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WORLD

* Russia is demanding that Georgia stop seizing ships in neutral waters and intends to request explanation from Tbilisi through Switzerland's mediation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

* Leaders of the rival Palestinian movements, Fatah and Hamas, will separately meet in Cairo with Egyptian leadership to discuss the current progress in inter-Palestinian dialogue

* Iraq has sent additional units of interior troops to its border with Syria "to prevent terrorists from infiltrating the Iraqi territory," Al Jazeera television said

* Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has said he will visit Guatemala and Nicaragua before making another attempt to return to his homeland

* Russia and the United States have started working on a new strategic arms reduction treaty, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

RUSSIA

* A militant killed in Ingushetia in a special operation Friday was a bandit warlord and was involved in an attempt to kill the Russian North Caucasus republic's president, security agencies said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised on Saturday the country's capital and called Moscow a symbol of Russia's renewal

BUSINESS

* Russian economy will be on the rise again as early as in the third quarter of 2009, the country's finance minister said

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* Russian national football team coach Guus Hiddink said it is too early to say if Arsenal forward Andrei Arshavin and Chelsea's Yury Zhirkov will return to the pitch in the 2010 World Cup qualifier against Wales