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16:15 GMT 22.03.2008

RUSSIA

* A 35-year-old Vietnamese woman who worked at a Moscow market has been stabbed to death in an apparent race-hate killing, police said

* A fire that broke out in a Kruzhka beer restaurant near the Lokomotiv soccer stadium in northeast Moscow has been extinguished, no one has been injured, emergency services said

* Russian Su-25 strike aircraft will take part in a parade on Moscow's Red Square on VE Day, May 9, despite a ban on their flights after a recent crash, a deputy Air Force commander said

* Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Maria Sharapova 6-3 5-7 6-2 in the Pacific Life Open semi-final, ending her compatriot's 18-match winning streak

* The two journalists from south Russia's republic of Daghestan murdered on Friday were on a list of names that reporters of a local paper were banned from mentioning, a former editor said

* The leader of Russia's Communist Party, who came a distant second in the presidential election, has called for a special commission to be set up to investigate ballot rigging in the March 2 vote

* A policeman fatally shot a man who tried to grab the officer's Kalashnikov automatic rifle on a road in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, local police said

* Five people died after a minivan collided head-on with a truck on Friday evening in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk, near Nizhny Novgorod, local traffic police said

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* Russia's Foreign Ministry voiced concern over clashes between militant groups in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, and called on the country to prevent all-out conflict

* Taiwan's opposition candidate, who favors closer economic ties and eventual reunification with China, won a clear victory in Saturday's presidential election according to a partial vote count

* A spokesman for the European Union's executive body said the EU hopes Russia will conduct a full and swift investigation into Friday's murders of two journalists