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19:11 GMT 09.11.2007

RUSSIA

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said:

- Russia could sign a visa facilitation and readmission treaty with Switzerland in early 2008

- Russia does not interfere in Georgia's internal affairs but will move to prevent provocations in the country's breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

* Georgia's attempts to blame Moscow for the mass anti-president street protests in Tbilisi have severely aggravated bilateral relations, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

* Anatoly Perminov, the head of Russia's space agency, Roskosmos, said:

- Russia will build three additional modules for its segment of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2011

- Russia is to build a new space center in the Far East, but will continue to use Kazakhstan's Baikonur launch site until at least 2020

* Luc Van den Brande, co-rapporteur on Russia at PACE, said the number of international monitors at the upcoming parliamentary elections in Russia should be at least doubled

* Ukraine has signaled it will be content with a Russian natural gas price of $160 per 1,000 cubic meters, a top manager of Russian energy giant Gazprom said

* Russia's Justice Minister Vladimir Ustinov called on Swedish authorities to hand over a Chechen charged with involvement in the abduction and killing of a journalist, the ministry said

* The Finance Ministry estimates net capital inflow into Russia in October 2007 at $11 billion, a ministry source said

* At least three people died and one was injured in a gas explosion in a 12-storey apartment block in south Moscow, rescue services said

* Teenage ultra-nationalist gangs may prove to have been responsible for the murders of up to 50 people of "non-Russian appearance" in Moscow this year, Russian media reported

* About 80,000 drug-related deaths are registered annually in Russia, Alexander Yanevsky of the Federal Drugs Control Service said

WORLD

* Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who has been placed under house arrest, said she was determined to continue the struggle for democratic reform in the country

* Polish President Lech Kaczynski nominated Donald Tusk as the country's prime minister, and asked him to form a government

* Nine of twenty Iranian nationals held prisoner by U.S. troops in Iraq since January have been released, Iranian media reported

* Georgia's parliament formally approved a nationwide state of emergency, which President Mikheil Saakashvili declared amid mass anti-government protests two days ago

* North Korea announced it was willing to cooperate with its traditional foe the United States in fighting terrorism, and thanked the U.S. for its recent help in rescuing North Korean sailors

* The death toll from a gas leak in a coal mine in southwest China has risen to 32, Xinhua news agency said

* Georgia's opposition will nominate a single candidate for January's early presidential elections, which were announced on Thursday after six days of mass rallies in the capital, a party leader said

* Another person has died following a U.S. military helicopter crash in the northeast of Italy on Thursday, bringing the death toll to six, Italian media said