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19:17 GMT 13.02.2008

RUSSIA

* Russia's Air Force announced the launch of a tactical exercise involving long-range aviation in "northern latitudes" to rehearse interoperability in air patrol missions

* Russia and the European Union failed to overcome differences on the status of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo at talks on Wednesday, Russia's foreign minister said

* Russia will deliver 12 Su-MKM fighters to Malaysia before the end of 2008, a spokesman for the Sukhoi aircraft manufacturer said

* Private Roman Rudakov, a victim of hazing within the Russian Armed Forces, died in the Burdenko military hospital in Moscow, a spokesman for the hospital said

* An intermediary company will be retained to supply Central Asian natural gas to Ukraine, Gazprom board chairman Dmitry Medvedev said

WORLD

* Georgian opposition leader Badri Patarkatsishvili, accused by Georgian authorities of attempting to instigate a coup during protests in the South Caucasus country last year, died in London

* Police in Britain said the death of Georgian billionaire and opposition leader Badri Patarkatsishvili was not linked to radioactive poisoning

* Hezbollah blamed Israel's secret service for the death of Imad Mughniyeh, one the Lebanese radical group's top commanders, implicated in several attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets

* Serbia's prime minister called on Kosovo Serbs not to leave their homes in the likely event that the predominantly Albanian province declares its independence in the coming days

* Ukraine is ready to adopt laws to prevent NATO military bases from being deployed on its territory in the event of the country joining the military alliance, Ukraine's President Viktor Yuschenko said

* Democrat candidate Barack Obama swept to victory in three primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, edging past rival Hillary Clinton in the nomination contest

* China's worst snowstorms in 50 years have killed a total of 107 people in the past month, the country's Xinhua news agency said

* Indonesia's health ministry confirmed that a 14 year-old girl from west Jakarta has contracted bird flu, the nation's 127th case of the disease, the national ANTARA news agency said

* A man surrendered after holding a group of children and their teachers hostage at a day-care centre in southern Italy

* Iran is acting in line with international law in its development of missile technologies, but Russia does not approve of its work, the Russian foreign minister said

BUSINESS

* Russian and Indian companies plan to invest around $8 billion in joint projects, Elvira Nabiullina, Russia's economics minister, said

* Russian energy giant Gazprom said it had raised its stake in Belarus's natural gas pipeline operator Beltransgaz to 25%, in line with previously reached accords

* Kyrgyzstan expects Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom to invest some $300 million in prospecting in the Central Asian country by 2012, the Kyrgyz prime minister said