Main news of November 6

RUSSIA

* Russia and Italy signed a number of bilateral cooperation documents, including in the nuclear sphere

* Russia sees no obstacles to the signing of a new partnership and cooperation agreement with the European Union, President Dmitry Medvedev said after talks with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

* As many as 11 people were killed and 43 were injured in an explosion at a bus stop in the center of the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia

* Russia successfully launched late on Wednesday a Proton-M carrier rocket and put an SES Astra 1M satellite into orbit, the Russian space agency said

* The Russian and Chinese presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Hu Jintao, will hold two bilateral meetings before the end of this year, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said

* Russia's natural gas exports to Europe declined 8.3% to 12.6 billion cubic meters in October from a year ago as demand fell in the main consumer countries, a leading business daily reported

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev could resign next year paving the way for his predecessor and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a Russian paper said citing an unidentified Kremlin official

* A number of opposition activists, including Garry Kasparov, are set to form a new Russian democratic movement to protect the inviolability of the country's Constitution, a co-founder said

* Russian police have detained a suspect in the October murder of two Jesuit priests in central Moscow, a spokeswoman for Moscow's investigation department said

WORLD

* Israeli planes attacked a group of militants in the Gaza Strip, leaving one dead and another three wounded, a local medical official said

* A spokesman for the military wing of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, said that a truce with Israel could be maintained if observed by Israel

* The USS Mount Whitney called at Ukraine's Black Sea port of Sevastopol after a three-hour delay

* Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi said his country was considering buying Ukrainian-made weaponry for defense purposes

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's remarks concerning the possible deployment of tactical missiles near Poland are an "unfriendly act," the Polish foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, said

* Greece is willing to mediate negotiations following the conflict surrounding Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia, Greek Foreign Minister Theodora Bakoyianni said

* Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque will pay an official visit to Russia on November 8-12 to discuss the expansion of political dialogue and bilateral cooperation, a Russian diplomat said

* Ukraine could receive a $2 billion loan from the World Bank, the speaker of the country's parliament, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, said

* Google Inc. pulled out of a major advertising deal with Yahoo! Inc. after U.S. antitrust authorities threatened legal action

* Ukraine and Indonesia have signed an intergovernmental space cooperation agreement, Unian news agency said, citing Ukraine's National Space Agency

BUSINESS

* Russia's international reserves declined by $71.468 billion to $484.6 billion in October, the Central Bank said

* Russian aluminum giant RusAl plans to develop a project to produce aluminum in Venezuela, a Russian deputy prime minister said

* Russia has bought out Oman's share in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, and the deal is expected to be closed within the next two weeks, the head of the Transneft pipeline operator said

* Russian energy equipment producer Power Machines announced a net profit under International Financial Reporting Standards of $17.6 million in January-June against a $16 mln loss a year ago

* Russia's largest independent crude producer LUKoil said it had applied for a $1.8 billion refinancing loan with the national development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB)