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15:58 GMT 02.05.2009

RUSSIA

* A policeman was killed in a blast that occurred in the southeast of Chechnya, in Russia's North Caucasus, a local police source said

* One person died and eleven others were injured when a bus collided with a truck in the Moscow Region, the regional traffic police chief said

* Three people were injured after a Mi-2 helicopter ambulance crashed in Kazan, the capital of the Russian Tatarstan republic located on the Volga River, a local emergencies ministry's spokesman said

* Svetlana Kuznetsova breezed past her compatriot Elena Dementieva in the semifinals of the Stuttgart Grand Prix

* Six people were injured in two separate road accidents on the Moscow ring road, a spokesman for the traffic police in the Russian capital said

* Russia's emergencies ministry said that engine failure is the suspected cause of a Mi-2 helicopter ambulance crash that occurred in Kazan, Russia's Tatarstan republic

WORLD

* The World Health Organization (WHO) said the number of human cases of the swine flu virus A (H1N1) had risen to 615 from 365

* The U.S. urged Russia and China to lift a ban imposed on imports of raw pork from the United States, the U.S. trade secretary said

* Russian border guards have started their duties as part of a joint border-protection agreement concluded between Russia and two former Georgian republics, a border service spokesperson said

* The Ukrainian embassy in Kenya said it is checking media reports that a Ukrainian-crewed ship was seized by pirates

* Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandyan is due to visit Washington on May 3-5 at the invitation of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Armenia's foreign ministry said

* At least 26 people were killed in a passenger bus crash in southern Uzbekistan, a spokesman for the country's Interior Ministry said

* The head of South Ossetia's Supreme Court has been killed in a road accident in the former Georgian republic, a statement by the South Ossetian state information committee said

BUSINESS

* U.S. tycoon Stan Kroenke has increased his stake in Arsenal to 28.3% to overtake Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov for control of the football club, British media said