Two American soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been charged with mistreating prisoners suspected of terrorist activities, AP reports. As Jerry O'Hara, a spokesman for the US command in Afghanistan, said, the defendants beat the prisoners in the chest, stomach, arms and legs. In addition to accusations of ill-treatment of Afghans, the soldiers were accused of violating regulations and assaulting a person. In that case, the military personnel are found guilty and face disciplinary sanctions.

An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale occurred on Sunday night off the eastern coast of Kamchatka, RIA Novosti reports . According to the Kamchatka experimental-methodological seismological party, the earthquake was recorded at 2:44 local time in the Kronotsky Bay, 100 kilometers north of the Shipunsky Peninsula. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 150 kilometers away from the epicenter of the seismic event, no significant tremors were felt.

On the night of October 29-30, Russia switched to winter time. At three o'clock in the morning Moscow time, the hands of all clocks were moved back an hour. Thus, the country returned to normal “natural” time after seven months of living on the summer clock. More than 110 countries around the world use the daylight saving time system. The hour hand was first adjusted in Great Britain in 1908, after which many countries followed suit.

Hurricane Beta reached the coast of Nicaragua on Sunday afternoon, lashing the Central American country with heavy rains and winds reaching 120 kilometers per hour, Reuters reports. Having reached the ground, Beta lost some of its power, and is now assessed by experts as a category 1 hurricane. However, even in a weakened state, Beta is capable of causing a lot of trouble to local residents.

When a Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, eight people were injured: three crew members and five passengers, RIA Novosti reports, citing the operational duty officer of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Earlier, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Transport reported that there were only five people on board. The accident occurred on Saturday at approximately 10:10 local time.

21 people died in the US state of Florida as a result of Hurricane Wilma. On Saturday, rescue officials confirmed the deaths of seven more people, AP reported. Thus, the total number of victims of the natural disaster in the United States, Mexico, Haiti and Jamaica was 38 people. It is noted that the majority died not from the direct impact of the hurricane, but from the consequences of the disaster. Hurricane Wilma hit Florida on October 24th.

The number of American Marines stationed at a military base on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be reduced by seven thousand people, BBC News reports. This decision was made following negotiations between the heads of the military and foreign affairs departments of the United States and Japan, held on Saturday in Washington.

An unknown Kashmiri group, Inqilabi, claimed responsibility for a series of terrorist attacks in Delhi. Its representative made the statement by calling a local news agency in Srinagar, Reuters reported. The veracity of the statement has not yet been established. It is possible that Inkilabi is the military wing of a larger organization. Security services believe that only the largest extremist groups based in Pakistan have the necessary resources to organize terrorist attacks.

Two people were killed and one was seriously injured as a result of a car falling into the Moscow River, Interfax reports . According to the capital's traffic police, at about 7:20 on Paveletskaya embankment, the driver of a car lost control on the road, as a result of which the car broke through the fence and fell into the water. There were three people in the car. Rescuers who arrived at the scene managed to remove one of the car's passengers from the water.

The Islamic extremist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, based in Pakistan, is suspected of organizing and carrying out three terrorist attacks that occurred on Saturday evening in New Delhi, reports the Indian agency PTI. Let us recall that three explosions were carried out almost simultaneously in different parts of the Indian capital - in large markets and near the main railway station.

Law enforcement agencies of Dagestan detained a militant with a “suicide belt,” Interfax reports . On Sunday, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan said that the day before, in the vicinity of Khasavyurt, a car driven by a resident of this city, Said Hussein Idrisov, was stopped. During a personal search of the driver, a homemade explosive device was found on his belt, consisting of 4 two-hundred-gram TNT bombs, batteries and two electric detonators.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi repeatedly tried to convince US President George W. Bush not to invade Iraq. One of Bush's main allies in the military campaign in Iraq stated this in an interview with La7 television. “I was never convinced that war was the best way to bring democracy to Iraq. I tried several times to convince Bush not to attack Iraq and tried to find another solution to the problem, even involving the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in this matter.

Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin told a group of Russian journalists in Chisinau that in 2003, at the last moment, he discovered in the then proposed Russian plan for resolving the Transnistrian conflict a provision on the creation of a Russian military base in Transnistria for a period of 20 years, Interfax reports . According to Voronin, in October 2003, on the evening before the signing of this document, he found “one new page” in the plan.

A suicide bomber detonated a truck carrying dates in a market near the Iraqi city of Baqubah. The explosion occurred when a crowd of shoppers gathered around the car, Reuters reports. According to doctors, 30 people were killed and another 42 were injured as a result of the terrorist attack. Police said the explosion heavily damaged houses and shops near the site of the attack. On October 29, three American soldiers were killed in Iraq.

An accident occurred in the Omsk region involving a Gazelle passenger minibus. As a result, 12 people were injured, RIA Novosti reports . All of them were hospitalized. The accident occurred on Saturday near the village of Chernoluchye, but regional law enforcement agencies reported it on Sunday. According to preliminary data, while overtaking, the minibus collided with an IZH car traveling in the same direction. At the same time, the Gazelle jumped into a ditch and overturned.