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RUSSIA

* Eleven parties will run for the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, on December 2, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said

* Russia began large-scale military exercises in the Far East to practice interoperability between troops, the press office of the Far Eastern military district said

* A Tu-154 plane made a safe emergency landing at an airport in the North Caucasus Saturday night over problems with an engine, the regional emergencies center said

WORLD

* Turkey said that a military option was still on the table to deal with Iraq-based separatist Kurdish rebels

* U.S. astronauts made their second spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) to attach a node to the station brought by the Discovery shuttle, NASA said

* The Belarus opposition held an authorized rally in Minsk to commemorate the victims of the Stalin-era repressions

* Eight miners are believed to be trapped beneath the rock that collapsed in a coalmine in eastern Ukraine, the regional rescue service said

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