Main news of October 22

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

* Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud died at age 83 in a New York hospital after a long illness with intestinal cancer, Saudi Arabia's official news agency SPA said

* In case of war between Pakistan and the U.S., or any other country, Kabul will support Islamabad, Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai said

* The German government is discussing a possibility to ban entry for Ukrainian officials involved in a trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, said Ambassador of Germany to Ukraine, Hans-Juergen Gaymzet

* Russia's gas giant Gazprom believes it "unreasonable" to lower the cost of gas transiting Ukraine to its cost value, Gazprom's Vice-Deputy Valery Golubyev said

* Special Forces in Germany have detained an alleged Russian husband-wife spy team in the cities of Marburg and Balingen, Deutsche Welle reported

* Russia has completed an initial "undesirables list" of individuals who will be refused entry into the country in response to the United States' so-called Magnitsky List, which blacklists Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky earlier in the year to entering the United States, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has received the Jose Marti award, the highest state award in Cuba, during his official visit to Havana, an official statement said

* A former doctor of ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has fled the country to avoid persecution over his recent remarks about Chavez's health, Mexican media have reported