| November 2008 |
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Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi held separate talks in Moscow on Saturday with Russia's president and prime minister. 
A Russian delegation is to arrive in Caracas on Monday to discuss preparations for President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Venezuela in late November, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday. 
The death toll from heavy rains in central Vietnam has reached 33, with the capital Hanoi knee-deep in water, a source in the country's emergencies service said on Saturday.
Egypt has announced it will host a meeting of Arab countries on Red Sea piracy in November, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Saturday. 
Russia's foreign minister will visit Japan on November 4-5 to discuss arrangements for a bilateral presidential meeting on the sidelines of an APEC summit in Lima later in November. 
Russian warships from the Pacific and Northern Fleets will conduct exercises in the Indian Ocean later this year, a Navy spokesman said on Saturday. 
Chinese manufacturers of animal feed will face tougher inspections following the discovery of melamine-tainted eggs in China, the country's agriculture ministry said on Saturday. 
Russia will sign an agreement with the EU on participation in a peacekeeping operation in Chad and the Central African Republic on November 5 in Brussels, a Russian diplomat said on Saturday. 
Russia wants to reach a compromise with Japan on the territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands, the foreign minister told Japanese reporters on Saturday. 
Nicaragua, which joined Russia in recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, will have contact with the republics via Russia and later establish direct diplomatic relations, the foreign minister said. 
Russia's foreign minister said on Saturday that the government will do everything in its power to ensure that Russian TV channels re-appear on Ukrainian television screens. 
India has received the first space photographs from its unmanned spacecraft on a mission to the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organization said on Saturday. 



