In Madrid, five members of the terrorist organization of Basque-Saratratists were arrested. According to the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Spain, the police discovered three conspiratorial apartments that served as a refuge for terrorists. The report said that two suspects, having discovered surveillance, tried to hide in the Cuban embassy in Madrid, but were issued to the authorities.

Indonesia police put on the wanted list the son of the former dictator Suharto - Tommy. The Supreme Court of Indonesia sentenced him to one and a half years in prison for large fraud. The son of the former dictator refused to surrender to the authorities and disappeared “Tommy” - the first of the Suharto clan, who was subjected to court persecution after the fall of the dictatorship.

Surgeons in Manchester announced that the operation to separate the three -month Siamese twins - completed. Of the two girls, she survived one, but - is in critical condition. The operation lasted 20 hours. Doctors - despite the objections of Catholic parents - achieved permission to surgery in the British Court of Appeal. Without surgical intervention on death, both girls were doomed.

The President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmonov begins today a visit to Iran. This was announced on Monday by President of Iran Mohammad Hatam. Information about the purpose of the visit was not received. In October, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Harrazi visited Dushanbe. At the Center for negotiations there was an armed conflict in Afghanistan.

Egon Krenz, the last leader of communist eastern Germany, was temporarily released from Berlin prison today. Krenza is given permission to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. He goes to Strasbourg, where tomorrow the court will begin a hearing in his case. In 1997, Krenz was sentenced to six and a half years in prison. The German court found that Krenz shares responsibility for the order given by the border guards of the GDR - to shoot at people who tried to escape to West Germany.

German Foreign Minister Yoshka Fisher starts a visit to Yugoslavia today, where he will hold negotiations with President Voislav Koshtunitsa. According to the German Foreign Ministry, the main purpose of the visit is to demonstrate the support of democratic changes in Yugoslavia. Yesterday, the organization on security and cooperation in Europe stated that Yugoslavia could restore membership in the OSCE at the end of November.

The election of the President of the United States - began. According to the latest surveys, the gap between the two leading candidates - Democrat Albert Mountain and Republican George Bush - practically no. 48 percent of Americans are ready to cast votes for Bush, 46 for the mountain; At the same time, the statistical error is three percent.

Last summer, a peculiar sensation occurred in the cultural life of the United States. In the list of bestseller, New York Times, the author of the author, until then familiar only to specialists and readers of elite magazines, lasted ten weeks. Its name is "from dawn to decadence: 500 years of the cultural life of the West", and the name of the author is Jacques Barzen.

Not far from the coast of Southern Italy, the Ukrainian ship Mikhail Kolesnikov was discovered, transporting illegal emigrants from Asia. The Italian border guards towed a ship that drifted because of the missile defaults to the port of Otranto. On board the ship are about a thousand people, including women and children.

In the prison of the Serbian city of niches, the rebellion of prisoners began, which require a reduction in the sentences of punishment and change of prison administration. The rebels burned several cameras and got out onto the roof of the prison building. The territory of the prison is cordoned off by police. The rebellion began with a hunger strike, which prisoners declared in solidarity with Serges Prisoners in the city of Sremsk-Minovitsa.

For the first time in recent years, all left -wing parties, despite the existing contradictions, decided to unite for today's protest. Since this year, by decision of most deputies of the Verkhovna Rada on November 7, Ukraine has not been a festive day. However, rallies and demonstrations took place in all major cities. About three thousand left supporters at a rally in Kyiv required a decrease in housing, food prices, as well as solving the problem of unemployment.

In the United States, presidential elections are held today. On the eve of the leading candidates for the presidency - Republican George Bush and Democrat Albert Gore - visited six states - Florida, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin and Tennessi - voting in which the outcome of the presidential election can be decided. Today in the morning, the mountains take part in the last election event in Florida, and then go home - to Tenness, to expect the outcome of the vote.

On the Norwegian Ragalia ship, a meeting is held on the possible termination of the operation at the site of the death of the Russian submarine Kursk. According to the head of the press service of the Northern Fleet Vladimir Navrotsky, all the work in the fourth compartment of the boat was discontinued due to the storm. According to Navrotsky, the expediency of the transition of divers to the fifth compartment is called into question. Nearby-in the 6th compartment-there is an atomic reactor.

All the work of divers in the fourth compartment of the Kursk submarine is stopped. The window made in the case of the submarine is brewed. The leaders of the operation decided that due to the storm that had begun, the danger of divers increased sharply. The excitement of the sea reaches five points. Wind speed - 18 meters per second. At a meeting of experts on board the Norwegian ship-platform "regalia", the issue of the advisability of continuing work on a sunken submarine is being discussed.

The Government of the Palestinian autonomy stated on Monday that the world in the Middle East is possible only on condition that Israel would withdraw troops from the Palestinian territories. Members of the Palestinian cabinet also said that they intend to turn to the UN Security Council with a request to place two thousand international peacekeepers on the western coast of Jordan and in the Gaza Strip. This issue will be considered at a closed meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday.