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RUSSIA

* Russians voted on Sunday to elect a new president, election officials said turnout exceeded figures in the December parliamentary polls

* Four police officers and a civilian were injured in an attack on a police car in Khasavyurt in Daghestan, the southern Russian republic's emergencies official said

* The number of victims to food poisoning in an East Siberian city has grwon to 150, including 117 children, in the last three days, the Emergency Situations Ministry said

* Dmitry Medvedev won 64.92% of the vote with 20% of ballots counted in Russia's presidential polls, according to Central Election Commission data.

* President Putin has congratulated the man he publicly-backed to succeed him as Russian leader on a firm lead in Sunday's presidential elections.

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* Eight people were killed and over 130 wounded in Armenia's capital in overnight clashes between police and protesters unhappy with recent presidential election results, police said

* Israel could launch a broader offensive on the Gaza Strip to remove the radical Islamic group Hamas from control of the Palestinian enclave, the country's defense minister said

* Another 10 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip bringing the death toll in the last few days to 110 people, many of them civilians, a Palestinian health official said

* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke of the "historic ties" between Tehran and Baghdad as he began a two-day visit to Iraq