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* The first rail shipment of high-quality Russian flour has arrived in the Afghan city of Hairaton, an economic and trade advisor to the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan said

* A new high-rise hotel has been completely destroyed in a blaze in the Chinese capital of Beijing, witnesses said

* Chelsea FC dismissed Luiz Felipe Scolari as manager on Monday after a number of what the club called "deteriorating" results

* Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has said that U.S. President Barack Obama is incapable of solving the U.S.'s problems

* Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has pledged to resume peace talks with the Palestinians should she win Tuesday's parliamentary elections and be appointed premier

* The Ukrainian officials who signed a "prejudicial" gas deal with Russia will be held to account, the Ukrainian president said

* Australians donated more than $6 million on Monday to the victims of bushfires that have killed some 135 people in southern Australia, local media reported

* A video showing the execution of a Polish contractor by Pakistani militants appears to be genuine, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said

* Kazakhstan has permitted the transit of non-military logistical supplies for U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan, a Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman said

* Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a 4,300-year-old burial site containing several unopened sarcophaguses and about 30 mummies, Egypt's chief archeologist said

* The signing of a deal between Belarus and Russia on an integrated regional air defense network is not a response to U.S. plans for a missile shield in Europe, the Belarus foreign minister said

* The Kyrgyz parliamentary defense and security committee approved on Monday the closure of a U.S. military airbase

* The death toll from unprecedented bushfires that have been raging in southern Australia over the past two weeks has risen to 131 people, the media said on Monday referring to local authorities

* Some 70 inmates have escaped from a jail in the southern Brazil's state of Santa Catarina on Monday through the building's main gates, local media said

* A foreign vessel flying a Cambodian flag has been detained on suspicion of poaching of crab in the Pacific Ocean, near Russia's largest island of Sakhalin, a regional coast guard spokeswoman said

RUSSIA

* The head of the Russian Antarctic Expedition denied on Monday media reports concerning an emergency evacuation of the Russian Antarctic station Vostok due to an extreme rise in temperature

* A police officer and a militant were killed and two police officers injured in a shootout in the south of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya on Monday, a local police source said

* There is no basis to media claims that Russian Navy sailors suffered from scurvy while on a mission to patrol waters off Somalia, a Navy spokesman said

* The Russian Pacific Fleet's Admiral Vinogradov destroyer and India's Tabar missile frigate have practiced joint anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast, the Russian Navy spokesman said

* Russia's ambassador to the U.K. has said he hopes the current positive trends in Russian-British relations will allow the two countries to resolve the problems that have hampered their ties in recent years

* Russian police have identified two girls, aged 18 and 19, who were brutally murdered on Sunday west of Moscow, a local police spokesman said

* Russia's Sukhoi aircraft maker opened on Monday a representative office in the capital of India, New Delhi, the company's press service said in a statement

* Five people, including a West Siberian official, were killed and another one severely injured in a car crash outside Moscow, a police source said

BUSINESS

* Russia's Finance Ministry said on Monday it had asked Ukraine to submit more information on its economic problems before considering any request to grant its neighbor a $5 billion loan

* Russia's leading carmaker AvtoVAZ on Monday restarted its production lines, which were halted on Friday over problems with suppliers, the plant's spokesperson said