The head of the Provisional Administration of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov criticized the actions of the Russian military in the republic. According to the Interfax agency, at a press conference in Gudermes Kadyrov, he said that the Russian command should have long been abandoned the practice of the general detention of civilians who were not involved in the war. He did not exclude that the population of Chechnya would hold protests.

At the Olympic Games in the Sydney, the Bulgarian Balligan, Isabella Dragnev, won today a gold medal in heavy athletics among women in the weight category up to 48 kilograms. Australian Michael Diamond became a champion in shooting at a trench stand. Canadian athlete Simon Whitfield won the triathlon competitions. The Chinese woman Tao Lu-on became the Olympic champion in shooting a pneumatic pistol.

Four Palestinian adolescents and one Israeli soldier were injured today in the clashes of demonstrators with Israeli divisions in the gas sector. About two hundred students gathered for a demonstration, dedicated to the next anniversary of the death of Palestinian refugees in the camps of Sabra and Shatil during the invasion of Israel in Lebanon. Demonstrators threw stones. In response, Israeli soldiers began to shoot with rubber bullets.

The governments of France, Germany and Malaysia express concern about the fate of 19 hostages, who are in the hands of Muslim separatists on the Philippine Island. Fears are expressed that their life may be under threat - because of the military operation of the Filipino Army against the Islamists that began on Saturday. Among the hostages are 6 foreigners: an American, two Frenchmen and three citizens of Malaysia.

On Saturday, all time departments of the internal affairs were fired in Grozny on Saturday, with the exception of the Leninsky district. According to the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the shelling of the police and police checks has recently become more frequent, and the subboty events are actually everyday practice.

Three people were arrested in Georgia for trying to sell a small batch of Uranus and Plutonium. The representative of the Georgian special services said that the detainees were expected to receive $ 100 thousand for 3 grams of uranium, and 750 thousand dollars for 50 grams of plutonium.

The French authorities announced today about the arrest in the south of the country, 15 people suspected of relations with the Basque terrorist group. According to representatives of the French police, some of the arrested are professional demolitions involved in a series of terrorist attacks organized in Spain. Last Friday, Ignasio Arregreg, one of this leaders, was arrested in France. The next day in the city of Ernani in northern Spain, the police neutralized a powerful explosive device.

The protocol on interaction in the fight against international crime was signed in Moscow on Saturday, the heads of the border departments of Russia and Japan - Konstantin Totsky and the Shego Arai. According to Totsky, the document defines the main directions of cooperation between border guards of both countries, primarily in the field of combating drug trafficking, a smuggling of weapons and illegal immigration.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney, the Australian Michael Diamond received a gold medal, winning the shooting competition at the trench stand. Canadian athlete Simon Whitfield won the triathlon competitions. The Chinese woman Tao Lu-on became the Olympic champion in shooting a pneumatic pistol. The Australian swimmer Yang Torp has set today a new Olympic record in a preliminary swim at a distance of 200 meters in a freestyle style. Its time is 1 minute 46 and 71 hundredth of a second.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney, the Canadian athlete Simon Whitfield won today a gold medal in triathlon competitions. The Chinese woman Tao Luna became the Olympic champion in shooting a pneumatic pistol. The Australian swimmer Yang Torp has set today a new Olympic record in a preliminary swim at a distance of 200 meters in a freestyle style. Its time is 1 minute 46 and 56 hundredths.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney today, in a free -style swim, women at a distance of 400 meters of the Golden Olympic medal won Brooke Bennett from the USA. In heavy athletics competitions, in the weight category up to 62 kilograms, the Olympic champion became the barbar from Croatia Nikolai Pisalov. On the Olympic cycling track, Robert Bartko from Germany won the individual pursuit race.

Georgia has serious claims to Russia in the implementation of bilateral agreements on military-political issues and Istanbul agreements on the withdrawal of Russian military bases from the Georgian terrorism. This was stated today at a press conference in Tbilisi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Irakli Menarishvili. According to the ITAR-TASS agency, the minister did not specify what kind of claims we are talking about.

The Yugoslav authorities continue to pursue the opposition - on the eve of the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for September 24. On Saturday, at least 5 activists of the Opposition Student Movement "rebuff" were arrested. A day earlier, more than 20 opponents of the Slobodan Milosevich regime were detained in Serbia.

In Kyrgyzstan, the next attack of the armed Islamic extremists was committed in the position of government troops. On Sunday night, the Islamist detachment was attacked by a checkpoint in the area of the Turo Pass in the Batken region of the republic. The battle lasted several hours. According to the Kyrgyz side, government troops did not suffer losses. Today, Kyrgyz military aircraft inflicts missile and bombing attacks on the Turo Pass.

The International Anti -Doping Agency has announced today about the disqualification of one of the Iranian boxers who is forced to leave the Olympic Games in Sydney. According to the international federation of amateur boxing, his name is Anushirvan Nuryan. Earlier it became known that the Romania in heavy athletics was also leaving from Sydney - due to the fact that the three Romanian weightlifters did not pass a doping test.