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Morning re-cap of main news, February 18

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* Russia's newly appointed Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov pledged to continue the policy of modernizing the Armed Forces, providing servicemen with housing and increasing the number of troops serving on contract

* Two more cases of dead domestic poultry were registered north and southwest of Moscow, regional officials said

* Moscow Region authorities said the outbreaks of dead domestic fowl outside Moscow pose no threat to human health

* Russia's new Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Naryshkin said he intends to focus on efforts to improve the structure of Russian exports and strengthen integration with CIS countries

* Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini reaffirmed the Islamic Republic's intention to press ahead with its uranium enrichment activities

* First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Russia will invest 20 billion rubles (about $760.5 million) in gasification projects in the country's 58 regions in 2007

* American millionaire Charles Simonyi who is set to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) as a space tourist April 7 arrived in Moscow for final training

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