Main news of February 10

RUSSIA

* Human error was behind last September's crash of a Boeing passenger plane near the Russian Urals city of Perm, which killed all 88 people on board, the International Aviation Committee (IAC) said

* Chechen investigators brought murder and abduction charges against Yury Budanov, an ex-Russian army colonel recently released on parole after serving time for the murder of an 18-year-old Chechen gir

* The number of officially unemployed Russians stood at 1,735,000 million as of February 3, a 90,000 increase in the space of seven days, the Ministry of Health and Social Development said

WORLD

* U.S. President Barack Obama called for joint nuclear non-proliferation efforts led by Russia and the United States

* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated Tehran's readiness for dialogue with Washington under conditions of mutual respect

* Moscow is ready to hold talks with the new U.S. administration on cuts in strategic offensive weapons, Russia's foreign minister said

* Italian woman Eluana Englaro, whose case sparked a nationwide debate in Italy about the right to die, passed away late on Monday after 17 years in an irreversible coma, the ANSA news agency said

* Some 55 police officers are investigating the causes and consequences of unprecedented bushfires that have already killed 173 people in southern Australia, the local media said

BUSINESS

* Dmitry Malyshev, an advisor to Gazprom Neft's CEO, was elected the chairman of the board of Serbia's state-owned Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS), the Russian company said