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Main news of December 10

19:59 GMT 10.12.2011

WORLD

* Russia's ambassador to Qatar, Vladimir Titorenko, who was injured by customs officials at Doha airport on November 29, has left Qatar.

* South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity, who has led the breakaway republic since 2001, announced his resignation under a deal reached with the opposition.

* A total lunar eclipse, the second and last in 2011, takes place on Saturday.

* Three women rights activists from Africa and the Arab world received the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo.

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* Tens of thousands of Russians turned out in cities across the country on Saturday in mass peaceful protest over recent elections they claim were rigged in favor of Vladimir Putin’s governing United Russia party.

* As protests against the alleged violations during Sunday’s Duma polls continue in Moscow, media reports have focused on the fate of a pedestrian bridge across the Moskva River leading to the protest venue.

* The center-left A Just Russia party decided to nominate its leader Sergei Mironov as a candidate for the presidency, the party’s Duma faction leader Nikolay Levichev said.

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