Main news of September 7

RUSSIA

* The Bushehr nuclear power plant that Russia is building in Iran will be commissioned no earlier than the fall of 2008, a source in the Russian nuclear sector said

* Leonid Melamed, head of the Alemar Investment Financial Corporation has been appointed chief of Russia's nanotechnology corporation, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said

* Moscow denied media reports that Russian citizens died when an Antonov cargo plane crashed in Congo Friday, and reported that two Georgians and two Ukrainians were killed

WORLD

* Russia and the United States will continue looking for a solution to the ongoing dispute on U.S. plans to deploy missile defense elements in Central Europe, President Vladimir Putin said

* Hundreds of fighters belonging to the radical Hamas movement have dispersed an opposition rally in the Gaza Strip, injuring at least 15 demonstrators

* Typhoon 'Fitow' battered Japan with heavy rains and strong winds Friday, killing at least two people and injuring another fifty

* The European Union announced it would donate one million euros ($1.36 million) for urgent humanitarian aid to Nicaragua in the aftermath of Hurricane Felix

* France will deploy 200 more troops in Afghanistan, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said after his meeting with the president of Tajikistan, an ex-Soviet republic bordering on Afghanistan

* Glenn Kessler, a Washington Post journalist, has said that Russia's foreign minister regularly outmaneuvers U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in talks when it comes to securing foreign policy benefits for Russia

* South Korean Defense Minister Kim Jang-su will visit North Korea for the first time at the start of October, Seoul's Yonhap news agency reported

* A private clinic in Turkey has agreed to discharge a newborn Russian child who had been stranded in the country after his parents were unable to pay the clinic's bill, a diplomat said

* At least one person was killed and 23 injured in three separate traffic accidents in southwest Turkey, local media said

* The last body of a worker was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed multi-story building in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, bringing the death toll to 25, a spokesman for the emergency situations ministry said

BUSINESS

* Australia could supply Russia with uranium worth $1 billion as part of a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement signed between the two countries

* Russia has the backing of the United States in its bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), the economics minister, German Gref, said

* Aeroflot will receive the first deliveries of Boeing-787 and Airbus A-350 planes in 2014 as part of a contract to buy 44 new long-range liners, a spokeswoman said

* Russia plans to invest $5.7 billion in Vladivostok, in the Far East, which Moscow proposed for the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Sergei Darkin, the governor of Primorye, said

* Sberbank denied reports that it is seeking $1 billion and 17 billion rubles ($660 million) from oil company RussNeft in early loan repayments