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RUSSIA

* Gazprom's CEO and Ukraine's fuel and energy minister agreed that Ukraine would repay its $1.3 billion gas debt by November 1, the Russian energy giant said

* Andrei Lugovoi and Kommersant, a leading Russian business daily, agreed to keep working on an out-of-court agreement on the businessman's $800,000 lawsuit against the newspaper until November 6

* Russia and the U.S. have agreed to draft an agreement on the extradition of suspects in criminal investigations, the Investigations Committee of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said

* President Vladimir Putin signed:

- a law on the ratification of an additional protocol between Russia and the UN nuclear watchdog to a Soviet-era agreement on guarantees in Russia

- a decree on the ratification of a federal border treaty between Russia and Latvia

* Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia said the existing disagreements between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches are preventing him from meeting with the Pope

* The death toll in Tuesday's fire in a management institute in southeast Moscow has risen to nine, a Russian emergencies ministry spokesman said

* A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman voiced concerns about an attempt to search Russian diplomats at an Iraqi airport

* A state-of-the-art radar being built near Armavir, in southern Russia, will be on combat duty in late 2007, Colonel-General Vladimir Popovkin, the commander of the Russian Space Forces said
WORLD

* North Korea has agreed to decommission its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by December 31, Chinese top negotiator Wu Dawei said

* North Korea's leader proposed extending the ongoing inter-Korean summit by an extra day, but the South Korean president declined the offer, Yonhap reported

* Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko invited parties to start talks on forming a coalition government after Sunday's early parliamentary polls as preliminary results suggest the possibility of a fresh political standoff

* Poland's ambassador to Iraq, General Edward Pietrzyk, was injured in an explosion in Baghdad, a spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry said

* Rival Fatah and Hamas movements have agreed to resume peace talks in Egypt, the al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper said

* Poland will decide on the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system after early parliamentary elections, set for October 21, a respected Polish daily said

* At least three marine police officers were killed in an explosion near the unit's headquarters in Gaza City, a source in the local health ministry said

* The African Union (AU) has requested the African peacekeeping contingent, based in the conflict zone in Darfur, be strengthened following attacks by rebels, Arab media said

* Israel and PNA are to begin drafting a peace framework declaration to be presented at the U.S.-hosted Mideast peace conference in November, Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian negotiator said

* Having killed five people in the Philippines at the weekend, the tropical typhoon Lekima hit the Vietnamese coast on Wednesday, claiming at least five lives, the country's emergencies service said

* European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Wednesday he intends to meet with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani in the near future

BUSINESS

 * LUKoil, Russia's largest independent crude producer, and Gazprom Neft said they may establish a joint venture within the next two months, LUKoil CEO Vagit Alekperov said

* The first half of 2007 saw a 30 % year-on-year turnover increase to $7.7 billion between Kazakhstan and Russia, Kazakhstan Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Kuandyk Bishimbaev said

*  Net private capital outflow from Russia in the third quarter of 2007 totaled $9.4 billion, the Central Bank of Russia said

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