At the mines in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, two miners died under the rubble. As RIA Novosti was informed in the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, at about 3.55 local time (4.55 Moscow time) on Monday in the city of Torez at the Progress mine, a 43-year-old miner died due to rock collapse. The body of a 41-year-old miner was found the night before in the city of Yenakiyevo at the Bulavinskaya mine under a collapsed roof.

In the village of Shamil-Yurt in the Vedensky district of Chechnya, the organizer of the terrorist attack in Grozny, in which the President of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov died on May 9, 2004, was killed. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Monday by Ramzan Kadyrov, the first deputy chairman of the republic's government. In addition, according to him, 17 more militants from Shamil Basayev's gang were killed during the operation.

The movement of ships along the Suez Canal was completely paralyzed for the second day because of a Liberian tanker that ran aground. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated to journalists in Cairo by the representative of the directorate of the channel for press relations Faruk Suveylim. According to him, the Tropic Brilliance tanker, which holds 85,000 tons of crude oil, ran aground near the city of Ismailia on Sunday morning, November 7, blocking the fairway.

A group of children who survived the tragedy in Beslan arrived in the Israeli city of Ashkelon for treatment and rest, RIA Novosti reports. For three weeks, 18 children and 17 accompanying people will be guests at numerous cultural events, travel around the country, and relax on the Mediterranean coast. Several children will undergo a course of rehabilitation after treatment for burns of varying severity, and two from shrapnel wounds received in the Beslan school.

Fight in El Falludge. Photo by ar The American and Iraqi troops probably began the first stage of attacking the Iraqi city of El Falluja, held by the rebels, reports BBC. According to reports from the scene, the coalition forces captured the main city hospital, as well as strategically important bridges through the Euphrates. Canon and shootings from small arms are heard throughout the city.

Residents of the KCR who disappeared on the night of October 11. Photo from the site TASS A burial was found in Karachay-Cherkessia, where the bodies of seven missing inhabitants of Cherkessk are supposedly located. They were found in a mountain mine at the village of Kumysh, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the representative of the power structures of the republic. On Monday, the remains of four people removed the remains of four, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax.

A night robber stole a briefcase with secret documents from the home of Estonian Defense Minister Margus Hanson, Interfax reports. The thief broke into the minister's private house in the city of Tartu on October 31, when the head of the defense department himself was sleeping on the second floor, the Postimees newspaper reported on Monday. The robber broke the front door and stole a briefcase containing a wallet, bank cards and documents.

Musicians of the Mariinsky Theater gave a charity concert in London to raise funds in favor of the children of Beslan, RIA Novosti reports. The concert took place in the building of the London Coliseum (it is occupied by the English National Opera). The back of the stage was made in the form of a stormy sky, against which was placed a huge photograph of burning candles and a child's hand lighting one of them.

A powerful earthquake hit northern Japan, injuring seven people, according to Reuters. Japanese meteorologists recorded tremors with a force of 5.8 on the Richter scale in Niigata Prefecture at 11.16 local time. Small fluctuations in the earth's crust were also recorded in the Japanese capital. The shocks will not lead to the appearance of either a tsunami or giant waves in the ocean, meteorologists said. Two weeks ago, a strong earthquake in the same Japanese province killed 39 people.

On the night of November 8, an exceptionally strong magnetic storm was recorded. "This is not only the largest geomagnetic disturbance of the year, but also one of the largest storms in the history of observations, that is, since 1932," a spokesman for the IZMIRAN Geophysical Prediction Center told Interfax on Monday. According to scientists, the magnetic storm is currently continuing, and in the next two days the geomagnetic situation will remain highly disturbed.

The question of the extradition of Akhmed Zakayev to Russia will be raised during the forthcoming Russia-EU summit in The Hague. This is not ruled out by Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Chizhov. In an interview with Interfax, he said that the issue of extradition is still a subject of discussion with the UK authorities through various channels.

'Menatep-SPB'. Photo from Newsru.com The Menatep group in the near future can sell its shares of Yukos. This was stated by the chairman of the board of directors of "Yukos" Viktor Gerashchenko, speaking at the opening of the international conference "Expansion of capital - from the national economy to transnational" in Hong Kong. "Menatep as the owner of the" Yukos "can disappear in the near future, that is, this financial group can sell its share in the oil company," he said.

Iraqi militants in El Falludge. Photo by ar On Monday, American troops began a full-scale assault on the Iraqi city of El Falluj, where the forces of the rebels-Sunnis were concentrated. It is reported by Reuters. The assault was preceded by massive bombing and shelling. The operation, which is called the Dawn, participates about 12 thousand troops - 10 thousand American marine infantrymen and 2 thousand Iraqi military.

Sukha Arafat. Photo by ar The delegation of the leadership of the Palestinian autonomy flew from Ramallah to Amman. From the capital of Jordan, they will go to France, where they are going to visit the Palestinian leader Asir Arafat. It is expected that the Palestinians will arrive in Paris on Monday evening. This was reported by French television.

Andrey Illarionov, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, believes that Russian economic policy has been going in the wrong direction for the past two years. "Starting from August 2002, a turning point took place in Russia's economic policy, and the state's economic policy began to negatively influence economic development," Illarionov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.