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At least five police officers were killed and up to 19 were wounded in a blast near a traffic police post in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan

The International News Safety Institute (INSI) said a total of 132 journalists and media support staff died worldwide covering the news in 2009

The death toll in a Tuesday’s fire at the Lisheng Coal Mine in central China's Hunan Province reaches 25, China Daily said

A false bomb threat forced an emergency evacuation of 409 passengers on board a Russian train in a Belarusian city of Orsha, local emergencies services said.

An unnamed Russian company is close to buying control of one of Ukraine's largest steel groups, Industrial Union of Donbass, The Financial Times reported

Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a new gas pipeline link to the Islamic Republic

Yemeni security forces arrested three suspected al-Qaeda militants who were wounded in a raid on Monday, the Arabic satellite news channel Al Arabiya reported

Ukrainian national energy company Naftogaz has paid Gazprom in full for Russian gas deliveries in December, the company's press secretary said

The UN special envoy to Afghanistan proposed to postpone the country's parliamentary elections scheduled for May in order to assure security during the polls and prevent fraud.

 

A Greek prosecutor ordered the arrest of two Russian sailors over a suspected cigarette smuggling on board a detained Togo-flagged ship, a Greek coast guard spokeswoman said.

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