Main news of January 2

RUSSIA

* Seven Russian tourists were injured in a road accident in the popular Mediterranean Sea resort of Kemer in Turkey, the country's Hurriyet daily said

* Over 700 Russian hajj pilgrims stuck in Turkey's Trabzon have been delivered home, with another 59 Russians still waiting for a ferry, Russia's Consul General in Trabzon said

WORLD

* Pakistan's Central Election Commission has postponed until February 18 parliamentary elections previously due on January 8 following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto

* Progress has been reported in the investigation into the murder of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, local media said referring to the country's police spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema

* At least seven Palestinian militants have been killed in Israeli air attacks in eastern Gaza and in the center of the Palestinian enclave, home to 1.5 million, local doctors said

* Ukraine's newly elected Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko ordered to set up a commission to check the financial activity of the country's gas monopoly Naftogaz