Main news of April 11

RUSSIA

* The August conflict with Georgia demonstrated just how dangerous NATO's eastward expansion could be, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a session of the Foreign and Defense Policy Council

* Reports that Russia's 58th Army has been put on a higher combat alert are untrue, a Defense Ministry spokesman told RIA Novosti

WORLD

* Opposition protests are due to continue in Georgia on Monday, the leader of the Georgia's Path movement said at a meeting outside the country's parliament

* Moldova's Constitutional Court is to consider Communist Party leader Vladimir Voronin's request for a recount of the vote in the April 5 parliamentary elections, the court chairman said

* Moldova's Constitutional Court has postponed until Sunday a hearing on a recount of votes in the recent parliamentary election that saw victory for the Communists, the court chairman said

* An ASEAN summit in Pattaya, Thailand, has been canceled over protests in the summit press center, the Xinhua news agency said citing sources in the Chinese embassy in Thailand

* An EU delegation is due to visit Chisinau on a fact-finding mission following recent riots in the country, the Moldovan president's press service said

*  Moldova's Central Election Commission confirmed the results of the parliamentary elections, disputed by opposition groups, and have submitted them to the Constitutional Court, an election official said

* Two miners are believed to be trapped after a rock slide occurred at a coal mine in the Donetsk Region, eastern Ukraine, a mining official said

* Turkish health officials said 11 people, including three Germans tourists, have died since March 21 from drinking home-distilled alcohol

* Rescuers recovered the body of an elderly woman from the ruins of a building in L'Aquila in central Italy, bringing the death toll from Monday's devastating quake to 292, a civil protection official said

BUSINESS

* Russia's largest independent oil producer LUKoil is ready to adapt a contract to Iraq's new oil legislation paving the way for development of the West Qurna-2 oil field, the company head said

* Russian energy giant Gazprom's oil arm Gazprom Neft is interested in developing six oil and two gas deposits in Iraq, the head of the company's Middle East projects said