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19:04 GMT 28.01.2008

RUSSIA

* Sergei Takoyev, the head of the presidential and government administration of Russia's North Ossetian republic in the North Caucasus, was wounded in an attack, local police said

* The first deputy governor of Primorye in Russia's Far East was wounded by an unidentified gunman in an apparent assassination attempt, local police said

* The Tverskoi District Court in Moscow sanctioned the arrest of investigative journalist Oleg Lurye, a higher court spokeswoman said

* Coast guards in Russia's northwest region of Murmansk said they had detained a Norwegian vessel in the country's commercial waters for fishing violations

* A Moscow Arbitration Appeals Court dropped a complaint filed by auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) against a court ruling that invalidated its audits of the liquidated Yukos oil company

* Russia successfully put into orbit a new Express-AM33 telecommunications satellite, the Federal Space Agency said

* An agreement regulating prices of key foodstuffs will be extended for another three months, the Russian Agriculture Ministry spokesperson said

WORLD

* The Uruguayan government declassified secret documents on intelligence agents from the National Directorate of Intelligence, an official website said

* Russia delivered the final batch of a fuel shipment to the Bushehr nuclear power plant it is building in southern Iran, the Islamic Republic's nuclear officials said

* Moscow's new envoy to NATO said Russia will maintain its moratorium on a major arms reduction treaty in Europe until NATO countries ratify its adapted version

* Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, signed an advisory agreement with Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich), the company said

* Iran's foreign minister said his country will give a "serious and logical" response to a possible new UN resolution on sanctions against Tehran over its controversial nuclear program

* Russia introduced its concept of regional security in the Persian Gulf at a conference in Bahrain's capital Manama, a deputy foreign minister said

* The Russian foreign intelligence service (SVR) said that allegations by former spy master Sergei Tretyakov recently published in a book in the U.S. were "a PR move glorifying treason"

* Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of Greece's Orthodox Church, died of cancer at his home near Athens early at the age of 69

* At least 80 people died in recent freezing weather in central Afghanistan's Ghor province, with three further cold fronts set to hit the country, local media said

* Egyptian security forces detained 3,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who tried to make their way to Cairo and other Egyptian provinces from the Sinai Peninsula, the Al-Ahram paper said

* More than 1,000 trucks are stuck in traffic queues at the Ukrainian-Polish border following a strike by Polish customs officers, Ukraine's border service said

* Israel decided to apologize to The Beatles 43 years after the British band was banned from performing in the Jewish state, said the Yedioth Ahronoth paper

BUSINESS

* The head of scandal-hit French bank Societe Generale denied media reports that a former bank trader suspected of a multi-billion fraud was acting for a Russian bank or was being made a scapegoat