In Baku today, the Stronniks of the Opposite Electoral Bloc "Our Azerbaijan" hold a rally. Yesterday, an agreement was signed on cooperation between the Musavat parties (leader Isa Gambar) and the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan (leader Rasul Guliev, living in exile in the United States). Isa Gambar was nominated by a single candidate for the presidential election from the bloc. In the case of his victory, Guliev will become the Prime Minister.

In a suburb of Kabul, an American soldier was wounded in a shootout. According to the military, one of the three attackers was captured. In Afghanistan, the attacks of the Taliban and militants of Al-Qaeda on the anti-terrorist coalition, Afghan government forces and employees of humanitarian organizations have recently become more frequent. The Afghan Islamic Agency, based in Pakistan, reports that more than 40 Taliban fled from prison on Friday in Kandahar.

China expresses hope for continuing multilateral negotiations on the problem of North Korean nuclear developments. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Lee Zhaosin in yesterday's telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Colin Powell. The first round of negotiations in which representatives of the six countries participated - both Korens, the USA, China, Russia and Japan - was held in Beijing at the end of August and did not bring specific results.

Japan will provide financial assistance in the restoration of Iraq, ”said Sinzo Abe, General Secretary of the ruling liberal -democratic party. The amount that Tokyo plans to provide will be named in November, at the international conference of donor countries in Madrid. According to the Japanese media, this assistance can be from one and a half to two billion dollars next year and increase to five billion in the next four years. Shinzo Abe also said.

Elena Rykovtseva: Our guest is the leader of the National Bolshevik Party, writer Eduard Limonov. The questions are asked by journalists - Fleming Rosa, the Datniy Posten Datnaya newspaper, and Yuri Vasiliev, editor of the Moscow News newspaper Politics Department. Eduard Veniaminovich, I would like to hear your commentary on the opinion published in the Ukrainian newspaper Mirror of the Week. So, I quote: "Reading his last novels, you can understand that Limonov is really afraid.

In the south of Afghanistan in the province of Zabul, a large taliban detachment attacked a police station. Three police officers were killed, three more were injured. According to some reports, the Taliban captured hostages. In the suburbs of Kabul, an American soldier is wounded in a shootout today. One of the three attackers was captured. Since August, more than three hundred people have been killed in Afghanistan. Among them are Afghan.

Argentina Foreign Minister Raphael Bels said that his country would most likely give out France of the former naval officer accused of killing two French nuns. He was arrested by the Argentine authorities in September this year. In 1990, the French court sentenced him in absentia to life imprisonment. The final decision on extradition will be made by the President of Argentina Nestor Kirschner.

The Laureate of the 2003 Nobel Prize of the World of 2003 Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi called for political, social and economic reforms in the country. In an interview with the French newspaper Mond, she expressed the hope that the awarded to her will inspire human rights activists in Iran. Ebadi announced the need to abandon such punishment, as stones abandoned and amputation of the limbs. According to her, the Iranians are deeply disappointed with the Islamic revolution.

October 12 is the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the Indonesian island of Bali, when over two hundred people, mostly foreign tourists were killed as a result of two explosions at a nightclub. At Bali is the Australian Prime Minister John Hauard. Among the victims of the attacks on October 12 are 88 Australians. For the first time, Australia suffered such sacrifices as a result of a terrorist attack.

The deadline for the payment of compensation to the families of the victims of the explosion of the French airliner in 1989 in Niger - expired on Saturday. So far, the final agreement has not been reached. Libya invited a delegation of relatives of the victims to continue negotiations in Tripoli on Monday.

In Moscow, a solemn mass on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the pontificate of the Pope John Pavel the Second was held in the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception today. The current head of the Roman Catholic Church (in the world - Karol Voithil) was elected to the throne of St. Peter on October 16, 1978. The Pole by origin, he became the first Nevalian dad for more than 400 years.

The Afghan authorities closed the state daily newspaper, which published a series of articles criticizing the government. According to the editor -in -chief of the publication, yesterday the authorities ordered immediately to stop the printing of the next issue of the newspaper Armon Mali (the aspirations of the people). The government spokesman said that the decision is caused by economic reasons. In the suburbs of Kabul, an American soldier is wounded in a shootout today.

At least 50 people drowned and about 50 more were saved in the north of Nigeria, when river steam crashed into the concrete support of the bridge. According to local authorities, a ferry was from one hundred to 150 people. The search for the dead continues.

On the western outskirts of Grozny, an armed Chechen is killed today in a shootout with police officers today. The other members of the Mujahideen detachment, in the clash with whom the police entered, managed to hide. In the Staropromyslovsky district of the Chechen capital, the armored troops of the Russian troops were fired. Two military personnel are easily injured. In the Grozny district, a police patrol was fired last night. One policeman is wounded.

In the center of the Iraqi capital, at the Baghdad hotel, a strong explosion occurred today. Conflicting messages about the victims are received. According to a number of Western agencies and television companies, from two to 10 people were killed, many people were injured. It is assumed that one or more cars stuffed with explosives exploded. In the Baghdad hotel, American officers and some members of the ruling Iraq Council live. US military and local police cordoned off the explosion area.