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RUSSIA

* Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said at an international conference on security in Munich:

- Russia will safeguard its national interests without creating any military blocs

- Russia will respond effectively and at a lower cost to the deployment of a U.S. missile defense shield in Europe

- Russia will not recognize the sovereignty of separatist South Ossetia and Abkhazia, if Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo is declared independent

- Russia needs $1 trillion in investment to modernize its economy

* The launch of a Russian carrier rocket with a Norwegian telecoms satellite has been delayed until February 11 for technical reasons, Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said

* Food supplies to residents of the Komandor Islands off Russia's Pacific Coast have been delayed at least until February 12 due to continued storms, the regional emergencies center said

* A deal to write off Iraq's debt to Russia will open prospects for bilateral cooperation in all spheres, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said upon arrival in Moscow

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* U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station Saturday but a spacewalk to install a European science laboratory was delayed for 24 hours due to an astronaut health problem, NASA said

* A bomb threat that sparked the evacuation of more than 500 oil workers from an oil rig in the North Sea was false, British TV channel Sky News said