| November 2008 |
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Tibetan exiles have supported the Dalai Lama's policy of seeking greater autonomy from China, rather than full independence, a senior aide to the exiled leader said on Saturday. 
Russia's energy giant Gazprom told a Russian TV channel on Saturday that the ongoing financial crisis should not be an obstacle for solving the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute. 
Ukraine marked on Saturday Freedom Day and commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Stalin-era famine, a coincidence President Viktor Yushchenko described as symbolic. 
Some 65% of Russians said they backed Moscow's plans to place short-range missiles in Russia's Kaliningrad Region, but were worried that the ties with the West would worsen following the move, an opinion poll said. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Lima, Peru on Saturday to attend a two-day summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
Armed militants threw hand grenades at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan, killing eight people and injuring over 60 others, including a bride, a local governor said on Saturday. 
Russia's largest independent oil producer LUKoil applied to several Spanish banks on Friday for a 5.2 billion euro ($6.5 billion) loan to buy a stake in Repsol YPF, the EFE agency said. 



