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15:58 GMT 27.01.2008

RUSSIA

* Russia's central election commission officially barred Kremlin opponent Mikhail Kasyanov from participating in the March 2 presidential elections, after invalidating 13.38% of signatures collected in the ex-premier's favor

* One policeman was killed in a shootout with militants in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, a source in local law-enforcement bodies said

WORLD

* Indonesia's former dictator Suharto who ruled the country for 32 years died following multiple organ failure, doctors said

* Israel said it would resume fuel supplies to Gaza halted last week to counter rocket attacks from the enclave

* Taliban militants denied their involvement in the kidnapping of a U.S. female citizen in Afghanistan, Afghan TV channel Tolo said

* At least nine people were killed and dozens of others injured after a passenger train derailed in central Turkey, local media reported

* Eight people were killed and seven others injured after a three-storey building collapsed in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, local police said

* Six young people were run over and killed by a passenger train while crossing the rail tracks on their way home from a night club in Ukraine, the emergencies ministry said