* Yulia Tymoshenko's eponymous bloc (BYT) and the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc in the Ukrainian parliament signed an opposition merger accord
* Opposition leaders in the Ukrainian parliament sent a letter to President Yushchenko urging him to restore the constitutional order in the country
* At least two members of an illegal militant group have been killed in a special police operation in the North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, a local FSB source said
* Heat supply to 188 houses in the eastern Moscow Region left without central heating after an accident on a heat pipeline has been restored, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said
* Two Russian women were killed Saturday morning while vacationing at a popular Thai resort of Pattaya, a Thai news agency said
