The Afghan authorities announced today about the arrest of four members of the Taliban movement leadership. Among the detainees are the former member of the Taliban government, Mavlavi Shahidhel, suspected of involvement in attacks on Afghan troops. The arrests were held on the night of Tuesday during the raid south of the city of Gaznia, where the surviving Taliban and the formation of the field commander Gulbeddin Hekmatiyar operate.

Andrei Sharogradsky: The man of the day of Radio Liberty on March 25 is one of the founders of the environmental direction - ecological ethics, Holmes Rolston the Third, who became the laureate of the prestigious American Prize named after John Templeton. Holms Rolston was born in 1932 in the American state of Virginia.

It will become even more difficult to fight in Iraq when the troops of the Allies are approaching Baghdad, ”warned US Minister of Defense Donald Ramsfeld today. Today, in southern transfer to Baghdad, American-British aviation and artillery struck the positions of the Iraqi Republican Guard. With the onset of the evening, the city itself was bombarded again.

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"All people are born free and equal in their dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and should act in relation to each other in the spirit of the brotherhood." Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this issue: The preliminary results of the referendum on the Chechen constitution are impressive: more than 90 percent of those who came to the voting sites answered “yes” to questions about the new basic law of Chechnya and the elections of its new leadership.

American and British troops are moving towards Baghdad. The advanced American units are located on the outskirts of the city of Karbel, 80 kilometers from the Iraqi capital. Aviation of priests with the onset of darkness inflicts continuous blows to Baghdad. In the south of Iraq, bombing was subjected to the outskirts of Basra, where Iraqi troops continue to provide fierce resistance.

The Military Court in Israel sentenced three militants to the Radical Palestinian group "Hamas" to the lifelong conclusion - for the murder of the Israelis. One of the defendants - Mahmud Maclis - was sentenced immediately to the 9th time of life imprisonment for participating in the lynching of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallach in October 2000.

In the United States, another - the third in a row - the accused of cooperation with the Al -Qaeda terrorist organization found himself guilty. The 26-year-old native of Yemen Yahya Goba, who appeared before the court of Buffalo, who appeared before the court of Buffalo, admitted that he helped to collect information for al-Qaeda.

At least 5 Palestinians were killed today on the western bank of the Jordan during the raids of the Israeli troops. Three killed - militants of the Hamas group, who showed fierce resistance when trying to detain them. Today, the Military Court in Israel sentenced the three Hamas militants to the life imprisonment for the murders of the Israelis.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia today warned the Minister of Culture Mikhail Shvydky about responsibility - for trying to return to Germany the so -called “Baldinsky collection”. According to the representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Shvydkom was awarded “official warning”. The Prosecutor General’s Office believes that there are no legal grounds for returning the collection.

The United States and Türkiye today are conducting a new round of negotiations on the possibility of entering the Turkish troops into the northern regions of Iraq. According to the American representative of Zalma Khalilzod, yesterday's negotiations in Ankara ended to no avail. The United States and the European Union urge Turkey not to send troops to the north of Iraq, controlled by the Kurds, in order to avoid additional destabilization of the situation.

American-British aviation continues to strike at objects in Baghdad. Western journalists report powerful explosions in the vicinity of the Iraqi capital. The allied forces located 80 kilometers from Baghdad are fierce battles with the divisions of the Republican Guard. In the south of the country, the motorized units of the coalition forced the Efrat River under the city of En-Nasiria in order to conduct an attack on the capital from another direction.

Employees of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford have developed a gentle method of drug treatment for cancer. Usually, cancer patients are prescribed maximum doses of antitumor drugs, which themselves cause dangerous complications. It turned out that the doses of these drugs can be significantly reduced if they are used along with biologically active substances that enhance the performance of the immune system.

In London, on Monday, the famous Russian entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky and one of the leaders of the Russian Logovaz company Julius Dubov were arrested. Both were released on a monetary bail. According to Western news agencies, the reason for the arrest was the request of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia, which accuses Berezovsky and Dubov of embezzlement of more than two thousand vehicles from the Volga automobile plant in 1994 - 1995.

In the United States, employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigations questioned more than 5 thousand immigrants from Iraq. About 30 people are arrested. According to the representative of the FBI, the purpose of interrogations is to check the legality of the Iraqi stay in the United States and identify their possible ties with terrorists and spies.