Main news of September 26

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu called on Jewish settlers and political parties to restrain from acts of provocation amid the expiration of the moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank

*PNA leader Mahmoud Abbas will decide the fate of the Arab-Israeli direct peace talks after consultations with the League of Arab States and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in case Israel resumes its settlement activities

*Thai Prime Minister said that the case of alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Boutwas in the courts but he would have to make the final decision

*A dangerous Tajik criminal, who broke out of state prison together with other 24 convicts on August 23, was killed during a special operation, interior ministry Chief of Staff Tahir Normatov said

*At least two people were killed and another 17 injured in an apparently domestic gas explosion in the Schaerbeek community in Brussels, local authorities said

*China may face difficulties in winter in meeting its requirements for natural gas, China's National Reform and Development Commission said in its report

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived to the city of Dalian, beginning his official visit to China

*Two NATO servicemen were killed in a bomb blast in south Afghanistan, the military alliance said

*Russian-Swiss joint venture Wintercroft Capital has signed a contract with the authorities of the Maysan province in southeast Iraq on building two thermal power plants with total capacity of 1,150 MW, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported

*At least eleven people were killed and another thirty injured after a bus carrying Polish tourists crashed in Germany, the NTV channel reported

RUSSIA

*One policeman was killed and another may have been injured in a militant attack on a police post in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, a spokesman for the local investigative committee said

*Russian Children's Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov will get home Russian boy who was abandoned by his adoptive family in the Dominican Republic, the ombudsman's aide saiD

*Russia's second largest oil producer LUKoil may use an option to buy back 11.61% of its shares from U.S. major ConocoPhilips

*Moscow's Mayor Yury Luzhkov who has recently come under attack by Russia's state-run media, on Sunday returned from his Austrian vacation, the Ekho Moskvy radio station said

*Only the best candidates who have passed three-stage selection tests will become policemen, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev told the Russian First TV channel

*Two people died and one person was injured after a helicopter crashed in a mountainous area in south Russia, the regional emergencies center said