Main News of December 29

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Four people were killed when a Russian Tupolev Tu-204 medium-haul airliner overshot the runway while landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport and caught fire on Saturday, the Emergency Situations Ministry said

* Russia is not supplying the Syrian authorities with offensive weapons or any kinds of weapons that could be used against civilians, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Russian aircraft maker MiG delivered in December a batch of four MiG-29K/KUB shipborne fighters to the Indian Navy under a contract concluded in 2010, the company said

WORLD

* Iran has rejected Western media reports it is planning to close the Strait of Hormuz during six-day naval drills

* Hundreds of people gathered at the India Gate monument in central New Delhi in solidarity with relatives of a female rape victim, who died at a Singapore hospital on Friday

* Explosives and a fuse were found near a holiday residence of Cypriot President Demetris Christofias near Limassol, Cypriot police said