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* A Russian radio station said Thursday that Ukraine has decided to expel a Russian diplomat who was involved in talks on the presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the country

* Ex-Soviet Central Asian Kyrgyzstan has begun presidential elections on Thursday with six candidates on the ballots, including incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who is seen as a frontrunner

* Exit polls gave incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev a solid lead in Kyrgyzstan's presidential elections with 67% of the vote, against 12.7% for his main opponent, Almazbek Atambayev

* Any improvement in U.S.-Russian relations will not harm Georgia, and the United States will never recognize Abkhazia or South Ossetia as independent states, the U.S. vice president said

* North Korea has launched a bizarre verbal attack on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, calling her vulgar and unintelligent after she likened the communist state to an unruly child earlier this week

* Iceland officially applied to join the European Union on Thursday, with its foreign minister targeting membership within three years

* Four people died and at least 53 are missing after a landslide in southwest China's Sichuan Province, the Xinhua news agency reported

* The 37th two-day summit of the South American largest trade bloc Mercosur opens in Paraguay on Thursday

* Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas urged Israel to demolish its Security Fence erected in the West Bank, Palestinian WAFA news agency reported

* Talks between Honduras' interim government and representatives of ouster President Manuel Zelaya have again broken down in Costa Rica

RUSSIA

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed on Thursday a government order on Russia's participation in an ambitious laser research project to be based in Germany

* Most Russians polled in a recent survey approve the activities of the president and prime minister, a pollster said

* The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Russia to pay 37,000 euros ($53,000) in compensation to the relatives of a Chechen man who was abducted in 2001