The Palestinian Security Service has detained 20 extremists today, who for a year and a half took refuge in the headquarters of the head of the Palestinian autonomy of Yasir Arafat. Most of the detainees are members of the group of "Brigade of the Martyrs of Al -Axsa" - the military wing of the Fath movement led by the arafat. Last year, the Israeli troops for several months blocked the headquarters of Arafat, trying to force extremists to leave it.

The number of victims of yesterday's explosion of the military hospital in Mozdok, according to the latest data, reached 39. The exact number of the wounded is still unknown, but there are at least 60 of them. Rescuers continue to disassemble the rubble. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, who arrived in Mozdok, said that 125 people were in the building at the time of the explosion.

In the west of Canada, strong forest fires have not stopped for several days. The authorities of the province of British Columbia declared a state of emergency. Fire covered dozens of square kilometers of forest. More than three thousand people have been evacuated from the disaster areas. Several foci of fires are recorded in the neighboring province of Albert. To combat fire, special aviation is used. An unusually arid summer caused fires in a number of European countries.

In the southern suburbs of Beirut, as a result of the explosion of the bomb in the car, at least two people died, several were injured. According to eyewitnesses, the explosion occurred when the car started. According to the Lebanese special services, the dead were inside the car. Their personalities and motives of the explosion have not yet been established. The wounds received several passers -by.

In France, an activist of the anti -globalist movement of Jose BowE was ahead of schedule from prison. The court replaced him for several months of prison with socially useful work. In June of this year, BOVE was arrested for destroying the fields sown with genetically modified Mais and rice. BOVE became famous after in 1999, together with other anti -globalists, he tried to prevent the construction of the McDonald's restaurant in the city of Millo.

In the suburbs of Beirut, as a result of the explosion of the bomb laid down in his car, a member of the Hzbollah extremist group died. Several passers -by were injured. The southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital are considered a stronghold of Hezbollah, which receives support from Iran. It is included in the USA on the list of terrorist organizations.

The central command of the United States distributed five photographs of Saddam Hussein in Iraq among the coalition servicemen subjected to computer processing. They depict the face of Hussein after possible changes in appearance - for example, younger or aged, with a mustache and a beard or smoothly shaved. According to representatives of the American command, photographs should help in search of the former Iraqi dictator, whose whereabouts are still unknown.

In Moscow, a cache with weapons was discovered in the wholesale market of the Seagull. According to the ITAR-TASS agency, pistols and a home-made explosive device were found in the container, presumably belonging to a criminal group. According to the Interfax agency, the owner of the container is detained.

In Monrovia - the capital of Liberia - today fierce shootings have again occurred between the rebels and the troops faithful to President Charles Taylor. According to at least 4 civilians, including a child, were injured in the city of employees of humanitarian organizations. Representatives of Western Africa countries today met with Charles Taylor. They reminded him of the need to fulfill the promise and leave Liberia immediately after the commissioning of peacekeeping forces.

On Monday, a group of experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency arrives on Monday to convince the Iranian authorities to sign a protocol allowing inspection of any nuclear facility in the country. The United States accuses Iran of the development of nuclear weapons. Tehran claims that his nuclear programs are intended for peaceful purposes.

A demonstration of the opposition was held in Baku with a request to hold the democratic presidential elections and the resignation of President Heydar Aliyev. According to various sources. Up to two thousand people participated in it. Participants in the action demanded that the authorities be eliminated over the Central Election Committee. By increasing its composition at the expense of representatives of the opposition. The presidential elections in Azerbaijan should be held on October 15.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent in the North Caucasus Dmitry Alexandrov, the editor of the RS Ivan Tolstoy and who returned from a business trip to Chechnya Andrei Babitsky participate. Andrey Shary: A military hospital was blown up in Mozdok.

The number of victims of the explosion of the military hospital in Mozdok, according to the latest data, reached 44. The exact number of victims is still unknown, but there are at least 80 of them. About 50 wounded were delivered to various medical institutions in Russia, most of them to the Rostov-on-Don military hospital. Rescuers continue to disassemble the rubble. Search and rescue work is planned to be completed on Sunday by noon.

Italy and Morocco sent fire fighting aircraft to Portugal to combat forest fires. More than two thousand Portuguese firefighters and military personnel are fighting with fires, the number of which has reached fifty. The spread of fire is facilitated by extraordinary heat that exceeds 40 degrees Celsius. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Portugal said that fires led to a genuine natural disaster, which had not been observed for a decade.

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