The remnants of the overthrown Afghan Taliban movement are increasing their influence on the situation in Afghanistan and have actually seized power in some areas. This is stated in the report of the UN Deputy Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno, which he read at the UN Security Council, reports BBC News. According to him, the Taliban control the local administration, in particular, in some areas of the provinces of Paktika and Kandahar.

The miners in the flooded Zapadnaya-Kapitalnaya mine let rescuers know that they were alive, RIA Novosti reports . The press secretary of the governor of the Rostov region, Kirill Zhitenev, spoke about this. Of the 46 people trapped underground, 33 people contacted rescuers. The first cage, which can accommodate no more than three people, is currently being prepared for descent.

On Saturday, around noon, the first three of 46 miners trapped there were lifted from the Zapadnaya-Kapitalnaya mine in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the scene. According to him, one of the miners left the mine on his own. The two miners were taken away in an ambulance. Meanwhile, ITAR-TASS reports that four people were brought to the surface, and all of them were sent to the hospital.

In the south of the American state of California near the city of Los Angeles, severe forest fires have continued for about two days. According to CNN, more than 5 thousand hectares of land have already been engulfed in fire. The spread of fire is facilitated by strong dry winds. The fire is already approaching the suburbs of Los Angeles. People are being evacuated from settlements caught in the fire zone: by mid-day on Saturday, about 2 thousand people had left their places of residence.

All 33 found miners who were blocked in the Zapadnaya-Kapitalnaya mine in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, were raised to the surface by Saturday evening, RIA Novosti reports . These 33 people were contacted on Saturday around 6:30. They reported that they were near the cage trunk. The first three miners were brought to the surface around 12:30 p.m. The rescued miners were taken to the hospital; according to doctors, there is no danger to their lives.

Kenyan police on Friday released the results of an investigation indicating plans by the international terrorist organization Al-Qaeda to destroy the US Embassy in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi in June this year. As the Associated Press notes, on June 20, the embassy unexpectedly closed for 4 days, and from June 20 to July 8, all flights between Kenya and Somalia were canceled.

On Saturday morning, a car containing 30 gas cylinders exploded in the Minsk region of Belarus. One person was killed and another was injured. As RIA Novosti was told by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus, a GAZ-53 parked in the garage exploded. The deceased man was most likely the owner of the garage. According to the operational duty officer of the ministry, two nearby cars were destroyed by the explosion, and 32 houses of the Blue Torch horticultural plot were also damaged.

From the Zapadnaya-Kapitalnaya mine in the Rostov region, as of 17:30 Moscow time on Saturday, 23 out of 46 blocked miners were raised. this to RIA Novosti . The operational duty officer of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported According to the website of the Ekho Moskvy radio station , all rescued miners are taken to the first city hospital of Novoshakhtinsk. Vice-Governor of the Rostov Region Alexander Bedrik noted that their condition does not cause alarm.

In Moscow, a robbery was committed at a slot machine hall. As reported to RIA Novosti by the information and public relations department of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate, three armed young men broke into the Jackpot hall, located in the Severnoye Butovo district, on Saturday night.

On Saturday night, alcohol warehouses caught fire on Krasnoprudnaya Street in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports . The signal about a fire at 3/5 Krasnoprudnaya Street was received at the “01” control panel at 00:40, and the fire was extinguished at about 2:00. One-story buildings covering an area of ​​about 300 square meters were completely destroyed by fire. Fifteen fire crews worked at the scene.

CSKA Moscow became the Russian football champion for the first time in its history. One round before the finish of the championship, the army team became unattainable for their opponents. The championship match for Valery Gazzaev's team was the match with Rotor, in which CSKA won with a score of 3:0. The silver medalist of the championship was Zenit St. Petersburg, which tied with Lokomotiv 0:0.

On Friday evening in Chechnya, as a result of the explosion of an army truck, one serviceman was killed and several were shell-shocked, the NewsRu.Com website reports , citing the ITAR-TASS agency . The incident occurred near the Chechen village of Valerik. A Ural vehicle hit a landmine planted on the outskirts of a village 300 meters from a federal checkpoint. Local residents provided assistance to the injured servicemen and took them to the hospital.

The head of the Yukos oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was detained early Saturday morning in Novosibirsk, was taken on a special flight to Moscow. As representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office told RIA Novosti , his interrogation will take place in the near future. “Currently, measures are being taken to call his lawyers in order to conduct an interrogation. No investigative actions are being carried out with Khodorkovsky without lawyers,” the agency’s interlocutor emphasized.

On Saturday, at a railway crossing in the city of Pestovo, Novgorod Region, a diesel locomotive crashed into a UAZ-3303 car, RIA Novosti reports . As a result of the accident, two passengers in the car were injured. According to employees of the Novgorod traffic police department, the collision occurred at approximately 12:43 Moscow time. The UAZ-3303 car drove onto the railway track, despite the fact that the crossing located within the city was equipped with light and sound alarms.

On the night of October 26, Russia will switch to winter time. As ITAR-TASS was told by Deputy Head of the Metrology Department of the State Standard of the Russian Federation Albert Demichev, at 3 a.m. local time on October 26, clock hands throughout the country will be moved back an hour. He recalled that the clocks were first changed in Great Britain in 1908, then many countries around the world followed the example of the British.