US troops detained 24 people accused of attacks on Americans on Sunday in Iraq. They were arrested in the so -called "Sunni triangle" to the west and north of Baghdad. The statement of the Central Command of the United States on this occasion says that all the detainees are supporters of Saddam Hussein, and one of them is the leader who was wanted. On the same day, near Baghdad at the highway leading to the airport, a car was blown up on a mine. The local resident located in it was wounded.

At least 45 people died - mostly women and children - as a result of an explosion and a fire in the city of Gilgit in the north of Pakistan. Dozens of people are injured, 13 are missing. According to local authorities, the explosion occurred last night in the room where explosives stored for road work. The fire began, the fire quickly spread to neighboring residential buildings. The cause of the explosion could be a short circuit.

In the South African city of Durnban, a four -day conference dedicated to the issue of AIDS began. Its participants will discuss a document calling for a multiple increase in funds allocated to fight AIDS. The project prepared by the International Working Group provides for three times to increase funding for AIDS prevention by 2005. In the South African Republic, 4 million 700 thousand people are sick with AIDS or infected with immunodeficiency virus.

Mumin Shakirov: Our guest is film director Sergei Solovyov. The questions are asked by journalists Frank Braun, the correspondent of the Israeli magazine Jerusalem Riprap, and Viktor Matizen, the film recreate of the newspaper Russian Courier. Mumin Shakirov is conducting the program. When will your next film with the lyrical name "About Love" will be released? Sergey Soloviev: The film is finished. On October 10, the premiere is appointed. Now technical work is underway, print copies.

The author of the program Andrey Korlyakov Andrey Korlyakov: I had a case, Marina Antonovna, when one former ballerina I asked: did you have a Nansen passport remained? She found him, and, throwing it on the table, she said: take it, it was my shame, I could not leave him anywhere. Marina Denikina-Gray: I was 4 years old when we went to Austria and Hungary. There we lived for a while, dad finished the "Essays on the Russian Troubles", and then I was probably recorded on some passport.

In Peru, the hunger strike in prison, the leaders of the Ultralevo group "Senero Luminoso" ("Shining Path") - Abimael Gusman and Elena Ipragyrre, announced. Both protest against the contents in single chambers, where they were transferred after they accused the prison employees of the seizure of the Ibarragirre diary. Excerpts from the diary were published in local newspapers, creating the impression that prisoners continue to manage the activities of Sendero Luminoso from prison.

The head of the Chechnya administration Akhmad Kadyrov today officially announced his intention to run for the presidency of the republic. Kadyrov noted that he would be an independent candidate. He previously stated that he refuses the pre -election support from the People’s Party and the United Russia party, since he does not want to be related to obligations with a particular political organization.

The head of the British Intelligence Service of the Mi -6 Richard Dirlav will resign in a year, the country's foreign policy department said. It refuted the information that appeared in the press that the upcoming resignation is connected with the scandal around the report, released before the war in Iraq, based on British intelligence data. The official London denies that he exaggerated the threat coming from the Saddam Hussein regime to justify the beginning of hostilities.

Two subjects of Great Britain are suspected of involvement in a series of terrorist attacks in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in May of this year, as a result of which 44 people died and more than 100 were injured. According to the British Foreign Ministry, 37-year-old Parry Jensen and 42-year-old Abellatif Murrone are detained in Morocco. Jensen was brought, in particular, accusations of involvement in the criminal group.

North Korea authorities refuse to negotiate the situation around her nuclear program with US Secretary of State John Bolton. Last week, the American diplomat sharply criticized the DPRK leadership for violating human rights and weapons trafficking. At the same time, the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Pyongyang's position regarding multilateral negotiations on its nuclear program did not change.

This year, 360 thousand refugees returned to Afghanistan. Most profit from Iran and Pakistan, where millions of Afghans are still remaining. Representatives of the UN note that refugees are clearly in no hurry to return - people are scared by the unstable situation in Afghanistan, unemployment and poverty.

More than 8 thousand people are evacuated in the Canadian province of British Colombia, where forest fires continue to rage. In the town of Barrier, north-east of Vancouver, fire destroyed more than 70 residential buildings and a mill. One person is hospitalized with severe burns. The head of the British Colombian government Gordon Campbell introduced a state of emergency in the province. Now in the west of Canada there are more than 300 large foci of fire.

The famous film actress Marie Trentinyan died from the beatings - she was inflicted on several of the strongest blows in the face, - confirmed the French experts who conducted the autopsy. The actress’s family sued her friend, the rock star of Bertrand Kantata, who was together with her at the hotel in the capital of Lithuania, where the tragedy occurred.

The Palestinian Security Service detained 20 extremists, who for a year and a half took refuge in the headquarters of the head of the Palestinian autonomy of Yasir Arafat in Ramallach on the west coast of Jordan. 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. They refuse to transport from Ramallah to Jericho, and threaten to resume attacks on the Israelis.

In the gas sector on Saturday, one Palestinian teenager died and four were injured - due to careless handling of an explosive device. On the same day, an explosion occurred in one of the houses in the city of Khan Unis. Two people were injured. The causes of the explosion are unknown. The Autonomy Security Service turned to the Palestinians not to store explosives in houses.