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19:04 GMT 14.03.2008

RUSSIA

* Russia will start deliveries of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier fighters to India for the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier in May, the chief of the Indian Navy Staff said

* Six militants and one soldier were killed in an operation in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, the local Interior Ministry said

* The State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, ratified a maritime border treaty with Norway

* The Russian Embassy in Cambodia confirmed that a Russian businessman accused of the sexual abuse of underage girls had been sentenced to 13 years in jail, but said his lawyer planned to appeal

WORLD

* Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the UN Security Council of attempting to influence Friday's general election by imposing sanctions on the country, but said the attempt would fail

* Eight civilians were killed and at least 35 wounded as a suicide bomber blew up a car rigged with explosives in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a military official said

* The Thai Foreign Ministry has received an official request from the United States for the extradition of suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in jail in Thailand, the suspect's lawyer said

* Serbia's parliamentary speaker Oliver Dulic said that ratification of a January gas deal with Russia to build a pipeline through Serbia has been affected by the recent dismissal of the parliament

* Georgia's parliament called the lifting of economic sanctions by Russia from the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia an open attempt to infringe upon Georgia's territorial integrity

* Cars and shops were set on fire in the center of the Tibetan regional capital Lhasa, as the largest-civil protests in two decades continued, the Xinhua news agency reported

* Serbian President and leader of the Democratic Party Boris Tadic vowed to bar the current acting prime minister from the post of PM in the event of a Democratic Party victory at the May 11 early elections

* Two astronauts from the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour conducted the first spacewalk of their current mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said

* Hunger strikers protesting in front of Georgia's parliament refused to resume negotiations with the government until their demands, including new presidential elections, are met

* Galaxy AIR FCZ, a UAE air freight company, has been ordered to pay Belarusian airline Transaviaexport over $1 million for damage caused to a cargo plane in war-torn Somalia in March 2007

BUSINESS

* Gazprom's CEO Alexei Miller said the average price for natural gas for Europe in 2008 could reach $400 per 1,000 cubic meters, 13% more than previously expected

* Evraz Group, whose shareholders include Roman Abramovich, is set to purchase IPSCO Canada's plate and pipe business for a cost of $4 billion, Russia's largest steel producer said

* Moscow's Salut aircraft component maker and Ukraine's only producer of plane engines came up with a proposal to develop a new engine for Russia's ambitious MS-21 passenger airliner

* Russia's state anti-monopoly service said it will approve the acquisition of Russia's Baltika brewery by Carlsberg, which will increase its current 50% stake to 100%