Main news of October 4

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Greece's Socialist opposition party PASOK won Sunday's parliamentary election in the Mediterranean country gaining 43.3% of the vote and will be able to form a one-party government, early results indicated

* The suicide or killing of former Japanese finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa, found dead in his home on Sunday, is unlikely, police said after an autopsy

* Eight U.S. soldiers were killed in an attack by the radical Islamic Taliban group in eastern Afghanistan, the press office of the NATO-led coalition forces said

* Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will inspect Iran's new uranium facility in the second half of October, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog said

* Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in North Korea on a three-day official visit on Sunday, Xinhua said

* A confidential report by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that Iran had had enough information to produce a nuclear bomb, the New York Times reported

* Rescue teams from 17 countries, including Russia, have arrived at the Indonesian island of Sumatra to help deal with the aftermath of Wednesday's quake

* Over 67% of voters in Ireland have casted their ballot in favor of the Lisbon Treaty setting out rules for decision-making in the European Union, according to official results of the country's second referendum

RUSSIA

* An A320 of Russia's flagship air carrier Aeroflot with 120 passengers on board bound from Prague to Moscow made a forced landing Sunday in Minsk, no one was injured, Aeroflot said

* The ex-head of Russia's now defunct state electricity monopoly said on Sunday that the findings by the industrial safety watchdog fully reflected technical causes of a recent disaster at the country's largest hydropower plant

BUSINESS

* The Russian and Icelandic delegations have failed to reach an agreement on a loan to Iceland but consultations will continue, the Russian finance minister said

* Russia could borrow from $2 billion to $4 billion from the World Bank next year to ease the effects of the economic crisis, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said