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The Russian leasing company Ilyushin Finance and Venezuela's export and import company VEXIMCA C.A. signed a memorandum on the delivery of two Russian Il-96-300 passenger airliners on Thursday, Ilyushin said. 
The Russian prime minister told his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday that Kiev must pay off its natural gas debt to Russia before a 2009 supply contract can be signed. 
The upper house of the Czech parliament voted on Thursday in favor of the deployment of a U.S. missile tracking radar in the country. 
The terrorist groups who attacked the Indian city of Mumbai are closely linked to al-Qaeda, a high-ranking Russian secret service source said Thursday. 
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog urged Syria on Thursday to show maximum transparency to ease international concerns over its suspected nuclear weapons program. 
Russia and Venezuela have signed a nuclear energy cooperation agreement, the Russian state nuclear corporation said on Thursday. 
President Lech Kaczynski's personal security chief has been sacked after a shooting near the Polish and Georgian leaders' convoy on Georgia's border with breakaway South Ossetia, Polish media reported on Thursday. 
Interior and justice ministers from the 27 EU member states formally approved at a meeting on Thursday Switzerland's accession to the Schengen passport-free zone from December 12. 
NATO member countries should invite Tbilisi to join the alliance at their upcoming meeting in Brussels, the Georgian Euro-Atlantic integration minister said on Thursday. 
Dozens of hostages are still being held at a luxury hotel and a Jewish center in Mumbai, following a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in India's financial capital that left over 100 people dead. 
Geneva will host the next round of talks on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization in January, Russia's top negotiator said on Thursday. 
The head of a Ukrainian pro-presidential party said on Thursday he suspected the premier of conspiracy to set up a rival coalition after she called on the country's president to revive the democratic alliance. 
A task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet will leave its main base in Vladivostok on December 9 to take part in joint naval drills with the Indian navy in the Indian Ocean, a fleet official said on Thursday. 
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said on Thursday it would strengthen its troop numbers along its borders with all foreign states, rather than with Russia alone. 
Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz is holding negotiations with Gazprom on higher natural gas transit rates for the Russian energy giant in 2009, the Kommersant-Ukraine paper said on Thursday. 
China has called off a December 1 summit with the EU to protest against a planned meeting between the French president and Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.




