* Novaya Gazeta shareholders have offered 25 million rubles (about $930,000) for information that could help resolve the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, newspaper's deputy editor-in-chief said
* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said:
- the regime of pro-Western Georgian ruler Mikheil Saakashvili stepped over all rules of civilized behavior and Russia's response to these actions was absolutely adequate
- Russia has no intention to annex Georgian territories but will not ignore acts of aggression against its citizens in Abkhazia and South Ossetia
* Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said Iran is ready to continue talks on uranium enrichment in a constructive manner, but ruled out the possibility of a unilateral moratorium on nuclear research
* Russian combat engineers, in Lebanon to repair infrastructure devastated during a month of fighting this summer between Hizbollah fighters and the Israeli military, have finished construction of a tent camp and are ready to start the relief effort on October 9, a RIA Novosti correspondent said.
* A Turkish citizen carrying a self-made bomb was arrested near restricted-access town of Krasnoznamensk outside the Russian capital, a police source said
