BBC Monitoring News Diary for Tuesday 10 October 2006.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Main stories at 0100 gmt

NORTH KOREA/UN: Anniversary of founding of ruling Workers' Party; watching for further reaction to Pyongyang's claim to have successfully carried out underground nuclear weapon test on 9th; USA has put forward draft UN resolution in response (BBC Monitoring)

SOUTH KOREA: President Roh Moo-hyun meets former presidents and ruling and opposition party leaders to discuss Pyongyang's nuclear test; South Korean military commanders gather at Defence Ministry to assess overall security situation and discuss how to respond to North's nuclear test (South Korean sources)

RUSSIA: Funeral of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya at Moscow's Troyekurovo Cemetery at 1400 local time (Russian news agenc Itar-Tass)

GERMANY: Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Dresden (-11); holds talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Petersburg Forum, annual meeting aimed at deepening ties between Russian and German societies; talks agenda includes EU-Russia ties and Iran's nuclear programme (German news agency ddp)

UNITED KINGDOM: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets counterpart Tony Blair for UK-India trade and investment summit; agenda includes talks on cooperation in counter-terrorism and energy; joint news conference at 1130 gmt; later Singh visits Cambridge …