The Government is preparing to expel dozens of Russian spies operating in Britain as the diplomatic tensions with President Putin escalate. MI5 has helped draw up a list of suspected agents, including at least 34 diplomats in the Russian embassy, who could be targeted in a mass expulsion.

According to sources in the Wilayah of Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, 9 Muharram 1429 late in the evening (17 January 2008), around 10:10 pm local time, a fierce firefight with the use of assault rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers erupted in downtown Nazran.

The war in Afghanistan is only just beginning as NATO occupation forces, far from winning the Taliban, are entering a widening and deepening conflict they may well lose, NGO said on Saturday.