Main news of September 25

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he does not consider insulting the comments about the 9/11 attacks he made at the UN General Assembly and called for establishing a special tribunal to investigate into the 9/11 tragedy

* Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has casted back information about secret talks between Iran and the United States on the sidelines of UN General Assembly in New York, the ISNA news agency said

* Belarus has cropped over 7 million tons of grain, which allows the country not only to cover its own demands, but also to help neighbors, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said

*China stands for peaceful regulation of disputes concerning the South China Sea, Jiang Yu, official spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said

* Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov commemorated on Saturday in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv victims of the Katyn massacre, the 1940 massacre of about 4,000 Polish officers by the Soviet secret police NKVD

*The U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Israel should extend its moratorium on settlement activity, the White House said in a statement

RUSSIA

* A suicide bomber injured at least 30 people on Friday evening during an anti-terrorist operation in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala

*One of the four militants, killed in a special operation in Makhachkala, was identified as the leader of a local terrorist sabotage group, a spokesman for the National Antiterrorist Committee said

*Moscow is ready to consider different forms of cooperation with NATO, including cooperation under the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), so to tackle the Afghan drug threat, Russian Foreign Minister said

*Russia expects from the European Union a clear answer on scrapping visas, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Rossiya 1 tv-channel

*The Russian Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft with three crew members on board successfully landed in Kazakhstan