Wilayah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia). Attackers riddled with bullets a minivan with eight employees of the so called FAPSI (federal agency of government communications and information) in downtown Nazran around 06:30 PM, seriously wounding four, among them a colonel, a major and a captain. One of the wounded later died.

Editorial staff of “Jamaat Shariat” has received the text of the official statement by Amir ‘Abdul-Majid, released by the press service of the Amir of the Dagestan Front of the Armed Forces of the Emirate of Caucasus.

According to Kavkaz-Center’s source, seven Mujahideen from the “Sayfullah” unit, based in Temir-Khan-Shura (previously known as Buynaksk), were martyred during the recent months in the territory of Wilayah Dagestan:

January 2008, St. Petersburg. A group of neo-nazis beat a teenager belonging to the so called “emo sub-culture”, breaking his arm and causing brain concussion

GAZA – Hamas offered on Saturday to restore the Gaza Strip’s ruptured border with Egypt through direct diplomacy with Cairo, challenging a plan by rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to assume control.

NAZRAN, Russia – Russian riot police fired warning shots into the air and beat demonstrators who tried to rally on Saturday against alleged vote-rigging in the Muslim region of Ingushetia, a witness said.

JERUSALEM – Israeli police shot a Palestinian who had stabbed an Israeli border policeman near Jerusalem on Saturday, Israeli police and ambulance workers said.

BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces have begun a “decisive” final offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq to push the Sunni Islamist militants out of their last major stronghold in the north, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday.

BEIRUT – A car bomb killed a police intelligence officer involved in the investigation of assassinations in Lebanon, in an attack in a Christian suburb of Beirut on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s permanent envoy to the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization condemned Israel’s crimes in Gaza, and urged the UN body to take urgent measures to rescue lives of innocent Palestinian citizens, specially teenage patients under treatment in Gaza hospitals.