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* North Korea carried out on Monday a total of three test launches of short-range ground-to-air missiles following a successful nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said

* North Korea's nuclear test explosion has been met by a wave of condemnation from countries around the world, with several leaders calling for sanctions

* A senior Russian lawmaker said on Monday that the son of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri was unlikely to use his father's 2005 assassination to gain an advantage at the June 7 parliamentary polls

* Ukraine's security service has launched criminal proceedings in connection with a Soviet-era famine that killed millions of people, the agency said on its website

* Newly-elected Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was sworn in during a ceremony overseen by the country's president in Kathmandu

RUSSIA

* Jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky accused Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday of listening in on his lawyers' telephone conversations

* Russia will continue its efforts as a permanent member of the UN Security Council to help build a collective security system in Africa, the Russian president said

* The Russian government should finalize its proposals in the coming two to three months for cuts in budget spending amid the ongoing economic crisis, Kremlin economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich said

* The Russian Embassy in Tallinn has sent a note to the Estonian Foreign Ministry urging the country to investigate the recent vandalism of a Soviet war memorial, and to bring the culprits to justice

BUSINESS

* G8 energy ministers meeting in Rome have taken an interest in an energy proposal made by President Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said

SPORT

* World No. 1 Dinara Safina of Russia began her French Open campaign with a resounding victory in the first round over Britain's Anne Keothavong

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