Main news of February 11

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Iran has taken only 10 kilograms of low-enriched uranium for additional enrichment, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report received by RIA Novosti

* U.S. President Barack Obama and the European Union's first president, Herman Van Rompuy, have congratulated Viktor Yanukovych on winning Ukraine's presidential election

* Viktor Yanukovych's opposition Party of Regions said they were winning the court battle over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's complaints of vote-rigging in Ukraine's presidential election

* A total of 110 reporters were killed in the course of their work in 2009 making the year the most lethal for journalists in the past decade, the International Press Institute said

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Thursday she doesn't believe that presidential elections winner Viktor Yanukovych will keep his pledge to raise living standards

* Iran has produced its first stock of 20%-enriched uranium, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the Iranian Fars news agency

* The Thai criminal court ordered on Thursday the release of the crew of a cargo plane that was seized with illegal weaponry from North Korea on board, a court spokesman said

* Bolivian President Evo Morales has signed a decree establishing a national space agency to oversee a satellite project scheduled to be completed by 2013, the Latin American Herald Tribune said

RUSSIA

* NATO should view Russia's new military doctrine as a signal the alliance needs to change its attitude if it wants better relations with Moscow, a senior Russian parliamentarian said

* The United States, Britain and France have confirmed their plans to participate in a May 9 parade on Moscow's Red Square, the Kremlin property chief said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during his visit to the west Siberian city of Tomsk in freezing temperatures said nuclear energy development was a national priority, in particular as an instrument for combating global warming

* Russia will develop the domestic pharmaceutical industry in order to decrease the country's dependency on foreign medicines, President Dmitry Medvedev said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the government to work out a bill easing immigration restrictions in the country and consider the cancelation of immigration quotas for high-qualified foreign specialists, the Kremlin said

SPORT

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took part in a live video linkup with members of Russia's Olympic team in Vancouver on Thursday, saying he was confident they would be successful