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RUSSIA

* Five people were detained in the Russian republic of North Ossetia in connection with the murder of the Vladikavkaz mayor, Vitaly Karayev, a law enforcement source said

* Russia's National Geological Prospecting Company announced the discovery of a large gold deposit in the Republic of Buryatia in East Siberia

* The Moscow City Court jury found seven young men guilty of killing at least 20 people and assaulting 12 others in racially motivated attacks, a court spokesperson said

WORLD

* Around 6,000 ethnic Albanians held a peaceful protest in Kosovo's capital against UN-backed plans for an EU police mission in the province

* Russia and the European Union resumed talks on a comprehensive cooperation treaty three months after they were suspended over the Georgia conflict

* The Council of Europe passed at a session in Strasbourg a recommendation urging Latvia to give its 'non-citizens' the right to vote in regional elections

* Ukraine's president ordered a high-level group be set up to improve ties with Russia in the face of the ongoing financial crisis, the country's top security official said

* A Russian naval task force from the Northern Fleet and the Venezuelan navy successfully conducted the VenRus-2008 joint exercises in the southern Caribbean, a Russian Navy spokesman said

* Kazakhstan lost its first Kazsat-1 satellite, the head of the national space agency said

BUSINESS

* Rak Investment, a company from the United Arab Emirates, bought a 100% stake in Georgia's Black Sea merchant port of Poti, the Georgian Economic Development Ministry announced