Main news of December 5

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

Russia:

* Two engines of a Dagestan-bound Tupolev-154 plane that crashed on Saturday at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, killing two and injuring over 80 people turned off at a height of about 9 kilometers, when one continued to function until landing after a period of unstable operation, the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said

* Five passengers from a Dagestan-bound Tupolev-154 plane that crashed at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, killing two and injuring over 80 people, are in grave condition, Russia's Health Ministry said

* A reserve plane with 41 passengers from a Tupolev-154 jet, which crashed at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, flew to the jet's destination point in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a spokesman for the Russian aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said

* The intercontinental ballistic missile RS 12M Topol, launched from the landfill Kapustin Yar in the Russia's Astrakhan region, successfully hit the target at the test site in Kazakhstan, Russian Defense Ministry press-secretary said on the Russia's Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) Col. Vadim Koval said

* The DM-3 booster with three Glonass-M satellites fell into the Pacific Ocean in 1500 kilometers northwest of Honolulu, a source in the aerospace industry said

* A total of six militants, including their leader, were killed in a special operation in Russia's volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, spokesman for the National Antiterrorist Committee said

* The Urals city of Perm, where over 150 people died in a fire in a nightclub last December, held commemorative events to mark a year anniversary of the accident

 

World:

* Moldovan Communists and Democrats have created a center-left parliamentary majority of 57 votes to elect the parliament's governing bodies and the country's government, Moldovan Communist leader Vladimir Voronin said

* British Member of Parliament Mike Hancock denied his Russian assistant, who is facing deportation, is a spy, British media said

* Israeli firefighters said that had finally took under control a deadly wildfire that killed at least 40 people and forcing some 15,000 to leave their homes, local media reported

* Russian planes sent by Russia's Emergencies Ministry have dropped over 500 tons of water to extinguish deadly fires raging near Haifa in Israel, the ministry said

* The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton welcomed the International Atomic Energy Organization's (IAEA) resolution establishing a low enriched uranium (LEU) bank under the agency's auspices

* The Egyptian Tourism Ministry closed all beaches in the resort of Sharm el Sheikh after another deadly shark attack on a tourist, Egyptian media said