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Main News of May 9

19:59 GMT 09.05.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* US military teams were twice ordered to “stand-down” during last year’s attacks on a US diplomatic facility and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) annex in Benghazi, in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, lawmakers were told Wednesday by a senior US diplomat who was in Libya when the attacks took place

* Estonia will hold annual military exercises involving about 4,500 personnel from several NATO countries on May 9-25, the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Forces said

* Ottavio Missoni, founder of the famous Italian fashion house Missoni, has died at home at the age of 92, Italian media reports, citing his family

* South Korea has cautiously welcomed China’s decision earlier this week to close the account of a major North Korean bank, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported

* Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has sent his congratulations to Russia on Victory Day

* Syria’s Foreign Ministry welcomed on Thursday rapprochement between the United States and Russia over resolving the crisis in the war-torn country, the Syrian state news agency has reported

* A record number of wreaths were laid at the Soviet War Memorial in London during a commemoration of the Soviet and British soldiers who served in the Second World War

* Some 953 people are now thought to have died in the factory collapse in Bangladesh, sources in the military told local media

* The emotional debate over what to do with the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been resolved with a private burial, police said, but they have not disclosed exactly where or under what conditions the burial occurred

* A lightning strike has injured at least 43 people at a party in northeast Germany, local media said

RUSSIA

* EN.RIA.RU ran a live broadcast of the military parade on Red Square, dedicated to the 68th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, on May 9 from 10.00 am Moscow time (06:00 GMT)

* In his speech at the parade marking the 68th anniversary of victory in the Second World War, President Putin laid a heavy emphasis on WWII as an eternal reminder of the horrors of war, and stressed Russia’s role in preserving peace and preventing new wars

* More than 160,000 police officers and about 13,000 servicemen will be involved in maintaining security during nationwide Victory Day celebrations in Russia, the Interior Ministry said

* Former Kremlin foreign policy adviser Sergei Prikhodko has been appointed as the acting head of the Russian government staff, the Russian government’s official website said

* Victory Day is trending in Russian on the micro-blogging site Twitter, meaning that it is one of the most popular topics people are posting updates or comments about

* Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has shared pictures of his relatives who fought in the Second World War

* In response to a request posted by bloggers in social networks, Russian space officials have agreed to adjust the work of cameras on a weather satellite to take detailed pictures of the lunar shadow as it moves around the Earth during the May 10 solar eclipse

* One patient died and another was injured in a fire that broke out early on Thursday at a psychiatric hospital in southern Russia’s Krasnodar Territory, the Emergencies Ministry said

* Police in the city of Kirov searched the offices of supporters of Alexei Navalny, one of Russia's most prominent Kremlin critics, following a tip that they may storage extremist propaganda materials, the Interior Ministry said

* While an internationally brokered resolution of the Syrian conflict may not yet be within sight, Russia is in a position to play a crucial role in pushing the Syrian elites to accept a transition process, or so argues Jeffrey Mankoff, Deputy Director and Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the US think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

* Several media outlets in St. Petersburg, and the popular online news broadcaster Dozhd (Rain) have come under hacker attack, their representatives said

* At least 40 migrants have been detained during Victory Day celebrations in downtown Moscow, a spokesman for the Federal Migration Service (FMS) said

* A boy in southwest Russia was accidentally killed by his friend while playing a war game using an old gun, Russian investigators said

* A team of scientists from the United States, Russia and Germany who drilled into the bottom of a Siberian lake, found that the Arctic was not covered in a sheet of ice 3.6 million years ago as it is today, but was warm and forested, a study published says

* Two people, a woman and a child, were injured in a bus blast in north Moscow, local emergencies said

SPORT

* Artem Okulov took gold in the 85 kg category at the junior weightlifting world championship in Lima on Wednesday, bringing Russia’s medal count to three

* Maria Sharapova hung in against Sabine Lisicki, earning a quarterfinals berth at the Madrid Open