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Main news of December 13

19:12 GMT 13.12.2007

RUSSIA

* Moscow and Tehran have agreed a timeframe to complete the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, the Russian contractor building the plant said

* Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, was nominated as a candidate for the country's March 2, 2008 presidential election

* Russia is seeking an early solution to all issues on Iran's nuclear program, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said opening talks with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki

* The majority of Russians would have backed any presidential candidate endorsed by President Vladimir Putin, a national pollster said

* Russia's delegation at an ongoing UN climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, is to push for the adoption of concrete commitments, the delegation's head said

* A total of 25 independent candidates have to date submitted applications for the Russian presidential polls due on March 2, 2008, a Central Election Commission spokesperson said

* A district court in south Russia ordered an international search for the mayor of Stavropol, charged with abuse of office, a local police spokesman said

* Russia will launch a crackdown on illegal exports of crab and other bio-resources to Pacific Rim countries from the beginning of 2008, the State Fisheries Committee announced

WORLD

* The U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense policy bill authorizing $178 million for nuclear security in Russia

* At least seven people were killed in Quetta, southwest Pakistan, by two suicide bombers, national media reported citing military sources

* A bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives increased the reward for anyone helping to capture the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden to $50 million, a House spokesman said

* At least 1,000 women took to the streets of Afghanistan to pray for the end of almost 30 years of continuous war

* Tropical storm Olga claimed the lives of at least 11 people with many missing in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic, Spanish news agency EFE reported

* A powerful explosion on a train in India claimed at least five lives, national media said

* Three Islamist militants were killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian television reported

* A Chinese 11-year-old dubbed an "angel girl" after being born with a third arm growing from her back has undergone an operation to remove her extra limb

* Over 600 international observers are to monitor early parliamentary polls scheduled for December 16 in Kyrgyzstan, a spokesman for the ex-Soviet republic's Central Election Commission said

* Kyrgyzstan is initiating procedures with Russia that would permit citizens of either country to apply for dual citizenship, the Central Asian republic's president said

* A book of fairy tales handwritten by JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, sold for a record 1.95 million pounds ($4 million) at an auction in London

BUSINESS

* Iran has proposed that Russia's largest independent crude producer LUKoil expand its participation in oil and gas projects in the Islamic Republic, the LUKoil press office said

* Trade between Russia and Iran more than doubled in January-September 2007 to $2.2 billion, the Russian co-chairman of the bilateral inter-governmental commission said