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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant will be connected to the national grid and begin to produce electrical energy in the middle of February 2011, the country's ISNA news agency said, citing the country's atomic chief

* The death toll in a powerful tsunami off the western coast of Indonesia has risen to 108 people, with over 500 missing

* The Azerbaijani government uses "criminal laws" and violent attacks to silence dissenting journalists, Human Rights Watch said in a report

* Paul the psychic octopus, who became a pop culture sensation by correctly predicting the outcome of eight World Cup matches, died on Tuesday at the age of two years, Oberhausen Sea Life Center, where Paul lived, said

RUSSIA

* Russian polar explorer and President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy to the Arctic and Antarctica Artur Chilingarov was awarded the French National Order of the Legion of Honor

* The majority of Moscow's rights activists have accepted the conditions set by the Moscow city government to hold a rally on central Triumfalnaya Square on October 31, leading activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva said

* Russia has slipped to 154th place in Transparency International's 2010 Corruption Index, down 8 from last year, the organization announced

* A Russian business daily issued a retraction to an article published on October 8, accusing Yelena Baturina, the wife of Moscow's former mayor Yury Luzhkov, of receiving favoritism in running her construction business under Luzhkov's mayoral tenure

* The media were prohibited from attending new Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin's first session in the Moscow City Hall

* Russia's Progress M-05M cargo spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday to begin an independent scientific mission until November 15, a Mission Control spokesman said

BUSINESS

* Russia's largest oil company Rosneft may participate in development of oil and gas condensate deposits and oil refinery projects in Ecuador, the company said

SPORTS

* England’s 2018 World Cup bid team has lodged an official complaint with FIFA over comments made by the head of Russia’s rival campaign

DEFENSE

* The Russian Defense Ministry has announced a tender for the purchase of amphibious assault ships for the Russian Navy, a deputy defense minister said

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