| October 2009 |
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At least 136 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in one of this year's deadliest attacks in Iraq on Sunday, the Vesti TV channel reported.
Italy's Francesca Schiavone won the Kremlin Cup for her second career title after defeating Olga Govortsova from Belarus 6-3, 6-0 in Sunday's women's singles final.
The Russian government will not raise export duties on round timber in 2010 and considers it possible to make a similar decision in 2011, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
One of the former Ingush opposition leaders was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a local police source said on Sunday.
Russia is seeking Finnish investment in timber processing in the Russian Far East, Industry Minister Viktor Khristenko said on Sunday.
Police found an arms cache in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the republican interior ministry reported on Sunday.
Three coalminers who were trapped underground for more than eight days in northwest China were safely pulled out by rescue workers on Sunday, official news agency Xinhua reported.
The death toll in shootouts between rival drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro has risen to 42 people, local police reported on Sunday. 
At least eight people were killed and 28 others injured in a road accident in the Qinghai province in northwest China, official news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
A technical support and repair facility for Russian aircraft in Bolivia will be built at a former U.S. base near the town of Chimore in the center of the country.
A U.S. missile destroyer, which was a target of a terrorist attack in 2000, has arrived on a friendly visit to the port of Tallinn.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will sign an agreement on strategic partnership with Russia during an official visit to Moscow on October 29.
Four UN nuclear inspectors arrived in Iran early on Sunday to inspect the country's second uranium enrichment facility near the city of Qom.
Senior U.S. and North Korean negotiators held a meeting on Saturday in New York to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the resumption of stalled nuclear talks.
At least 25 people were killed and 55 injured in a deadly collision between two trains near the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who was officially nominated as candidate for president, told supporters that Kiev could build neighborly relations with Moscow, but its future lay with Europe.



