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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Eleven people were killed and three are missing after a flooding in Russia's southern Krasnodar Territory

* Russia urges Israel to reconsider its plans to build more Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana took part in the all-Russia census

* Acting Moscow Mayor Vladimir Resin said the decision to propose Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin as Moscow's new mayor was right

* Moscow authorities allowed Russian political opposition members to hold a rally on October 23 at downtown Moscow's Pushkinskaya Square, a human rights advocate Lev Ponomaryov said

WORLD

* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez praised their close friendship and discussed bilateral ties

* Russian-Indian joint antiterrorism drills begin on the Indian territory

* Russia and the United States submitted to the UN General Assembly a draft resolution on strategic arms reduction based on the new Russian-U.S. arms cuts treaty

*A blast in a Chinese coal mine killed at least 20 people and trapped another 30

* The United States will "watch closely" cooperation between Russia and Venezuela in the nuclear sphere, but has confidence in Russia regarding the observance of international nuclear non-proliferation obligations, the U.S. state department said

* The world's longest aerial tramway was opened on Saturday in southern Armenia

BUSINESS

* Belarus and Venezuela signed a contract under which the Latin American country will annually supply 10 million metric tons of oil to the ex-Soviet republic in 2011-2013

* Russia's large independent oil and gas producer Itera has put into operation its $176 million natural gas pipeline in Turkmenistan

SPORTS

* Russia's former IBF mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (19-0, 14 KOs) knocked out Nigerian heavyweight boxer Teke Oruh (14-2, 6 KOs) in the fifth round