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* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reaffirmed the government's pledge to honor all social commitments next year and in the medium-term perspective, despite the ongoing global financial crisis

* The number of people injured in an explosion at a southern Moscow market on Saturday has risen to 13, with 12 of them in hospital, the Moscow police said

* Police dispersed over a hundred of protesters during an unauthorized protest in the Russian Far East against the government's decision to raise import duties on used foreign cars

* Russia's WBA Heavyweight World Champion Nikolai Valuev won a majority points decision to defeat four-time champion Evander Holyfield and retain his WBA champion title

WORLD

* Russia started the supplies of parts for S-300 air defense systems to Iran, Esmaeil Kosari, deputy chairman of the Iranian parliamentary commission on national security and foreign policy, said

* An Ariane 5 carrier rocket, launched from the Kourou space center in French Guiana on Saturday, orbited two satellites for Europe's telecoms operator Eutelsat, the European space concern Arianspace SA said

* Palestinian militants have launched several dozen rockets against southern Israel since the end of a six-month truce with the Jewish state on Friday, Israeli defense officials said

* Hundreds of Greek youths staged fresh protests in Athens, clashing with police amid Greece's worst riots in decades sparked by the recent killing of a teenager by police, local TV channels reported

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