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19:00 17/05/2008

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* Russia beat Finland to make ice-hockey world championship final

* Russian cargo spacecraft docks with ISS

* Russian opposition launches 'alternative' national assembly

* Calf injury forces Sharapova out of Italian Open

* Fire at electric substation in Moscow, no threat to power supply

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* 'Taliban' free kidnapped Pakistan envoy to Afghanistan

* Death toll in China earthquake approaching 30,000

* Ahmadinejad sacks Iranian interior minister

* Naples residents attack firemen extinguishing blazing garbage

* Bush and Mubarak discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts

* Spanish police detain notorious hacker group

* Russian rescuers call off search for quake survivors in China

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