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18:16 GMT 23.10.2007

RUSSIA

* Moscow is against bringing bilateral issues with individual EU member states to the whole 27-nation bloc, the Russian ambassador to the EU told a popular daily

* A suicide bomber blew herself up and injured eight in a minibus taxi in the Kazbekovsky District of Daghestan, a republic in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, local police said

* Russia wants Palestinians to restore unity, but will not get caught up in resolving contradictions between rival Palestinian factions, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov said

* Russia's Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said NATO's eastward expansion and U.S. missile shield plans have encouraged Russia and Belarus to boost military-political cooperation

* Russia has dismantled another nine outdated Topol mobile missile systems under a major international treaty on strategic arms reductions, the Strategic Missile Forces said

WORLD

* Britain is in favor of a broader range of sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear program, the British prime minister said on Tuesday, following talks with his Israeli counterpart

* The leader of Poland's center-right opposition party Civic Platform announced that he is ready to open preliminary coalition talks

* The Russian and Japanese foreign ministers confirmed their commitment to finding a mutual solution for concluding a formal peace treaty

* Israeli servicemen killed two Palestinian militants believed to be behind several terrorist attacks in a shootout in the West Bank town of Jenin, the army reported

* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has unexpectedly cut his two-day visit to Yerevan short, cancelling his remaining plans, the Armenian president's press service said

* Iran will continue to uphold its right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, the country's chief nuclear negotiator said

* Six wild Asiatic elephants have been electrocuted while wreaking havoc after drinking rice beer, the Indo-Asian News Service said

* Over 300,000 people in the south of California were forced to flee their homes as wildfires continue to ravage the U.S. state's Los Angeles region, local media said

* NASA launched the U.S. space shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:38 a.m. local time (3:38 p.m. GMT), a spokesman for NASA's Kennedy Space Center said

BUSINESS

* Stroytransgaz, the construction arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, said it had started building an oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia

* Sweden's Scania, one of the world's leading truck and bus manufacturers, said it intended to invest 50-100 million euros ($71-142 million) in auto production in Russia

* Russia's oil output will increase 2.6% year-on-year to 492 million metric tons (3.6 billion bbl) in 2007, Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko said

* The European Union hopes Russia will increase gas deliveries and that energy supplies from Russia will be stable, the EU energy commissioner said

* The board of state-controlled pipeline monopoly Transneft [RTS: TRNF] approved an additional share issue to merge with oil transport company Transnefteproduct