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*Algerian troops have found five terrorists alive at a desert gas plant in eastern Algeria at the center of a deadly hostage crisis, private Algerian television station Ennahar said
* Protesters held a rally outside the Georgian president's residence in Tbilisi to demand the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili
* Venezuela’s cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez is entering a new phase of treatment after finishing post-operative care, Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said
* Twenty-five burnt bodies have been found inside a desert gas facility in eastern Algeria after a bloody raid ended a four-day hostage standoff, private Algerian television station Ennahar said
* The five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) agreed to expand tax policy cooperation and step up their fight against tax evasion, a joint communiqué said
*Afghanistan blasted Russia for what it said was inadequate assistance in Afghanistan’s fight against drugs production
*Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II will arrive in Moscow on Sunday on a visit that could create a general background for progress in bilateral relations which have been almost non-existent since the two countries fought a brief war in August 2008
*Austria holds a national referendum to decide on whether to scrap conscription and move to a professional army or to keep the military draft and alternative civilian service
*Algerian forces brought an end to the hostage crisis after nearly a four-days standoff between Algerian security forces and an al-Qaeda-backed Islamist group, official said
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