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18:15 GMT 11.10.2007

RUSSIA

* Russia has successfully test-fired a short-range anti-ballistic missile at a test site in Kazakhstan, a Space Forces spokesman said

* Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a set of goals for the country's demographic policy up to 2025, the Kremlin press service said

* Russian parliament's lower house, the State Duma, passed a bill in its first reading on forming a Russian nuclear state corporation, to be named Rosatom

* The delay in the delivery of the first Boeing-787 Dreamliners will not affect the timeline for the plane's shipment to Russia's Aeroflot and S7 Airlines, spokesmen for the companies said

* The United States will not abandon its plans to deploy elements of its missile defense system in Central Europe after the upcoming talks with Russia, a senior Russian military expert said

* The missile defense elements the U.S. plans to deploy in Poland could be used as shock weapons, and present a real threat to Russia, a missile defense expert said

* A court in the city of Vladimir, 125 miles to the east of Moscow, has rendered illegal a seven-year-old marriage between a grandmother and a grandson, the Prosecutor General's Office said

* Russia's Supreme Court upheld a 17-year prison sentence earlier handed down to Ali Kaitov, the former son-in-law of the president of Karachayevo-Circassia

* Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said foreign capital should come into Russia, but only if it employs local resources and staff

WORLD

* Iran and experts from the UN nuclear watchdog are satisfied with the results of the recent talks on Tehran's controversial nuclear program, Iran's deputy nuclear negotiator said

* North Korea could have accumulated up to 60 kg of plutonium since the early 1990s, Robert Gallucci, a former chief U.S. negotiator with Pyongyang, told a seminar in Washington

* Opium production in Myanmar has leapt this year, with cultivation up 29% to 27,700 hectares, the UN drugs control chief said

* Turkey's army has prepared several scenarios of a trans-border operation in north Iraq to counter Kurdish insurgents, which the government will pass to parliament, a local newspaper said

* U.S. experts arrived in North Korea to discuss preparations for the disablement of the country's nuclear facilities by the end of 2007 under a six-party denuclearization deal, Yonhap reported

* A committee in the United States Congress backed a resolution recognizing the 1915 massacre of around 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide, rejecting protests from the U.S. president

* British writer Doris Lessing has been named winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the secretary for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said

* Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko reaffirmed plans to build the ex-Soviet state's first nuclear power plant to ensure energy security against the backdrop of depleting fuel reserves and growing energy prices

* At least 39 Hindu pilgrims were killed as a bus went off the road in the Himalayas in the Indian north-eastern state of Uttarakhand, the NDTV channel said

* Turkey is considering the suspension of military cooperation with the U.S. after a House of Representatives committee adopted a resolution classing the 1915 massacre of some 1.5 million Armenians as genocide

* A British mining expert was killed in south Lebanon by a cluster bomb left over from the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, officials said

* Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said a quarter of a million soldiers were available to defend his country against any possible "external threat"

* Turkey has recalled its ambassador from the United States after a U.S. House of Representatives committee passed a resolution classing the 1915 massacre of Armenians as genocide, the Turkish NTV television company said

* Sudan's government is using all means to try to drag out the deployment of a UN peacekeeping contingent to the country's western province of Darfur, a resistance movement leader said

* The preliminary results of a UN investigation confirm that Georgia was responsible for the September 20 incident in the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict zone, Russia's envoy to the UN said

BUSINESS

* Sakhalin Energy, the operator of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, said it has so far signed $10 billion worth of contracts with Russian companies under the project

* Russia could be invited to join the project to build the Odessa-Brody pipeline, designed to pump oil from the Caspian to Europe, bypassing Russia, a Ukrainian official said

* The Luxadvor company, controlled by Sergei Pugachyov, senator of the Russian Republic of Tuva, has bought the French luxury food chain Hediard, the French Les Echos newspaper said