE'S NO.2 MAN MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPES DEATH FROM ISRAELI HELICOPTER
One of the leaders of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, supervising the organisation's activities on Palestinian territories, Keis Abdel Kerim escaped death by miracle on Friday when an Israeli helicopter fired on his apartment in Ramallah, said a source in the front's Damascus headquarters. More detail...

17:32
THREE CHECHNYA RESIDENTS DETAINED FOR INVOLVEMENT IN TERRORIST ACTS
Chechnya's law enforcement bodies have detained three residents of Chechnya involved in terrorist acts, the federal security service department for the Chechen Republic said on Friday. Musa Zakiyev and Bislan Kagirmanov were arrested as part of an operation investigating a blast in Gudermes on August 25. More detail...

16:57
CHECHEN SEPARATISTS TRYING TO DISRUPT THE BEGINNING ACADEMIC YEAR IN THE REPUBLIC
Officers of the Federal Security Service /FSB/ Chechen department are taking special measures to avert possible terrorist acts by gunmen who are planning to disrupt the beginning academic year in the local schools. More detail...

16:45
NEBOJSHA MALIC: A DAY TO REMEMBER
Amidst the continuing vivisection of Macedonia, terror in Kosovo and political struggles in Yugoslavia, it was hard this week to remember an important anniversary. Yet it was exactly six years ago, on August 30, 1995, that NATO first entered the Balkans' wars as a combatant More detail...

16:18
CHECHEN SCHOOLS READY TO ADMIT 190,000 CHILDREN
Chechen schools are ready to admit 190,000 children in the new school year, a source in the government apparatus of Russia's North Caucasian republic of Chechnya told RIA Novosti. More detail...

16:16
ENERGY EXPERT KIDNAPPED IN CHECHNYA
An energy expert working for Prikaspiysksetelektrostroy has been kidnapped in Chechnya.Vitaly Dyakov, chief of the 66th mechanized column of Mineralnye Vody, said Friday that energy expert Boyan Dzhednisbayev was reported missing near the Yermolovka village. More detail...

15:45
FEDERATION COUNCIL SPEAKER: VIOLENCE IS NO WAY TO STOP MIDEASTERN CONFLICT
Speaker of Russia's Federation Council Yegor Stroyev thinks the international community, including Russia, must "be more active in urging Israel and Palestine" to stop violence and resume peace talks. More detail...

15:39
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY HOSTS ISRAELI AMBASSADOR
Moscow believes that the Palestinians and the Israeli have to establish regular contacts and decide on specific steps to reach detente, Vasily Sredin, Special Presidential Envoy responsible for the Mid Eastern settlement and Deputy Foreign Minister, was quoted as saying during his meeting with Israeli Ambassador in Russia Natan Meron. More detail...

11:36
6 EXPLOSIVE DEVICES FOUND IN CHECHNYA
Over the past 24 hours, federal forces stationed in Chechnya discovered and defused 6 homemade explosive devices in different parts of the republic, reported Chechen law enforcement authorities on Friday. More detail...

21:08
SERGEI BORISOV: FSU IMMIGRANTS LURED TO ARAB TERRITORIES
Some immigrants from the countries of the former Soviet Union do not even suspect that they live on territories which Palestinians count as theirs. When the peace process was gathered strength, everything was quiet in the Ariel village on the West Bank. More detail...

19:34
NATO: OBJECTIVES REGARDING USSR AND BALKANS
The attack on Yugoslavia and the kidnapping of Milosevic are not random events. They constitute a new phase of the "anti-Eastern" strategy, which Washington has pursued for more than five decades More detail...

18:21
ISRAELI TROOPS BLOCK RAFAH
Israeli troops blocked the Rafah province, the southern part of the Gaza Strip, in the early hours of Thursday. More detail...

17:39
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS U.S. BOMBING OF IRAQI CIVILIAN FACILITIES COMPLICATES SETTLEMENT OF IRAQI PROBLEM
Unlawful U.S. missile and bomb attacks at Iraq's civilian facilities, against which Russia has repeatedly protested, seriously complicate the international community's efforts to settle the Iraqi problem, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Thursday. More detail...

17:37
ARAB WORLD REJECTS ANY ATTEMPTS TO COMPARE CHECHEN AND MIDDLE EAST PROBLEMS
The Arab world rejects any attempts to compare the Chechen and the Middle East problems, said Palestinian Ambassador to Moscow Khairi Al-Oridi at a press-conference. More detail...

17:15
PALESTINE BELIEVES MOSCOW WILL MAKE ALL EFFORTS TO HELP RESUME PEACE-MAKING PROCESS IN MIDDLE EAST
As a Mideastern regulating co-sponsor, Moscow will make all the possible efforts and will use all the possibilities to resume the peace-making process in the course of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon' visit to Moscow, Palestinian Ambassador to Moscow Khairi Abdel Fattah al-Oridi said in a firm belief at a press conference in Moscow Thursday. More detail...

17:03
CHECHEN ADMINISTRATION CHIEF: FORCED MIGRANTS MAY COME BACK TO THE REPUBLIC
Forced migrants may come back to Chechnya /a republic within the Russian Federation/, though their complete safety cannot yet be guaranteed. A RIA Novosti correspondent quoted Akhmad Kadyrov, chief of the Chechen republic's administration, as saying this at a press-conference held in Moscow Thursday. More detail...

16:17
TERRORIST ACTS AS MEANS TO JUSTIFY FOREIGN FUNDING
The background of the terrorist acts in Chechnya (a republic within Russia) is that militants are trying to justify foreign financial aid, Akhmad Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Administration, was quoted as saying at a press conference in Moscow. More detail...

16:12
EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA ON MIDEAST SETTLEMENT
A settlement in the Middle East is possible only provided international efforts and those of the co-sponsors of the peace process are united. This opinion was expressed by Reda Ahmed Shehata, Ambassador of Egypt in the Russian Federation at a press-conference in Moscow. More detail...

16:11
TALIBS ISSUE NEW THREATS
Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Manzur, Aviation Minister of the Taliban government, threatened to close the Afghan aerial space for all international flights including those of the Red Cross and UN aircraft, if UN didn't lift sanctions against the Afghan Aryana airlines. More detail...