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18:17 GMT 12.10.2007

RUSSIA

* The U.S. and Russia failed to resolve a missile defense dispute at Friday's talks in Moscow between the countries' foreign and defense ministers, but agreed to resume negotiations next April in Washington

* Russian President Vladimir Putin said:

- he hoped the U.S. would not rush to finalize missile defense agreements with Europe until talks with Russia are over

- he calls for expanding the Russia-U.S. agreement on the scrapping of short and medium-range ballistic missiles, to include other countries

* President Putin will back the shared position of the six international mediators on Iran's nuclear program during his visit to Tehran next week, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* A Russian Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft carrying the 16th International Space Station crew, including Malaysia's first astronaut, has docked with the station, mission control said

* The first tests of a new breed of Russian space launch vehicles, Angara carrier rockets, will start on schedule in 2011, Sergei Ivanov, a Russian first deputy prime minister, said

* Russia and India have reaffirmed plans to draft a comprehensive cooperation treaty to boost trade, as well as ties in a range of other areas, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said

* Russia refuses to change its position on U.S. plans to deploy missile defense elements in Europe and demands on an arms reduction treaty, a senior Defense Ministry official said

* Conflicts in the Middle East need to be dealt with in their entirety at an international conference engaging the whole international community, a Russian envoy to the region said

* About 250,000 birds have been culled at a poultry farm that was the site of an outbreak of bird flu in early September in the Krasnodar Territory, south Russia, local officials said

WORLD

* Turkey has not recalled its ambassador to the United States, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said

* Former U.S vice president Al Gore and the UN climate change panel were awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their attempts to warn the world of the global warming threat

* U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Washington needs to pursue a missile shield in Central Europe but is willing to consider other potential locations as well

* Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Soe Win, believed to have been suffering from acute leukaemia, died in hospital, state media announced

* The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ordered Russia to pay 40,000 euros ($56,000) in compensation to a former Tajik trade minister for his unlawful detention

* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko:

- proposed that Russia start to build a second leg of a pipeline delivering natural gas to Europe, and offered free transit for five years

- accused Russia's state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport of delaying deliveries and failing to honor its contractual obligations

BUSINESS

* Russian top WTO negotiator Maxim Medvedkov said:

- Russia will discuss its bid to join the World Trade Organization with Georgia on October 19 in Geneva

- Russia will ask the World Trade Organization to protect its interests if the European Union passes laws restricting Russian energy companies' operations on its territory

* Gazprom discussed its possible involvement in new projects in Venezuela at negotiations in the South American country, Russia's state-controlled natural gas giant said

* Russia's Unified Energy System (UES) it will sell its stake in heavy machinery manufacturer Power Machines to a strategic domestic investor through a closed tender by late November