* Russia commemorated all 118 crewmembers who died after the Kursk submarine sank following an onboard torpedo explosion in the Barents Sea seven years ago
* One person died and two others were injured in an accident at an oil refinery in Tomsk in West Siberia, the regional emergencies center said
* Unidentified persons stole 7.8 million rubles (about $305,000) from the office of a leading travel agency in Moscow, a police source said
* The Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East is emitting ash to the height of 6,000 meters (20,000 feet), the local geophysics service said
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* At least eleven passengers have died and 40 others have received severe burns after a high voltage wire fell on their bus in northern India, the Press Trust of India news agency said
* The talks on the status of the Serbian province of Kosovo will be direct and exclude any pre-set options, Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic said after a meeting with a troika of envoys from the European Union, Russia and the United States who are on a three-day visit to Belgrade and Pristina to encourage a compromise between Serbia and its secessionist Albanian-dominated province
