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Main News of March 10

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Venezuela will hold a presidential election to elect a successor to late Hugo Chavez on April 14, the country’s electoral council said following an extraordinary meeting on Saturday.

*Over 900 dead pigs have been retrieved from the Huangpu River, a drinking water source for residents of Shanghai, China’s most populous city, the local media reported on Sunday.

RUSSIA

*A Russian Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the fate of the crew is unknown, a source in Russia’s law-enforcement agencies said on Sunday.

*Russian Orthodox priests will soon join the Emergencies Ministry’s brigades of psychologists in their work at the sites of accidents and natural disasters, the Moscow Patriarchate reported.

*Protesters rallied in a village of Russia’s Voronezh region Sunday protesting against the projected launch of nickel and copper mining ventures.

BUSINESS

* Iran will start exporting gas to Iraq within the next three months, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said on Sunday.

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