SPUTNIK TOP SORIES OF THE DAY

WASHINGTON, November 14 (Sputnik) -

* Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has demanded that the Palestinian mission at the League of Arab States request an urgent meeting to discuss the escalation of the conflict in Gaza, according to a statement by the Abbas administration obtained by Sputnik.

* A truce between the Palestinians and Israel may take place in the coming hours, a source in the Hamas movement told Sputnik.

* Russia hit a new post-Soviet record for oil production in October, producing on the average 11.6 million barrels per day, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said in its Monthly Oil Market Report released on Tuesday.

* Iranian oil production has decreased by 156,000 barrels per day in October, compared to the last month, reaching 3.296 million barrels per day, the OPEC report said.

* Crude oil production in October had grown by 127,000 barrels per day on September to 32.9 million barrels per day, the OPEC report said.

RUSSIA'S POSITION ON DAVOS FORUM

* Russia will not attend the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos if Switzerland does not revert decisions on the participation of Russian businessmen in the event, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.

* Anatoly Chubais, chairman of the Russian state nanotech company Rusnano, said Tuesday he would skip the World Economic Forum in Davos if Moscow boycotts it.

UKRAINE'S DISPUTE OVER CHURCH AUTOCEPHALY

* The Holy Synod of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) decided on Tuesday to suspend full communion with the Constantinople Patriarchate due to its activities in Ukraine.

* Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko did not attend a meeting with bishops of the canonical UOC-MP, chairman of the church's Synodal Information and education Department Archbishop Clement said.

* The process of providing autocephaly to the non-canonical Ukrainian church and the subsequent conflict were imposed from the outside, the UOC-MP Council of Bishops said in a statement.

* Previous agreements on Libya have not been implemented, but the peace process must continue so that "the existing knot could be finally untied," Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.

* Russia is ready to cooperate with Libya, including in the development of joint economic projects, Medvedev said.

* Russia will maintain contacts with all participants of the national reconciliation dialogue in Libya, but 90 percent depends on Libyans themselves, Medvedev said.