Main news of January 11

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The Iran Six will meet this week in New York, U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton told journalists on her way to Hawaii

* China tested a ground-based system to intercept missiles in midflight on Monday, the Xinhua news agency reported

* Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko ordered efforts on Monday to speed up work to draft a new national security concept citing global political and economic challenges

* Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko criticized on Monday fellow presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych for his refusal to take part in televised debates ahead of the January 17 elections

* Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili awarded on Monday the National Hero of Georgia title to U.S. Senator John McCain

* A court in the Georgian capital sentenced on Monday three military officials to 29, 28 and 19 years in prison for attempting to forcefully overthrow the government, a defense lawyer involved in the trial said

* Christian churches across Malaysia have come under arson attacks in the past three days, but authorities said on Monday the situation is now under control

* North Korea said on Monday it wanted talks with the United States on a peace treaty to replace the ceasefire that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War as a condition to restart nuclear disarmament negotiations

* Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic has secured an overwhelming victory in a presidential runoff in Croatia, the Central Electoral Commission announced

RUSSIA

* The Russian government will allocate 500 million rubles ($16.7 million) in 2010 on a project to build a spaceship with a nuclear engine

* Russian oil supplies are continuing to and via Belarus to Europe despite the two countries' failure to sign an agreement for 2010, Belarus's state energy firm Belneftekhim said

BUSINESS

* Russia's Reserve Fund, set up to cushion the federal budget against a fall in oil prices, decreased by 18% to 1.83 trillion rubles ($60.52 bln) in December, the Finance Ministry said

* Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz, which pays for Russian natural gas deliveries, will balance on the brink of a default in 2010, the Ukrainian president's energy security envoy said

* U.S. car giants General Motors and Ford and Japanese automaker Nissan on Monday restarted car output at their facilities in northwest Russia

* Russia's two main stock exchanges opened on Monday with their key indexes showing strong growth after the 10-day New Year break