Main news of November 2

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout has been found guilty on all counts by a jury in the Federal District Court of New York.

* Italy became the first EU country to resume commercial flights to Libya after eight months of a NATO-backed no-fly zone, the Italian Foreign Ministry said.

* The Russian Progress M-13M cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Russia’s Mission Control said.

* London High Court rejected an appeal by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden.

* The Russian Foreign Ministry urged Israel to refrain from more housing construction in the occupied West Bank pending a final agreement on the status of the Palestinian territories.

 

RUSSIA

 

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Nice on Wednesday for the G20 summit to be held in the nearby French city of Cannes.

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited a Kaliningrad maternity center where one of the babies contending for designation as the seven-billionth inhabitant of the planet was born.

* Anna Chapman, a former Russian spy who has engaged in journalism since being deported from the United States last year, is suspected of plagiarizing a column she wrote for a Russian newspaper.

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