Main news of January 23

WORLD

* Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya intends to establish a temporary residence in Mexico, but return to his home country in the future, his close supporter said

* Police in the north Brazilian state of Amapa have unearthed a cache with 450 kg of enriched uranium ore, a dangerous mineral used for nuclear arms production

* Four Afghan soldiers were killed and one wounded in a Taliban attack on the governor of the central east Wardak province, private television channel Tolo said  

* At least five people died when a suicide bombed attacked a police station in northwestern Pakistan, local television said

* Belarusian customs chief Alexander Shpilevsky threatened Russia with retaliation over its decision to impose full duty on crude pumped to Belarus

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymosenko said no matter who won the second round of presidential polls due in early February, there would be no early parliamentary elections in the country

RUSSIA

* President of the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said a website, which recently appeared on the Internet to promote his candidacy for the post of the Russian president, was a "provocation"

* Russia, which has managed to restore peace in the North Caucasus, is now to prove that social and economic situation in the region could also be improved, the country's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* Russia is expecting progress in talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the Nagorny Karabakh issue, the head of the Russian president's administration, Sergei Naryshkin, said ahead of a meeting of Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi