Main News of November 22

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said he would not push for President Mikheil Sakaashvili’s impeachment, News Georgia reported.

*Russia's Foreign Ministry cautioned against Turkey's intention to deploy NATO Patriot missiles on its border with Syria.

*Czech President Vaclav Klaus neither signed nor vetoed the church restitution law, showings reservations about it but enabling the law to take effect, presidential spokesman Radim Ochvat told the CTK news agency.

 

RUSSIA

*Russian investigators refused to open a criminal investigation into allegations by a leftist political activist that he was tortured into confessing to a plot to overthrow President Vladimir Putin.

*US pop star Madonna did not break city laws on the promotion of a homosexual lifestyle among minors during a concert in St. Petersburg earlier this year, a court ruled.

 

BUSINESS

*BP, Rosneft and its main shareholder Rosneftegaz on Thursday signed a package of final and binding agreements providing for the sell-off of BP’s half-interest in TNK-BP to Rosneft, BP said.

*Indonesia’s Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday issued an airworthiness certificate to Russia’s Sukhoi Superjet-100 airplane (model RRJ-95B), Sukhoi Civilian Aircraft said.

*Russia will soon lift a ban on British meat imports imposed 16 years ago over mad cow disease, food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said.