WORLD
*The European union (EU) will continue to support post-Gaddafi Libya, the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said as she paid an official visit to Tripoli to open the EU diplomatic mission
*The Italian parliament on Saturday approved the economy stabilization law which clears the way for the formation of the temporary government and resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
*The Arab League suspended on Saturday Syria’s membership in the organization, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani said
*At least 15 people killed on Saturday after two explosions hit a military base to the west of Iran’s capital, Tehran, local media reported
RUSSIA
*Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt sees Russia as the world’s future IT-leader, Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Saturday
*The United Russia party will nominate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as its candidate for president at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium on November 27, a party official said on Saturday
*President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed the modernization of Russia will continue unabated, even after he leaves the Kremlin, presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Saturday
*Russia has again been again unsuccessful in its attempts to establish contact with its Phobos Grunt probe, whose engines failed to put in on course for Mars after take-off, a source in the space rocket industry told RIA Novosti on Saturday