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RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev approved the composition of the Security Council of Russia, the Kremlin press office said

* Russia's singer Dima Bilan won the Eurovision Song Contest, beating 24 contestants to claim his country's first win in the event with his heartfelt ballad "Believe"

* A sixth Russian Emergencies Ministry plane carrying 30 tons of humanitarian aid for quake-stricken southwest China took off from an airfield near Moscow, a ministry spokesman said

* A senior police officer was killed in the Republic of Daghestan in Russia's restive North Caucasus region, a police source said

* Two people were killed after a light plane crashed in the Moscow Region, the regional emergencies center said

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* Lebanon's parliament elected army commander General Michel Suleiman as the country's president

* Iran will continue transparent cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its controversial nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said

* A child was killed and five people were wounded after a suicide bomber struck a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan, local security officials said

* Residents of Ukraine's capital voted in a poll to elect a mayor and city council, with 70 candidates running for the mayor's post