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RUSSIA

* Russian Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev has been appointed head of an anti-crisis working group in the agriculture sphere, a first deputy prime minister said

* The Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that Russia's stance on the Macedonia naming dispute remains unchanged, despite misleading media reports on a meeting between the Russian and Macedonian foreign ministers

* A car exploded in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia on Saturday, killing the driver, the local interior ministry said

* At least two Russian servicemen were killed on Saturday when a military convoy in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia came under militant fire, the local interior ministry said

* A security officer was killed in a special operation to detain a gunman suspected of aiding militants in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, a police source said

WORLD

* A Chinese drug company has recalled all its injection preparations after a ginseng-containing medicine caused three deaths earlier in October, the country's health authorities said

* Thousands of people gathered on the streets of Baghdad on Saturday to protest against the U.S. occupation and a pact that would allow U.S. forces to remain for at least three more years

* South Ossetian police posts were given an order to return fire in the event of gunfire from Georgian positions, after Saturday morning's attack, the republic's interior minister said

* A British man who murdered his wife after she changed her status on the social networking website Facebook to "single" has been given a life sentence, British media reported

* Almost all Ukrainian regions have outstanding debts to state company Naftogaz for natural gas supplied during the 2007-2008 heating season, the company president told the Zerkalo Nedeli weekly

* Diplomats at all North Korean embassies have been told to wait for an important message from Pyongyang, a Japanese newspaper reported

* U.S. President George W. Bush will meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Saturday to discuss the global credit crisis

* Police posts in South Ossetia came under fire from the nearby Georgian village of Nikozi on Saturday, the republic's interior ministry said

BUSINESS

* The Kremlin announced on Saturday a range of government measures to help Russia's economy through the credit crisis, including the use of state funds to support housing demand, agriculture projects, and small businesses