Main news of November 9

RUSSIA

* Twenty people died on board a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean and 21 others were taken to the hospital, the Navy said

* Moscow hopes for a more constructive dialog with the administration of Barack Obama about the deployment of U.S. missile defense shield elements in Central Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* A senior police officer was gunned down in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia's restive North Caucasus Region, the republic's interior ministry said

* North Korean border guards detained a Russian ship in the Sea of Japan with 14 crewmembers on its board, the Russian Far Eastern regional rescue and coordination centre said

WORLD

* The Quartet of Middle East peace mediators supported Russia's proposal to hold a conference on the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Moscow next year, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said

* One Italian soldier was killed and four others were seriously injured in a suicide bomb attack in the western Afghan province of Herat, local security officials said

* Two former British military officers are expected to provide crucial evidence that the conflict in South Ossetia was unleashed by Georgia, The Sunday Times said

* At least three people died and eight others were missing in the rubble after an apartment building collapsed in southern Albania, the Greek radio Sky reported