Main news of October 12

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

 

WORLD

 

* The death toll in the Ukrainian accident involving a train that collided with a passenger bus reached 42

 

* A traffic accident near the Polish capital of Warsaw killed 17 people and injured one, the Polish TVN24 channel said

 

* Russia will continue to push for a pan-European security treaty, President Dmitry Medvedev said after talks with his German counterpart Christian Wulff

 

* Russia should play a more active role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the Palestinian National Authority's spokesman representative said

 

* Russia expects Britain to take steps to rebuild bilateral relations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said ahead of a visit to Moscow by his British counterpart.

 

* Georgia's decision to scrap visas for residents of Russia's North Caucasus republics is yet another "propaganda move" by Tbilisi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

 

RUSSIA

 

* Over 30 people were detained at a Day of Wrath protest rally in downtown Moscow, police said

 

* The Russian government will continue removing administrative obstacles, if businessmen put an end to shadow schemes and tax evasion, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

 

* Natural gas output in Russia's Sakhalin region will rise 160 percent to 62.93 billion cubic meters by 2020, while annual oil and condensate output will grow 60 percent to 24.8 million tons, the region's natural resources and environmental protection minister said

 

* Traffic in Moscow is the city's worst ecological problem, that's why Moscow's new mayor should meet this challenge first of all, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said

 

* Police in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region arrested three militants in connection with the bombing of a market in the city of Vladikavkaz in September, the National Antiterror Committee (NAK) said