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WORLD

* More Americans distrust the news media than ever before, the U.S. polling agency Gallup reported

* A Russian helicopter delivering humanitarian aid to the Georgian breakaway republic of South Ossetia landed on Georgian territory due to the failure of its navigation system, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said

* At least three people were killed and dozens injured on Friday in clashes between Pakistani police and protesters over a film that has sparked riots across the Islamic world

* A U.S. congressional panel has identified five countries including China, Russia and Ukraine, that it says lack legal protections for copyrigh

RUSSIA

* Far more Russians today believe in heaven and hell than two decades ago, according to an opinion poll conducted by the Levada Center

* Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor on Friday suspended imports of strong alcohol from the Czech Republic following lethal poisoning cases in that country, Russia’s chief state sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said

* A Russian regional court reversed a lower court’s decision to reduce the sentence of Platon Lebedev, the former business partner of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky

POLITICS

* Russian rights group Memorial said it will not comply with the new law that is likely to class it as “a foreign agent”

* Russia’s ruling party lashed out at allegations by Washington that it had taken advantage “over the years” of programs run by a U.S. development aid mission closed down by Moscow earlier this week over claims of political meddling

DEFENSE

* The Russian Air Force’s first Su-30SM advanced fighter jet made its first flight on Friday, the manufacturer said

BUSINESS

* UK oil giant BP "may increase its stake" in Russian oil major Rosneft, Rosneft's CEO Igor Sechin said, as part of BP's disposal of its 50 percent stake in the TNK-BP joint venture

* LUKoil, Russia's largest privately-owned oil company, has broken off talks with state-owned Rosneft over cooperation on offshore shelf projects, LUKoil's head Vagit Alekperov said