The Afghan military commander Abdossabor said that the fighters of the group of the leader of ethnic Uzbeks Abdul Rashid Dustum killed four supporters of the Tajik military leader of Att Mohammad in the northern province of Balkh. Abdossabor is the deputy of the Mohammad. The collision occurred on February 19. Over the past year, as a result of the battles between the groups of Mohammad and Dustum, dozens of people died.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, on the slope of Mount Cheget, the search for three of the seven, ten days missing, snowboarders from Moscow resumed. Previously, four athletes were found and identified and identified and identified. 160 people participate in the search operation, including mountain rescuers from Germany.

In the International Tribunal in The Hague, British judge Richard May, presiding on the trial of the former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich, intends to resign on health reasons on March 31. Representatives of the tribunal reported that on Wednesday, as it was planned, the next meeting of the court in the Milosevich case would be held.

Representatives of the Hungarian minority in Romania urge the nationalist poet Albert Vassa, sentenced in 1946 in absentia to the death penalty on charges of war crimes during the Second World War. The Court of Communist Romania found the Vasses guilty of the murder of civilians in 1940, when Transylvania was occupied by Hungary. After the war, the VAS fled to Germany, then emigrated to the United States. He died in 1998 at the age of 90 a year.

According to preliminary data, Iranian conservatives can count on most of the 290 seats in parliament, the elections in which were held on Friday. A little more than 50 percent of voters participated in the vote. In Tehran, the turnout was - below 30 percent. Supporters of the reform called for the Boycot of the elections after the conservative Council of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution forbade the run to run almost two and a half thousand candidates-reformists.

In Iran, both religious conservatives and reformists declare their success in the parliamentary elections past on Friday. According to preliminary data, conservatives can still count on 110 out of 290 seats in parliament. The reformists say that their call to boycott the vote led to a low voter turnout, which was the defeat of the conservatives. According to official figures, 43 percent of Iranian citizens who have the right to vote participated in the elections.

In the north of Uganda, about two hundred people died when the rebels attacked the refugee camp in Lyra's province. According to eyewitnesses, the rebels set fire to a camp, in which there were about 4 thousand people, and shot those who tried to escape. The rebels of the group "Army of the Lord's Resistance" for 18 years have been conducting an armed struggle with the Government of Uganda. They do not have a clear program.

In Jerusalem this morning there was an explosion in a passenger bus. At least seven people died, more than 50 were injured. According to the police, the explosive device was driven by a suicide bomber. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said that today's attack confirms the need to build barriers on the western coast of Jordan. Tomorrow in the International Court in The Hague, a hearing of the issue of the legality of Israel of the protective wall begins.

UN General Secretary CoFi Annan said that on Monday, a report on the political future of Iraq. The document was prepared by a group of UN experts after a trip to Iraq by a delegation, headed by the representative of Annan, Lahdar Brahimi. In the north of Iraq in the city of Mosul, two local residents were killed on Sunday. In the city of Karbela in the south of the country, acts of sabotage on the oil pipeline are noted.

In Haiti, the rebels captured the second largest city in the country of Kap-Avyatien. It is reported about shootings and robberies throughout the city. About 60 people died on Haiti since the beginning of the anti-government rebellion on February 5, when the rebels captured the city of Gonaiv, demanding the resignation of President Jean-Bertran Aristida.

In Brussels on Sunday, about three hundred Muslims took part in a protest demonstration against the proposal of some politicians - following the example of France - to ban religious attributes to be prohibited in state educational institutions. The manifestation was organized by the European Arab League, which defends the rights of 350-and-IN Muslims of Belgium.

In Dagestan, in the city of Khasavyurt, on Sunday night, an attempt was made on the life of the head of the district department of the interior of Nurudin Adzhiev. According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs, as a result of the shelling of an official car, a driver was seriously wounded. Adzhiev himself was not injured.

In Pakistan, government troops are ready to begin a major special operation in the area of the border with Afghanistan - if the elders of local tribes refuse to give out the activists of Al -Qaeda hiding there. The military reported that on Sunday, the deadline for the issuance of militants, as well as those local residents who cover them, expire.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, met with the messenger of Vatican Cardinal Walter Casper. The head of the Papal Council for the assistance of Christian unity, Casper arrived in Moscow to discuss the issue of improving relations between the Catholic and Orthodox Church. During the meeting, Alexy the Second expressed concern about the spread of Catholicism in the east of Ukraine, in Russia and Kazakhstan.

Iran claims that he informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about the purchase of nuclear components in the black market. Such a statement was made by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Iran Hamid Reza Azefi. Earlier it was reported that the former head of the Pakistani nuclear program Abdul Kadir Khan in the mid-90s sold Tehran elements of nuclear centrifuge.