Main News of November 17

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Dozens of Russian tourists were injured in a bus accident in Thailand on Sunday, officials and media reported

* Giorgi Margvelashvili was sworn in as the new president of Georgia at an inauguration ceremony in the capital Tbilisi on Sunday afternoon

RUSSIA

* A total of 50 people were killed as a passenger jet crashed on landing in the city of Kazan in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, the Emergencies Ministry reported

* A few protesters were detained Sunday on downtown Moscow’s Red Square, according to reports from the Moscow department of the Russian Interior Ministry and media

* Authorities in St. Petersburg shut floodgates and navigation channels to fight potential flooding in the city early Sunday morning

* A plane laden with medical aid supplies from Russia landed early Sunday morning in Syria’s port city Latakia

POLITICS

* Russia’s foreign minister and the US secretary of state on Sunday discussed cooperation in the preparation for an international conference on Syria and a regular round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported