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RUSSIA

* Russia's prime minister said on Wednesday that energy giant Gazprom would waive the $2 billion fine it is entitled to demand from Ukraine for failure to buy the contracted volume of natural gas

* Cuban leader Raul Castro reiterated on Wednesday his country's willingness for a comprehensive dialog with the United States, but said the country's internal affairs were off-limits

* Russia is ready to work to renew relations with Ukraine, especially bilateral economic ties, with the expectation that mutual interests will be served, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov blasted state prosecutors and a new case against former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky at hearings

* Russian warships will continue patrolling pirate-infested waters off the Somali coast to ensure the safety of commercial shipping in the area, Russia's defense minister said

* Police Maj.-Gen. Alexander Ivanov has been appointed acting Moscow police chief, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry said

* Russia's Admiral Panteleyev missile destroyer has detained a boat carrying 29 suspected pirates off the Somali coast, the Russian Defense Ministry said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved a law that could see minors effectively barred from leaving their homes without being accompanied by an adult after 10:00 p.m., the Kremlin said

* Three people have been charged with planning to murder an academy rector, an investigation spokesman said on Wednesday as a complex and at times bizarre case neared its conclusion

WORLD

* Estonia and Finland plan to purchase 14 medium-range Ground Master 403 radar systems from the French company Thales Raytheon Systems, Estonia's Defense Ministry announced

* Georgia's opposition leaders said on Wednesday that they are willing to engage in dialogue with the leadership on the condition that President Mikheil Saakashvili agrees to resign

* At least 41 people were killed and 68 wounded on Wednesday in three car bomb blasts in a market area of eastern Baghdad, police said

* Russia is concerned over the rising tensions between the Serb and Albanian population in Kosovo, the Foreign Ministry said

* Russia has no plans to increase its military presence in the Arctic or to deploy weapons in the region, the Russian foreign minister said

* Britain confirmed three new instances of swine flu on Wednesday, involving two adults in Birmingham and London and a 12-year-old girl from the southwestern resort of Torbay

* A 23-month-old child in Texas has died from the swine flu virus, becoming the first fatality from the virus outside Mexico, U.S. health authorities said

* Three of seven suspected cases of swine flue infection have been confirmed among a group of Germans who recently returned from Mexico, the country's disease control authority said

* Ukraine's prime minister said on Wednesday a gas supply problem with Russia had been resolved and thanked Moscow for its understanding over Kiev's importing less natural gas than contracted

* Moldova has canceled plans to participate in NATO-led military exercises in Georgia in May, the Moldpres state news agency reported

* North Korea said on Wednesday it would conduct further nuclear tests and rocket launches if the UN Security Council did not apologize for its recent criticism of Pyongyang, South Korea's Yonhap said

BUSINESS

* Russia could pay Ukraine in advance for the transit of Russian gas to enable Ukraine's Naftogaz to pay for Russian gas supplies, a source in the Russian delegation said

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