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Main news of September 28

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* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov slammed U.S. "unipolar" policies in Iraq and Afghanistan and said they contributed to the recent conflict between Moscow and Tbilisi over Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia

* Two sailors from the Tolstoy cargo ship that sank off the Bulgarian coast early on Saturday have survived while others are still missing, Russian TV news channel Vesti 24 reported

* Police seized almost 4 kg of heroin in two raids in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, the local law enforcement bodies said

WORLD

* The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution, reaffirming demands for Iran to halt uranium enrichment but imposing no new sanctions on the Islamic Republic

* President George W. Bush welcomed the approval by the U.S. House of Representative of a bill lifting a 30-year ban on the sale of civilian nuclear materials to India

* Three Chinese astronauts safely returned to Earth after a successful space mission, state television reported

* Belarussians voted in a parliamentary election, which the authorities say will be the most fair in the country's history

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