Main News of April 10

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*The Group of Six nations negotiating Iran’s nuclear program will meet for another round of talks in Istanbul on April 14, the Turkish foreign minister said.

*Russia criticized the Syrian authorities on Tuesday over their efforts on UN envoy Kofi Annan’s peace plan and said Damascus needed to show more decisiveness to end the violence in the Middle East country.

*Russia considers Pyongyang's decision to launch a scientific rocket to place a satellite in earth orbit as disregarding UN Security Council resolutions, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.

 

RUSSIA

*Russian State Duma deputies said on Tuesday they expect a two-way exchange with Prime Minister and president-elect Vladimir Putin and a frank account of his performance over the past four years.

*Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday called speculations about a possible NATO military base in the Russian Volga city of Ulyanovsk a “provocation.”

*A 261,000-acre national park in Russia's Far East created to protect Amur leopards began operating this week, presidential chief of staff Sergei Ivanov said.

 

BUSINESS

*Russia cannot afford to cut the nation's payroll tax from the current 30 percent, President Dmitry Medvedev said.