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Main news of November 21

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russia will jointly with NATO monitor the nuclear programs of some countries, including Iran, President Dmitry Medvedev said

* The radical Islamic group Hamas is seeking to keep Palestinian militants from firing rockets into Israel in an attempt to ease tensions in the area after a series of Israeli air strikes on the enclave, the Arab newspaper Asharq Alaswat reported

* Israel has filed a complaint with the UN over recent rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip and said it may exercise its right to self-defense, an official statement issued by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said

* Palestinians will not resume peace talks with Israel until it fully halts the construction of Jewish settlements on occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said

* A chemical factory exploded in Yusche county in north China's Shanxi province, killing three and injuring at least 37 workers, local media reported

* The death toll from recent eruptions at Indonesia's volatile Mount Merapi has reached 304, Indonesian media said

* A museum on the Nuremberg Trials was opened in the German city of Nuremberg

* U.S. Secretary of Sate Hillary Clinton said she has no plans to run for president or any other selective political office in the future

 

RUSSIA

* Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom denied claims by the British media that former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium originated from Russia

* Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom has offered Indian companies cooperation in development of uranium deposits in Russia and other countries, Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said

* About 150 people gathered in downtown Moscow to hold a rally in defense of Russian journalists and protest against the arbitrariness of investigation

* The last two cars of a commuter train bound from the city of Tver to Moscow got derailed in the Russian capital's north, no one was killed or injured


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