Main news of November 10

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will chair one of the meetings at the G20 business summit, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said

* Russia and South Korea signed a number of cooperation agreements on issues such as sea transportation, economic modernization, energy and fishing

* Russia and South Korea have agreed to cooperate in their preparations for the APEC summit in the Russian Far East and a summit on nuclear security in South Korea in 2012, South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak said

* The Russian and South Korean presidents called for the resumption of six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula

* Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev called on South Korean businesses to invest in Russia

* Russia expects to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2011, presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said

* The upper house of the Russian parliament approved a bill reducing its own powers to approve newly appointed members

* Police detained two suspects in last week's horrifying mass murder of 12 people in South Russia's Krasnodar Region, a spokesman for the Russian Investigation Department said

* The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has rejected an appeal by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. demanding the suspension of a request for proposals (RFP) for Russian Mi-17 helicopters for Afghanistan

* Russia has started in-flight tests of an Indian domestically-designed gas turbine engine for an indigenous light fighter, state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said

* Russia started the first day at an arms show in Jakarta with a contract on the delivery of munitions for Sukhoi-family fighters to Indonesia, worth $54 million, a senior defense official said

* Russia has introduced to the UN a draft resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism and the desecration of World War II monuments

* Russia and Britain will resume in the near future consultations on the easing of visa regulations for some groups of citizens, which have been staled for several years, the head of the economic department of the Russian Embassy in London said

* Moscow and Warsaw plan to sign a new transit contract to supply 28 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per annum through the Polish stretch of the Yamal-Europe pipeline from 2020 to 2045, the Russian government said

* Two suspects have been detained in Moscow for smuggling two Indonesian transsexuals into Russia and forcing them into prostitution, the Russian Investigative Committee said

* A St. Petersburg palace that once belonged to Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich of Russia will be put up for auction with the initial price of 700 million rubles ($22.7 million), the St. Petersburg Property Fund said on its website

* A woman in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg is being investigated for illegally keeping an Amur tiger, one of Russia's most endangered species, local police said

WORLD

* NATO expects to systemize security threats of its missile defense during the NATO-Russia summit in Lisbon, NATO spokesman James Appathurai said

* Iran is set to test-fire a domestically-designed air defense system similar to the Russian S-300 after Russia refused to fulfill a delivery contract, the IRNA news agency said

* Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in coma for nearly five years, is expected to be transferred to his home and cared for by his family, Israeli media said

* Russia and South Korea signed a number of cooperation agreements on issues such as sea transportation, economic modernization, energy and fishing

* Russia and South Korea have agreed to cooperate in their preparations for the APEC summit in the Russian Far East and a summit on nuclear security in South Korea in 2012, South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak said

* The Russian and South Korean presidents called for the resumption of six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula

* Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev called on South Korean businesses to invest in Russia

* The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has rejected an appeal by Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. demanding the suspension of a request for proposals (RFP) for Russian Mi-17 helicopters for Afghanistan

* Moscow and Warsaw plan to sign a new transit contract to supply 28 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per annum through the Polish stretch of the Yamal-Europe pipeline from 2020 to 2045, the Russian government said

* The Venezuelan parliament has ratified an agreement with Russia on nuclear cooperation, which includes the construction of a nuclear plant in Venezuela, local media reported

* The Palestinian Authority called on the international community to recognize a Palestinian state with the capital in East Jerusalem after Israel announced new settlement construction plans in the occupied West Bank

* The Ukrainian government has assured European states of its reliability as a transit country for Russian gas, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said

* China is interested in developing Russian language as a school subject, Russia's deputy Education Minister said

BUSINESS

* Russian gas monopoly Gazprom may increase its gas deliveries to South Korea to at least 10 billion cubic meters a year starting in 2017, with talks on the issue to begin in December, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said

* Russia's Federal Grid Company (FGC UES) and South Korea's Hyundai will sign a contract on the construction of an electric transformer plant in Russia's Far East, Primorye territory governor Sergei Darkin said