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Main news of October 13

19:04 13/10/2007

RUSSIA

* A draft law raising the base monthly pension as of December 1 by around $12 has been submitted to the lower house of Russia's parliament, State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov said

* Russia's Elena Dementieva will meet world No. 7 Serena Williams of the U.S. in the final of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, after both players clinched straight-set victories

* Russia will cut import duty on dairy products due to rising prices and raise export duty on grain, the finance and economics ministers announced

* Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov hosted talks in Moscow with the United States state and defense secretaries

* A former Russian UN official who has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison in the U.S. for money laundering has protested his innocence and said he will appeal

WORLD

* At least nine people are confirmed dead following a household gas explosion that caused a section of a building to collapse in Dnepropetrovsk, south-central Ukraine, rescuers said

* Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged Islamic countries to boycott November's U.S.-sponsored international conference on the Middle East

* U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Russian human rights activists in Moscow on Saturday, a day after unsuccessful defense talks with the country's leaders

* Two bodies have been found in the Caspian Sea following the crash of an Azerbaijani helicopter carrying six men, an oil company whose workers were on board announced

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