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RUSSIA

* Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov won a special Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for his film "12," a courtroom drama based in the troubled North Caucasus republic of Chechnya

* Belgium's Justine Henin clinched her second U.S. Open title in New York with a straight-sets victory over Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova

* President Vladimir Putin thanked leaders of Pacific Rim countries for backing Russia's bid to host the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit

* Russia's soccer team secured a convincing 3-0 victory against Macedonia in the Euro 2008 qualifiers to take second place in group E behind Croatia, and will face England on Wednesday

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* The leaders of 21 Pacific Rim economies rounded off their summit in Sydney Sunday with joint statements on trade and climate change, and a final declaration

* The conservative pro-government Istilqal party has prevailed in Morocco's parliamentary elections, depriving a leading Islamist party of an expected victory, the interior minister said

* Australian Air Force fighter jets intercepted a small civilian airplane that breached a no-fly zone over the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit

* Guatemalans headed to the polls following one of the country's deadliest election campaigns in which more than 50 candidates, activists and their relatives were killed