| October 2008 |
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Russia's two stock exchanges, the MICEX and the RTS, did not open for full trading Friday upon instructions from the financial markets' regulator. 
At least 21 people have been killed and another 27 injured in a university bus crash in Thailand, the country's The Nation news website said Friday. 
Finance ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized countries meet in Washington on Friday as global finance officials gather for the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank. 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chaves said Friday that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pay an official visit to his country in late November. 
A Soyuz-FG carrier rocket due to lift off Sunday to take a crew of three to the International Space Station has been moved to the launch pad at Kazakhstan's Baikonur space center. 



