Main news of November 7

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Airlines in the United Arab Emirates suspended carrying cargo from Yemen due to security reasons

* Azerbaijanis went to the polls to vote in a general election seen to consolidate the power of President Ilham Aliyev

* A total of 501 cholera deaths were registered in Haiti, the country's health ministry reported

RUSSIA

* Russian journalists called for the country's government to investigate into the attack on Russian daily Kommersant's political correspondent Oleg Kashin

* About 4,000 members and supporters of Russia's Communist Party gathered in downtown Moscow to celebrate the 83rd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tested his capacities as a Formula 1 pilot, driving a racing car for several hours at a speed of 240 km/ h (149 miles per hour) on a special track in the Leningrad Region in Russia's northwest

DEFENSE

* The corvette Ternopol of the Ukrainian Navy has sailed off from the Black Sea port of Sevastopol to join NATO's Active Endeavour mission