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Main News of March 18

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours.

WORLD

Former East German Lutheran pastor and pro-democracy activist Joachim Gauck was on Sunday elected German president with an overwhelming majority in a first round of voting

A car bomb blew up on Sunday at a residential neighborhood in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, the country's state news agency SANA said, calling it a "terrorist bombing"

Gunmen shot dead an American teacher in the Yemeni province of Taiz on Sunday, U.S. media reported with a reference to high-ranking defense ministry officials

RUSSIA

A Just Russia Party leader Sergei Mironov called on President Dmitry Medvedev to look into the situation in Astrakhan where ten people have gone on a hunger strike to denounce the results of the recent mayoral elections

SPORTS

Lokomotiv Moscow consigned Guus Hiddink to his first defeat as Anzhi manager, with Denis Glushakov's second-half strike sealing the points for the hosts

Marcos Pizzelli's cool finish earned Dan Petrescu's FC Kuban a 1-0 win over Rubin Kazan in the Russian Premier League

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