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Main news of April 10

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

* The Tu-154 passenger plane with Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed some 300-400 meters from the runway near the Russian city of Smolensk on Saturday morning while landing in heavy fog

* The Kyrgyz provisional government has held its first talks with President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who fled the capital after violent protests, a OSCE special envoy said

* Russia may offer Ukraine a loan of between $5 billion and $6 billion for construction of the third and fourth units of the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant, Russian Prime Minster Vladimir Putin said

* A search and rescue team has found the bodies of eight people from under an avalanche after a helicopter with a group of German tourists went missing on the Kamchatka Peninsula, a Far East Emergencies Ministry spokesman said

* The number of deaths resulting from the unrest in Kyrgyzstan has reached 79, the provisional Health Ministry press secretary said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has blasted a U.S. couple who sent a 7-year-old adopted boy back to Russia claiming he was "psychopathic"

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