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* A court in the Saratov Region in southern Russia sanctioned the arrest of four persons suspected of involvement in the murder of regional prosecutor, Yevgeny Grigoryev, who was gunned down in a contract-style killing February 13, Russia's Investigative Committee said

* Police have detained a person suspected of involvement in the murder of a senior police officer in North Ossetia in Russia's restive North Caucasus region, a local police source said

* Russian energy giant Gazprom could become a sponsor of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, The Sunday Times reported

WORLD

* A European carrier rocket took off from French Guiana on a mission to bring supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for Russia's mission control said

* Voting started in Spain's general election, with the country's 35 million eligible voters set to decide whether to return the ruling Socialists to power

* Iran is ready to negotiate with the European Union over its controversial nuclear program, if these talks were productive, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said

* Eighteen persons were killed and over 50 injured after a bus rammed into a passenger train at a rail crossing in Argentina, the Argentine Cronica TV channel reported

* One person was killed and five others were injured after a helicopter with foreign tourists aboard crashed in south-east Tajikistan, the republic's interior ministry said

* Israel and armed Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip reached a ceasefire agreement, Israeli website Ynet said, referring to sources in the Palestinian enclave

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