Main news of September 11

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*The United States will always remain a tolerant country and will never be at war with Islam, the U. S. president said at a memorial service at the Pentagon on the ninth anniversary of September 11 attacks

* The ninth anniversary since the September 11 attacks is overshadowed by a nationwide debate over plans for a mosque nearby and a Florida pastor's threat to burn copies of the Koran

* Jaroslaw Kaczynski called on the country's president, prime minister and other top officials to resign over poor investigation into the plane crash in which his twin brother died

* North Korea has proposed Red Cross talks with the South on the reunion of families separated since the Korean War in the 1950s, the North's KCNA news agency said

*The participation of Transdnestr in the ordinary consultations on the Moldovan-Transdnestrian conflict settlement in the 5+2 format is still undecided, Transdnestrian leader Igor Smirnov said

RUSSIA

* A new explosion rocked the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz on Saturday, according to preliminary data, nobody has been killed, a source from the law enforcement bodies said

*The car blast that rocked the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz on Saturday was not a terrorist act, deputy head of North Ossetia's Ministry of Internal Affairs said

* Three police officers were killed and one injured in a special operation in Russia's volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a military spokesman said

*Firefighters on Saturday put out all wildfires that had been ravaging in Altay Territory, the Russia's emergencies ministry said

*The film Silent Souls (Ovsyanki) by Russian film director Alexei Fedorchenko has been awarded International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize at the 67 Venice Film Festival

* Russia's Vera Zvonareva made it into her second successive Grand Slam final by defeating top seed Caroline Wozniacki in the US Open semifinals on Friday evening

* A militant has been killed in a police operation in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a police spokesman said on Saturday

* Funerals for six out of 17 people killed in Thursday's terrorist attack in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz will be held later on Saturday, local authorities said

* The Russian pair Victor Baluda and Alexander Rumyantsev have fallen short of the US Open junior final after crashing out to Briton Oliver Golding partnered by Czech Jiri Vesely in the doubles semi-finals

*Several webcams will be fixed in the village of Nikolayevka in the Altai Territory so as any visitor of the Russia's governmental website to have the capability to monitor the construction works at the scene, the Altai Territory administration's press service said