Main news of November 14

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russia will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in September 2012, a source in the APEC secretariat said

* The FBI has taken under its protection Russian Foreign Intelligence Services (SVR) colonel who has allegedly betrayed Russian spy ring in the United States, the NBC reported

* The U.S. have offered Israel 20 fighter jets in exchange for settlement freeze in the West Bank

* Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has hit out at U.S.'s proposal to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said he plans to discuss European missile defenses with U.S. President Barack Obama at a NATO summit in Lisbon later this month

* The death toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic has topped 900, the Caribbean's country health ministry said

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has acknowledged progress in the process of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO)

* An improvised explosive devise had been recovered from railway tracks in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region and later defused, Russia's Investigative Committee said

* Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Moscow on Sunday to demand that police find those behind last week's brutal attack on Kremlin critic Oleg Kashin

* The Kremlin has said it may buy an Antonov An-158 jet from Ukraine for President Dmitry Medvedev

SCIENCE

* A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a U.S. telecommunications satellite has blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan

SPORTS

* Russia have  defended their title against Brazil in the final of the world women's volleyball championship in Japan

* Zenit St. Petersburg have clinched a Russian Premier League title with two games to spare by thrashing Rostov 5-0 in front of their jubilant fans in St. Petersburg

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