The White House administration was included in the list of international terrorists of the former Prime Minister of Afghanistan, the leader of the Islamic Party of Afghanistan Gulbeddin Hekmatiara. The Bush administration has information that Hekmatiar supported and participated in terrorist attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda and the Taliban movement. This is stated in the statement of the press service of the State Department of the United States, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Saudi Arabia, an employee of the British air corporation BAE Systems was killed. The murder occurred on Thursday in the capital of the country of Riyadh. According to the British media, the subject of Great Britain was attacked in a car near the traffic light. The killer is a 30 -year -old native of Yemen Saud Bin Ali Bin Nasser is a citizen of Saudi Arabia. Nothing is known about the motives of the crime.

In 2002, 94 tons of narcotic substances were seized from illegal turnover in Russia. This was announced on Thursday at a briefing in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation by the deputy head of the investigative part of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Colonel of Justice, Yuri Alekseev. At the same time, 842 kg of heroin, 1 ton of 215 kg of hash, 58 kg of cocaine and 14 tons of poppy seeds were among the seized.

During the ongoing searches for the wreckage of the Columbia shuttle, which was disaster on February 1, the nasal chassis of the space shuttle was found in the USA. The find was made in the east of Texas in the forests near the Toledo Bend reservoir, located along the border with Louisiana. According to American television channels, the chassis was found on Tuesday by local residents who notified the divers who examined the bottom of the lake about this.

Two Russian soldiers who escaped from their unit located on the territory of Transnistria were detained on Wednesday in the Odessa region in Ukraine. According to Rosbalt , the press service of the border troops of Ukraine said that the detention was carried out on the Ukrainian-Moldavian border. According to official information, the deserters escaped 'due to the hazardous relationships'. There were no weapons with them.

The Fokker-27 transport aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force with 17 people on board on Thursday crashed in the north-west of the country, ITAR-TASS reports. The representative of the command said that on board the aircraft was the commander of the Pakistani Air Force Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir. The disaster occurred near the city of Kohat immediately after the aircraft took off from the military air base. The causes of the disaster have not yet been reported.

Matt Damon and Hit Ledger, according to well -informed sources, are discussing the possibility of participating in the film Terry Gilliam, which will be dedicated to the famous brothers Grimm. Jonathan Price and Robin Williams are expected to play in a film whose shooting begins in Prague in June of this year, negative characters.

Linguistic expertise of the novel by the writer-Modernist Bayan Shiryanov (Kirill Vorobyov) "Mediciper pilot", which was conducted by the experts of the Institute of the Russian Language named after M. Gorky and Philology Faculty of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosova, established the lack of pornography in this work.

Over the past two years, the special services of Azerbaijan arrested 38 citizens of their country who studied and fought in the Pankisian Gorge in Georgia. Such data were reported by the Minister of National Security of Azerbaijan Namik Abbasov at a meeting with the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Vladimir Rushailo.

The United States intends to pay Turkey $ 26 billion as a compensation for its economic losses in case of war in Iraq. Representatives of the foreign policy departments of the two countries agreed on this in the Ancar of negotiations. Washington’s compensation consists from the repayment of Ankara of her 6-billion military debt and the provision of loans in the amount of 20 billion.

Several American public organizations opposing the war with Iraq will be held for the first time on February 26 in the United States Electronic Virtual Marsh to Washington.

In Poland, as a result of a collision of a passenger bus and autocrane, two people were killed and five were injured. At the Kaliningrad-Elblong highway, on Thursday, at about 10:00 Moscow time (at 8 in the morning), in the area of ​​the village of Mileevo, a Flight passenger bus of the Man Kaliningrad company Kenigavto AA704, following the Kaliningrad-Elblong route, with Autocrane, was collided. There were 15 passengers on the bus, reports Lenta-Kaliningrad .

The US military has transferred the deadlines for the outbreak of war in mid -March. This is due to the diplomatic problems and complications that arose when moving military units to the future hostilities area, the Washington Times writes today. Most of the combat units of the fleet, the Air Force and Marines are already in the Persian Gulf and are ready to start the attack, the publication notes.

Japanese scientists confirmed that an unknown body found in Hiroshima at the beginning of the month is a meteorite. A fragment weighing about 400 grams fell to the roof of a company engaged in wholesale supplies of medical products. The length of the meteorite is 10 cm, and the width is 6 cm, the Daily News reports. According to experts of the National Museum of Science, the main components of the meteorite are silicon and oxygen.

On Thursday, in the Moscow City Court, the process begins in the case of an international gang of vehicles. On an account of criminals - dozens of daring robbery attacks on owners of expensive SUVs. On the bench of the defendants - 15 people. Among them are former law enforcement officers and military. And the leader of the gang was the son of an employee of the administration of the President of Belarus.