Main News of September 28

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The French government will implement austerity measures to cut the national budget deficit, aiming to slash it to 3 percent of GDP, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said

* The Syrian government said its security forces fought back a “decisive attack” by the Free Syrian Army on Syria’s second largest city, Aleppo

* Czech Health Minister Leos Heger partially lifted a hard liquor ban, allowing the sale of hard liquor produced in and before 2011, the CTK news agency reported

RUSSIA

* Google has announced it will comply if Russia's courts ban the American anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims,” a company spokesman confirmed

* German prosecutors pressed formal charges against a local couple accused of running a Russian spy network for more than 20 years, media reported

* Russia and the United States could still reach agreement on the missile defense issue but time is running out, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said

BUSINESS

* China is considering bidding in the privatization tender for Belarusian potash producer Belarusalkali, China's ambassador to Belarus Hun Jiangbei said

* Poland plans to spend $3 billion on multirole military helicopters for its armed forces in the near future, local paper Rzeczpospolita reported