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19:33 GMT 30.10.2007

RUSSIA

* Russia successfully tested a short-range anti-ballistic missile at a test site in Kazakhstan, a Strategic Missile Forces spokesman announced

* President Vladimir Putin, speaking at a ceremony to commemorate victims of Stalinist repression said political battles are necessary, but they must not be destructive

* Russia's new-generation fighter plane, currently being jointly developed with India, will make its maiden flight no later than in 2012, a senior Air Force official said

* Russian President Vladimir Putin will participate in TV broadcasts as part of the parliamentary election campaign for the United Russia party, the head of the party's election committee said

* Russia expects to sign an agreement with India to build another four reactors for the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in November, Russia's acting security council secretary said

* A Kremlin source said Moscow was concerned about Ukraine's inaction over an oil refinery, which was raided October 19 as part of an ongoing row between Russian and Ukrainian shareholders

WORLD

* President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said fresh U.S. sanctions against Iran, imposed last week, would not affect the country's economy

* North Korea agreed at six-nation talks to receive aid in equipment, in place of half of the fuel aid pledged to the country for disabling its nuclear reactor, Seoul's Yonhap agency said

* Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told the Egyptian media he would remain committed to international resolutions at a Middle East conference initiated by the U.S. and due later this year

* A peace treaty between Israelis and Palestinians should be signed in six months after a Mideast conference due in the U.S. later this year, the head of the Palestinian National Authority said

* Turkey expects urgent action from the United States to destroy Kurdish insurgent bases in north Iraq, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said

* At least seven people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Rawalpindi, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, local media said

* Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Motaki and visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed bilateral issues and pressing international and regional problems at a meeting in Tehran

* Unilateral economic sanctions against Iran will not promote collective actions for a settlement on the Iranian nuclear problem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* The first launch of a South Korean rocket from the Naro space center, 450 km south of Seoul, built with Russia's participation is set to go ahead in 2008, the Russian Space Agency said

* Azerbaijan's deputy foreign minister said the U.S. and British embassies faced no security threat despite reports of planned Islamist attacks on foreign embassies and government buildings

* Russian peacekeepers in Georgia's conflict zone with Abkhazia said they released a group of five Georgian policemen after the Georgian president arrived in the area to intervene

* NASA astronauts Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock successfully completed their third spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS)

BUSINESS

* The majority of shareholders in Russia's Unified Energy System have voted in favor of reorganizing the electricity holding to end its monopoly status, a company statement said

* Russia's economics ministry has made an upward revision of its Urals price forecast for 2007 from $65.5 to $67 per barrel, a senior ministry official said

* Tatneft, Russia's sixth-largest oil producer, posted a 7.9% drop in US GAAP net profit year-on-year to 16.5 billion rubles ($668 million) in the first half of 2007