Main News of October 8

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* China will continue patrolling the waters near the Diaoyu Islands, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said

* The Iranian Navy has reiterated plans to extend its presence in international waters, including the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, south of the Indian Ocean and the South Pole, Press TV reported

* Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the Georgian Dream coalition that won October 1 parliamentary elections, named his candidates to the key posts in a new Georgian government

RUSSIA

* Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov said he had been summoned by investigators over allegations aired on federal television that he had conspired to launch a violent revolution

*A miner injured in a coal mine collapse in South Russia’s Rostov Region has died in hospital, the local emergencies department said

BUSINESS

* Iraq needs Russian assistance in its military and defense sectors, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stressed

* The World Bank has lowered its forecast for Russia’s 2012 GDP growth to 3.5 percent from the previously projected 3.8 percent, the bank said in a report