* Iran rules out any suspension of its nuclear program either as a precondition for talks with major world powers or as their outcome, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said
* The issue of a Soviet WWII memorial in Estonia will be raised at a Russia-EU summit later in May but closer cooperation between Russia and the European Union will top the summit's agenda, a Kremlin source said
* Three policemen were wounded and a suspected militant killed in a security sweep in the Republic of Daghestan in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, the local law-enforcement bodies said
* Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar urged law-enforcement authorities to thoroughly investigate the murder of a Jewish school teacher killed in an apparently ethnically motivated attack in St. Petersburg
* An East Siberian branch of Russia's state savings bank Sberbank offered a reward of 300,000 rubles (about $11,600) for information that could help find the robbers who stole a large amount of money, and also gold and silver bullions from the bank
