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WORLD

*The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday urged international bodies operating in Kosovo to prevent the region from turning into a training ground for Syrian rebels.

*Bushehr, Iran’s first nuclear power plant, will start commercial energy production by the end of 2012, the plant's General Designer Valery Limarenko said.

*Fifteen people died and six others were injured when an Agni Air Dornier 228 passenger aircraft crashed at a remote airfield in Nepal’s northern Mustang region on Monday, nepalnews.com reported.

 

RUSSIA

*An employee at a Russian defense firm in the Urals region has been accused of passing secrets on the Bulava intercontinental missile to a foreign intelligence service, the Kommersant daily reported.

*Four members of the Russian parliament were excluded from their A Just Russia party for voting in favor of former President Dmitry Medvedev becoming prime minister.

*Police on Monday started dispersing a protest camp near Moscow set up by environmental activists fighting to stop a forest from being chopped down for a new road development, an activist said.

*When police trucks pulled up at Moscow’s anti-Putin Occupy camp on Monday afternoon, activists feared the worst.

*The number of happy Russians rose to a record 82 percent in April, eclipsing the previous high of 77 percent recorded in March 2008, All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center reported.

*The co-owner of a Russian nightclub where a fire killed 156 people in 2009 was sentenced to six and a half years in jail.

 

BUSINESS

*Apple has contracted the specialists at Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Lab to analyze the vulnerabilities of its Mac OS X operating system and improve its security, the computing.co.uk website reported.

 

 

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