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18:03 GMT 10.09.2007

RUSSIA

* Russia does not rule out putting limits on foreign investment in the country's economy, President Vladimir Putin said

* Laboratory tests have confirmed that a dead swan found in the Krasnodar Territory was infected with H5 bird flu virus, but not with the N1 strain, a source in the local administration said

* Russian senator Mikhail Margelov said he planned to run for the chairmanship of the world's oldest parliamentary assembly in January 2008

* Anatoly Chubais, the chief executive of Russia's electricity giant UES, could eventually head a state-run nanotechnology corporation, where he is currently a member of the supervisory board, Russian business daily Vedomosti said

* A Moscow court has frozen 17 million rubles ($663,000) belonging to banker Alexei Frenkel, a suspect in the murder of a top banking regulator, Frenkel's lawyer said

* A court in Russia's Far East fined the Japanese captain of the Hoshin Maru-88 trawler 300,000 rubles ($11,700) for poaching, an aide to the local prosecutor said

* The chief of Russia's space agency said Russia would launch a spacecraft for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2008 from the launch site in Kazakhstan

WORLD

* Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested at Islamabad airport after returning from a long exile, and deported to Saudi Arabia, Pakistani TV reported

* Iran will not stop its nuclear enrichment program even if new UN sanctions are introduced, Ali Larijani, the country's top nuclear negotiator, said in a TV interview

* Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to set up joint negotiating teams to resolve key points of contention in the lead-up to a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference in November

* At least 37 people were killed and around 150 injured when a truck exploded in Mexico, the Europa Press news agency said, quoting local authorities and eyewitnesses

* The leader of the die-hard Islamist movement Fatah al-Islam was not among scores of militants killed when the Lebanese army seized control of a refugee camp in early September, the country's chief prosecutor said

* A former head of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission confirmed earlier media reports that India is building its own nuclear submarine

* Azerbaijani, U.S. and Russian experts could meet September 18 to discuss the possible joint use of the Gabala radar Russia leases from Azerbaijan, the Russian ambassador in Azerbaijan said

BUSINESS

* State-controlled Russian gas giant Gazprom tried to outbid a $5-billion offer for The Wall Street Journal's publisher, Dow Jones & Co., from media giant News Corporation, The Times reported

* Russia will pay off its $580-million Soviet-era debt to the United Arab Emirates including $110 million in interest by the end of next month, Sergei Storchak, a deputy Russian finance minister, said

* Oil company Tatneft based in the Russian Volga republic of Tatarstan said its oil production increased 1.9% to 17 million tons (127 million bbl) in January-August 2007 year-on-year

* Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] said it has increased gas supplies to Turkey from 20 million to 30 million cubic meters per day after a major explosion on a pipeline bringing gas from Iran halted supplies late Sunday

* Russia's largest wholesale power generating company OGK-1 has chosen the Bank of New York as the depositary and lead manager of its upcoming IPO on foreign exchanges, the company said

* LUKoil, Russia's largest independent crude producer, and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) have signed a cooperation agreement, LUKoil said in a statement