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RUSSIA

* Six people died and two others were injured when an artillery shell exploded near Nazran, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, an interior ministry source said

* Soviet and Russian pop icon Alla Pugachyova has announced her plans to retire after a final tour of Russia and the former U.S.S.R.

* Russia's Finance Ministry has imposed restrictions on the use of the country's Reserve Fund, permitting only investments in debt instruments of foreign states and international financial institutions, the ministry said

* A gambling association in southern Russia has asked for a delay to the opening of a gambling zone in the region, which will replace city casinos, saying the designated area needs another three years of development

* At least six people were killed and one person is still missing after a gas blast occurred in Russia's Far Eastern Primorye Territory, a spokesman for the local emergencies service said

WORLD

* The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Thursday ordered Russia to pay 37,000 euros ($46,450) in connection with the murder of an ethnic Chechen in 2000

* Russia's Foreign Ministry welcomed on Thursday NATO's willingness to resume cooperation, but said a decision to restart the Russia-NATO Council can only be made on a joint basis

* The Ukrainian security service said on Thursday it had stopped a probe into the natural gas dealings of energy company Naftogaz, following a court ruling

* North Korea cannot guarantee the safety of South Korean civilian aircraft during joint March 9-20 U.S.-South Korean military exercises, Pyongyang said

* The Swiss embassy in Georgia began on Thursday accepting applications for Russian entry visas from Georgian nationals

* Israeli police shot dead on Thursday in Jerusalem the driver of a construction vehicle who had slammed into a police car and an empty bus, a police spokesman said

* Washington has informed Kyrgyz officials of its readiness to start withdrawing its military contingent from the Manas airbase, the Kyrgyz foreign minister said

* A two-year-old Egyptian boy has been diagnosed with bird flu, bringing the country's official bird flu total to 57, a spokesman for the ministry said

* Italy has ratified Protocol 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights that abolishes the death penalty even in times of war, an Italian news agency reported

* Ukraine's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to set up a commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding yesterday's raid of national energy company Naftogaz by masked Security Service officers

* At least two Palestinian militants were killed and another one wounded on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, local radio said citing the Israeli military

* A committee at Russia's space training center, Star City, announced the lineup for the crew of the 19th Expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), a RIA Novosti correspondent said

* The U.S. space agency NASA has tentatively moved the launch date of shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) to March 11

BUSINESS

* Russian energy giant Gazprom said Thursday that it had received payment in full from Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz for natural gas supplied in February

* Russia's leading carmaker AvtoVAZ said on Thursday it had restarted its assembly line after a halt on Wednesday due to problems with auto parts supplies

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