| November 2008 |
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President Dmitry Medvedev and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro met in the Cuban capital Havana on Friday during the Russian leader's Latin American tour aimed at expanding Russia's influence in the region. 
Indian troops on Friday evening stormed a Jewish center in Mumbai which was under siege for almost two days since the city was hit by a series of terrorist attacks, local officials said. 
U.S. space shuttle Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station ending a 12-day "home improvement" mission, a NASA spokesman said Friday. 
Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Friday that the August military offensive in the breakaway region of South Ossetia was aimed at protecting ethnic Georgians. 
Russia's prime minister said Friday at a meeting with the head of a German power company that his country would fulfill all its commitments to the energy sector and has no plans to reduce or change them.
Russia will continue mine clearing operations in Serbia until 2012 as part of humanitarian aid to the country, which was heavily bombed by NATO warplanes in 1999, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Friday. 
Minsk is expecting Russia to transfer the second $1 billion installment of a Russian loan to the country in February, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said on Friday. 
Russia's Neustrashimy (Fearless) missile frigate will continue protecting commercial vessels from pirate attacks off the Somali coast for another month, a senior officer on board the ship said on Friday. 
A unique collection of 122 erotic ink drawings by the Russian artist Konstantin Somov (1869-1939) has been sold for $1.8 million at MacDougall Auctions in London, the auction house said. 
A senior Georgian opposition party figure said on Friday that President Mikheil Saakashvili and his immediate circle were preparing to flee the country, and had already started transferring money into foreign banks. 
The United States is planning to replace Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili with former parliamentary speaker Nino Burdzhanadze, Russia's NATO envoy said on Friday. 



