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RUSSIA

* Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on setting up a state committee in the country to counter illegal drugs, the Kremlin press office announced

* Two Tajik nationals were attacked by a group of unidentified youths on a street in southwest Moscow, and one died from his injuries, police said

* Police said they detained 86 soccer fans for drunk and disorderly behavior at Moscow's Luzhniki stadium during a championship match in which leaders Spartak defeated FC Moscow 3-1

* A snow cyclone in Primorye, in Russia's Far East, has caused power outages in several areas and interrupted water supplies in Vladivostok, a spokesman for the city's mayor said

* A former Russian UN official who has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison in the U.S. for money laundering said his lawyers have launched an appeal against the sentence

* Russia signed a memorandum of understanding with the World Bank, under which Moscow will contribute $20 million to the bank's malaria treatment program in Africa, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said

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* Ali Larijani has resigned as Iran's top representative in negotiations on the country's controversial nuclear program, a government spokesman announced

* Poles are set to choose between their nationalist incumbent prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and center-right pro-business challenger Donald Tusk at Sunday's parliamentary elections

* Iran has the capability to fire 11,000 rockets at enemy bases within one minute if the country is attacked, a top commander in the Revolutionary Guards Corps said

* Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus near north Turkey's Black Sea port city of Samsun, wounding two Georgian nationals