Main News of November 11

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Israeli military fired on Sunday the first shots at Syrian territory since 1973 in retaliation for a stray mortar shell that hit an Israeli army post on Golan Heights, an army spokeswoman told RIA Novosti

* A number of atomized groups making up the motley Syrian opposition have agreed on Sunday to form a unified coalition set to represent all opponents of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime

RUSSIA

* Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated famous double agent George Blake on his 90th birthday, the Kremlin press office said on Sunday

* The chief designer or Russia’s scandal-hit Glonass satellite navigation system, Yury Urlichich, was fired from his job, a spokeswoman for Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Sunday

SPORTS

* Wladimir Klitschko retained his heavyweight titles with a unanimous points victory over previously unbeaten Pole Mariusz Wach