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* Iraq will buy armaments worth $13 billion from the United States by 2013 and will spend another $13 bn on weapons later, a Baghdad newspaper reported citing an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman

* Arizona police have confirmed that six people were killed and 13 others were wounded when a gunman went on a shooting spree as U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords addressed her supporters in Tucson

* An Iranian Airlines jet with 95 passengers on board crashed near the city of Urumiyeh in the northwest of the country, Iran's Mehrnews reported, citing Reza Nakhjavani, the director of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization

* Polling stations in Sudan, in which the country may split into two independent countries, closed on Sunday, a RIA Novosti correspondent has reported

RUSSIA

* The Krasin icebreaker reached the Sakhalin Bay in Russia's Far East to join a rescue operation to free a group of ships caught in heavy ice floe, a spokesperson for Russia's Far East Shipping Company said

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