| December 2008 |
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Iran will call on the world's oil cartel at its extraordinary meeting next week to cut oil output by further 2 million barrels per day, Iranian Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said on Sunday. 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov left for New York on Sunday to attend a Mideast Quartet meeting and a UN Security Council session on the Mideast peace process and fight against piracy off Somalia. 
At least 41 people have been killed and another 12 injured after a bus plunged into an irrigation canal in Egypt, the Egyptian news agency MENA reported on Sunday. 
Imports into Russia declined 20%, year-on-year, in November amid a weaker demand prompted by the global financial crisis, Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev said. 
Russia plans to complete fuel deliveries to North Korea as part of a denuclearization deal, the head of the Russian delegation at six-party talks on Korea's nuclear problem said on Sunday. 
Greek rioters resumed violent protests in Athens following the killing of a 15-year-old teenager by police eight days ago, local police said on Sunday. 
Russia's Kseniya Sukhinova has won the Miss World 2008 title at the international beauties competition in South Africa after beating 108 contestants. 



