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Main news of February 23

19:09 23/02/2009

* Two major Georgian opposition groups, the Republican Party and the New Right party, merged to form the Alliance for Georgia with Tbilisi's former ambassador to the UN, Irakly Alasaniya

* Three people are in custody over a Cairo bombing on Sunday evening which killed a 17-year-old French girl and injured 24 other people, Egyptian police said

* Two miners have died in a cave-in in a mine in the town of Prokopyevsk in the southwest Siberian Kemerovo Region, a Russian police source said

* Georgia's opposition Labor party accused British Ambassador Denis Keefe of conspiring with the authorities in denying its leader a U.K. visa and demanded he leave the Caucasus state

* Ukrainian political and civic activists held a rally in Crimea for Defender of the Fatherland Day, burning a NATO flag to protest the military alliance's eastward expansion

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated his Ukrainian counterpart, Viktor Yushchenko, wishing him good health on his 55th birthday, the Ukrainian president's press office said

* The Russian Communist Party used a Moscow rally marking Defender of the Fatherland Day to slam the government's plans for military reform

* Armenia announced a tender for the construction of a new reactor for the country's sole nuclear power plant

* The global financial crisis could prompt Kazakhstan to suspend a joint venture with Russia's Gazprom to process Central Asian natural gas in the Urals city of Orenburg, the country's energy minister, Sauat Mynbayev, said

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