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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




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