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19:02 GMT 10.12.2008

RUSSIA

* Russia is in the process of withdrawing almost all its tanks from the Kaliningrad exclave, which borders NATO members Poland and Lithuania, the chief of the General Staff said

* Rescue workers found a third body in a residential building under reconstruction that collapsed in central Moscow earlier in the day, three construction workers are still missing, a police source said

* The Russian Orthodox Church's ruling body will gather on January 27-29 to elect a new patriarch, the Church's interim leader said

* A Proton-M carrier rocket with a Ciel 2 Canadian telecommunications satellite on board was launched from the Baikonur space center Russia leases from Kazakhstan

* Despite the difficulties facing Russia's economy amid the global credit crunch, the country has not abandoned its plans to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* A schoolboy in the northwest Russian city of Veliky Novgorod released a large volume of pepper spray in the school toilets in an attempt to disrupt class, injuring 63 pupils, local police said

* An unidentified assailant threw a Molotov cocktail at the Greek consulate building in Moscow, starting a small fire that was extinguished by embassy staff, a police source said

* A court in Nazran rejected a request by the family of a high-profile journalist from Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia to reclassify his death in police custody as murder, a lawyer said

WORLD

* Thousands took to the streets of the Greek capital as a nationwide strike brought the country, which has been hit by mass riots following the fatal shooting of a teenager by police, to a halt

* The leader of the main opposition party in Greece appealed for an end to the violence in the country over the recent killing of a teenager by police

* Three days of international negotiations in Beijing on North Korea's denuclearization process were broken off after the parties failed to make progress, chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill said

* The World Health Organization (WHO) has said up to 60,000 people could be infected with cholera in Zimbabwe in the wake of the country's worst epidemic in decades

* U.S. forces killed six Afghan police officers in a friendly-fire incident in the city of Qalat in southern Afghanistan, a local deputy police chief said

* At least 63 people have died in a bus fire in northern India, the IANS news agency reported

* Israel agreed to allow 100 million shekels ($25 million) in cash into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to prevent a collapse of the banking system, an Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman said

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said the recent formation of a parliamentary coalition has put an end to a political crisis in the country

* An armored vehicle carrying OSCE monitors came under fire near Georgia's border with South Ossetia, no one was injured, European officials said

* The U.S. State Department has expressed serious concern over a police search of the St. Petersburg offices of the Memorial human rights organization

* The Somali ambassador to Moscow, Mohamed Handule, said Ukraine and all sides involved in negotiations to free ships seized off the east African coast need to cooperate with the Somali authorities

* Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov reiterated that the deployment of a U.S. missile shield in central Europe would disrupt the strategic balance among the world's nuclear powers

* Russia is concerned over Georgian moves to escalate tensions in the Caucasus, but will not under any circumstances invade the country, the chief of the Russian General Staff, Gen. Nikolai Makarov, said

* The president of the separatist province attacked by Georgia in August told a Russian newspaper that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili tried several years ago to win his loyalty with a large bribe

* A ceremony started in Stockholm to honor the Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, medicine, economic sciences and literature

BUSINESS

* LUKoil intends to supply petroleum products to Argentina, Russia's largest independent oil company said after signing a memorandum of understanding with Energia Argentina S.A. and Pobater S.A.

* The auto giant Daimler AG has turned to Germany's anti-trust body for approval of its deal to buy shares in KamAZ, Russia's largest truck-maker, the German regulator said