Conflicting reports about today's explosions in downtown Kabul continue to come in. As reported by Reuters, citing Deputy Police Chief Mohammed Khalil, the first explosion was weak; the bomb was attached to a bicycle. The second explosion, more powerful, was heard when an explosive device went off in a car parked nearby. According to the same Ms. Khalil, so far it is known about ten dead. However, their number is undoubtedly higher.

Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah said at a specially convened press conference that there was "no doubt" that President Karzai was the target of today's attack in Kandahar. Earlier there were reports that the target of the attack was the governor of Kandahar, Gul Agha Sherzai, who was wounded in the neck during the attack. This is reported by the AP, referring to the testimony of eyewitnesses. Now Sherzai has been taken to the hospital of the US military base located in Kandahar.

The command of the US Navy has acknowledged that the fleet has leased merchant ships to deliver military equipment to the Persian Gulf, AP reports. At the same time, the representative of the press service of the fleet, Marge Holtz, said that this technique was not intended to attack Iraq. According to her, 70 tanks will protect the borders of Kuwait from a possible invasion from Iraq. The United States is moving tanks into the Persian Gulf - 09/04/2002

The concentration of carbon monoxide in Moscow on Thursday morning has reached its maximum values, Yevgenia Semutnikova, deputy head of the Mosecomonitoring State Environmental Institution, told Interfax. She noted that the MPC of carbon monoxide in the air in the capital is exceeded by an average of 2-3 times. Earlier it was reported that in some areas of the city and the region, the concentration of CO reaches 4 MPC.

The fog and smoke of Moscow region fires that enveloped Moscow led to a delay in departures of aircraft from the capital's airports, RIA Novosti reports. According to the shift manager of Domodedovo Airport, weather conditions led to the delay of 7 flights. Due to fog over the capital's Sheremetyevo airport, two aircraft cannot land, in particular, a flight from Syktyvkar. According to the airport administration, these aircraft will be sent to an alternate airfield.

The election committee of the Krasnoyarsk Territory has already recorded more than 400 complaints about various violations during the campaign for the election of the governor. The secretary of the regional electoral committee Larisa Nartovich informed Granyam.Ru about this.

Anatoly Lebedko, Boris Nemtsov On September 4, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Minister Valery Loshchilin, who oversees relations with the CIS states, transferred the Belarusian side to the new integration proposals of President Vladimir Putin.

Domodedovo airport started accepting planes from 11.00 Moscow time on Thursday, Interfax was told by the press service of the East Line airline, which manages the enterprises servicing the airport. On Thursday morning, due to heavy smoke, Domodedovo airport stopped receiving planes. However, later the weather conditions allowed the airport to be opened, and at 11.00 Moscow time it received a flight from Delhi in full compliance with international standards.

On September 4, the corpse of Zaur Khakimov, an investigator for the Department of Particularly Important Cases of the Prosecutor's Office of Tatarstan, was found in the Moskva River in the wake of strangulation, Interfax reports. According to the Kommersant newspaper, which calls Khakimov an investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office, he has recently been investigating a case involving the export of 786 tons of gold worth $1 trillion from Russia.

The Waitrose chain of stores will soon launch a ball-shaped carrot for sale, according to the Daily Express. According to the newspaper, the size of a carrot allows you to put it in a standard school lunch box. The price of a miracle fruit, bred by Parisians back in the 19th century, is 7 times higher than the price of ordinary carrots. The world was filled with mutant carrots - 05/16/2002

11 Massachusetts police departments received envelopes marked "Black September" with white powder inside, CNN reports. Preliminary analyzes showed that the powder does not contain harmful substances. The FBI began searching for the sender of these letters. All envelopes were addressed to the Essex County offices, each of them was intended for a specific officer. Inside the envelopes were slips of paper imprinted with the words "BLACK SEPTEMBER".

Marwan Barghouti, leader of the Palestinian Fatah movement, was charged in an Israeli court on Thursday with murder, belonging to a terrorist organization, possession of weapons and explosives. Barghouti, according to Reuters, pleaded not guilty. Moreover, he does not recognize the court itself. The court session in Tel Aviv was accompanied by riots.

VLADIMIR PUTIN CONSIDERS UNACCEPTABLE TACTICS OF "PEACEFULLY EXTRACTING" TERRORISTS FROM PANKISI GORGE MOSCOW, 5 September. /Corr. RIA News"/. Vladimir Putin considers unacceptable the tactics of "peacefully squeezing" terrorists out of the Pankisi Gorge. This, as RIA Novosti was informed in the Kremlin press service, is stated in the message of the President of Russia to the President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze.

Spartak general manager Alexander Hadzhi is satisfied with the decision of the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union on the Sychev case. He stated this on Wednesday to the RIA Novosti agency.

The former chief of the Georgian security service of Georgia, Igor Georgadze, said that he knows who bombed the territory of the Pankisi Gorge. "This is yet another provocation by Shevardnadze. I won't go into details. I declare that it was not Russia that bombed Georgia. If I continue to go into details, Georgia will understand my sources of information," Georgadze said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper, which will be released on Thursday .