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Main news of October 4

22:10 04/10/2007

RUSSIA

* Russia marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of the world's first-ever satellite, an event which changed the world forever

* Russia has proposed urging the Myanmar government to implement democratic change, the Foreign Ministry said

* Scientists have reported substantial climate change in the Arctic region, a senior official at Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) said

* Under the Federal space program for 2006-2015 Russia plans to conduct over 20 scientific projects, Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) head Anatoly Perminov said

* Three people died when a utility helicopter crashed into the sea near the western coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, local emergencies officials said

* Police have detained three members of an illegal armed group in Grozny, the capital of Russia's unsettled North Caucasus Chechen republic, a local police source said

* A Proton rocket will launch three global navigation Glonass satellites on October 25 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the system's manufacturer said

* Construction workers have uncovered the remains of at least 34 bodies in Nikolskaya street, in the centre of Moscow, a police spokesman said

WORLD

* The leaders of North and South Korea signed a historic joint declaration in Pyongyang pledging a commitment to peace talks and economic ties, Yonhap said

* A crew of five Russians and 13 passengers were killed in an air crash in Congo, the Congolese humanitarian affairs minister said

* Typhoon Lekima has continued to wreak havoc in central Vietnam, leaving thousands homeless and causing millions of dollars worth of damage, a spokesman for the country's emergencies service said

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko seeks a coalition of "orange" parties in parliament after the early polls, not a broader alliance with his longtime rival, the prime minister, a leader of a pro-presidential bloc said

* Tokyo welcomes North Korea's agreement to decommission its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by December 31, Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said

* Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the international community should give Iran more time to show its nuclear program is peaceful

* No force in the world can halt Iran's progress in the nuclear realm, President of the Islamic Republic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said

* Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, is ready to resign as Armed Forces chief next month and launch a national reconciliation policy if re-elected president, Pakistani media said

* Ozone loss over the South Pole has seen a 30% reduction this year, the European Space Agency (ESA) said

* The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that Russia should pay three Chechen women about $290,000 in compensation

* A total of 2,000 miners have been rescued from a South Africa gold mine following an accident, the mine's owners, Harmony, said on their Web site

* Ukraine has started reducing its consumption of natural gas supplied to the country by Gazprom, the Russian energy giant said


BUSINESS

* Italy's Enel intends to invest about $9 billion in the Russian electric power generation, transportation and sales market, the company's country manager for Russia and the CIS said

* Sukhoi Log, a major gold deposit in Eastern Siberia, has reserves of almost 3,000 metric tons of gold and over 1,500 metric tons of silver, Russian Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev said

* Vnesheconombank and the Development Bank of Kazakhstan have proposed establishing an interstate investment fund of around $1 billion, the Russian bank's president said

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