| October 2008 |
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Russia's top court ruled on Wednesday "to exonerate" the country's last tsar and his family, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, as victims of political repression. 
Russia will deliver an additional 18 Smerch multiple rocket launch systems to India, the state-run arms exporter said on Wednesday. 
U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill began a visit to North Korea on Wednesday, reportedly bringing a new proposal for Pyongyang on a plan to verify its denuclearization efforts, South Korea's Yonhap agency said. 
Unarmed European Union observers in Georgia began their monitoring of a ceasefire between Moscow and Tbilisi on Wednesday morning, Georgian media reported. 
Iran is likely to limit cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after a new UN resolution on the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program, a senior Iranian MP has said. 
An exercise involving Russian and Chinese rescuers and firefighters began on Wednesday in the Far Eastern Russian village of Rovnoe, a local emergencies service spokesman said. 
U.S. senators are to vote on Wednesday on a reworked $700 billion financial bailout package that comes after the House of Representatives turned down an initial version of the plan. 



