WORLD
*At least six people were killed after a suicide bomber struck outside the headquarters of the NATO-led international coalition (ISAF) in Kabul on Saturday, al Jazeera television reported.
*Hundreds of people gathered in central Kiev on Saturday to show support for an independent cable TV channel that claims it is being censored after several operators suspended its broadcasts.
RUSSIA
* Russia and Japan signed a string of bilateral agreements on Saturday, including a ban on crab poaching in the Sea of Okhotsk and a deal to construct a timber processing factory in Siberia.
* A woman was killed and four people were injured when a roof of a district hospital partially collapsed on Saturday in Slavinsk on Kuban town of Krasondar region, a spokesperson of local emergencies said.