Main news of November 7
00:00 08/11/2009
RUSSIA
* A Tu-142M3 reconnaissance plane from Russia's Pacific Fleet has crashed in the Tatar Strait in Russia's Far East, the Defense Ministry said
* The Russian Pacific Fleet suspended all flights of its naval aviation following the Tu-142 crash, the fleet spokesman said
* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said further sanctions against Tehran cannot be ruled out if no progress is made on Iran's nuclear issue
* A special cargo ship carrying parts of two Russian Soyuz-ST rockets left the port of St. Petersburg, heading to the Kourou space site, the Russian space agency said
* Six people died when their vehicle crashed off a bridge in north Russia, an emergency services spokesman said
WORLD
* The G20 finance ministers and central bank governors agreed to pursue anti-crisis measures to support what they described as 'uneven recovery'
* Iran will not ship out its low-enriched uranium for further processing abroad, a senior Iranian MP said
* Afghanistan accused the top UN official in the war-ravaged country of interference in its internal affairs
* Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said she saw no need for declaring a state of emergency in the country over a flu epidemic that has killed 135 people
*Slovakia will close on Sunday all border crossings with Ukraine, except for the car checkpoint in Vysne Nemecke, amid fears of spreading the A/H1N1 virus, the Slovakian interior minister said
* Ljubljana and Moscow have finalized an agreement to take the South Stream gas pipeline through Slovenia and could sign it in Moscow next week, a Slovenian paper reported
BUSINESS
* Yemen sent its first liquefied natural gas shipment (LNG), the Saba news agency reported
* Inflation in Ukraine reached 10.1% in the first nine months of the current year, the economics ministry said