Main news of December 14

RUSSIA

* Russia plans to complete fuel deliveries to North Korea as part of a denuclearization deal, the head of the Russian delegation at six-party talks on Korea's nuclear problem said

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov left for New York to attend a Mideast Quartet meeting and a UN Security Council session on the Mideast peace process and the fight against piracy off Somalia

* Police detained over 90 people for an attempt to hold an unauthorized opposition rally in central Moscow, police said

* Imports into Russia declined 20%, year-on-year, in November amid a weaker demand prompted by the global financial crisis, Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev said

* Russia's Kseniya Sukhinova won the Miss World 2008 title at the international beauties competition in South Africa after beating 108 contestants

* Three unidentified robbers stole furs worth an estimated 2.8 million rubles ($100,000) from a firm in northeastern Moscow, a police source said

WORLD

* Iran will call on the world's oil cartel at its extraordinary meeting next week to cut oil output by further 2 million barrels per day, Iranian Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said

* The death toll in a bus accident in Egypt has risen to 51 people, the Egyptian news agency MENA reported

* Three Canadian troops from the NATO-led force were killed in a mine explosion in the Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, local TV channel Tolo said, referring to foreign military sources

* Greek rioters resumed violent protests in Athens following the killing of a 15-year-old teenager by police eight days ago, local police said