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* The Israeli Army killed on Thursday in the West Bank a senior Hamas militant who was wanted for the deaths of at least 10 Israelis, an army spokesman said

* An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale hit the Caribbean Sea early on Thursday morning, killing at least one person and destroying homes in Honduras and Belize, regional media said

* Moldova's parliament postponed on Thursday its second and final attempt to elect a new president until June 3

* The vice president of the former Georgian republic of Abkhazia has resigned in protest against the president's treatment of the opposition and lack of progress on key issues

* The first Russian-made A-50 Mainstay AWACS aircraft developed on the basis of Il-76MD military transport plane officially entered service on Thursday with the Indian Air Force (IAF)

* Russia's Irina Belenkaya, embroiled in a high-profile custody battle for her daughter with her estranged French husband, has been released from custody by prosecutors in France and can return to Russia until her trial

RUSSIA

* The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ordered Russia to pay compensation to three Chechen families whose relatives went missing, the court said on its website

BUSINESS

* Belarus has requested a $9 billion loan from Russia for the construction of a nuclear power plant, the Russian finance minister said

RELIGION

* Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia led a Divine Liturgy in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg on Thursday, marking the Russian Orthodox Church's celebration of the Ascension