| October 2008 |
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Taliban militants killed 31 passengers travelling in a bus from Kandahar to Kabul in Afghanistan, the country's Defense Ministry said on Sunday. 
Election officials in Azerbaijan confirmed on Sunday incumbent President Ilham Aliyev's landslide victory in last week's elections, following a complete vote count.
BP could appoint the former head of Russia's metals giant Norilsk Nickel as the new chief executive of the Russian joint venture, TNK-BP, a British paper reported on Sunday. 
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was selected by Social Democrats on Saturday as the candidate to challenge Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's election. 
Russian energy giant Gazprom expects its net profit to hit $30 billion in 2008 against 658 billion rubles ($25 billion) a year earlier, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said.
U.S. and European leaders have proposed a series of world summits to discuss the global financial crisis.



