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WORLD

*Yoko Ono, widow of the Beatles star John Lennon, is set to give a peace prize in the couple's name to the Russian female punk band Pussy Riot on Friday, rights group Amnesty International said.

*An inquest into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is set to open in 2013, the case’s presiding judge, Sir Robert Owen, said at a preliminary hearing.

*Georgia’s top police official, Interior Minister Bachana Akhalaia, has resigned, the ministry said on its website.

 

RUSSIA

*Prosecutors in several Russian regions have asked internet service providers to block access to an anti-Islamic film that has sparked riots across the Islamic world.

*Moscow insists that the United States allows Russia's children rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov to visit a U.S. ranch where troubled adoptees from Russia have been sent, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

*The Russian Government cannot rule out changes will be required in the funding system for the pensions system as part of the a future reform of the system, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

 

BUSINESS

*British oil major BP is close to signing a share-swap deal with Rosneft to become a core shareholder in Russia’s largest state-controlled oil firm, Kommersant business daily reported.

 

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