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00:26 29/11/2009

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* Twenty-six people died and some 90 were injured in the derailment of a Nevsky Express train bound from Moscow to Russia's second largest city St. Petersburg , prosecutors said

* An explosive device equivalent to 7 kg of TNT caused Friday evening's deadly derailment of a train travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the Russian federal security chief, Alexander Bortnikov, said

* Russia's Foreign Ministry welcomed the UN nuclear watchdog's resolution on Moscow's initiative to establish a reserve of low-enriched uranium

* One of the main suspects in an attack on a Moscow-St. Petersburg train that killed at least 26 people was described by the Interior Minister as "over 40, stocky and ginger-haired"

WORLD

* Japan successfully orbited on Saturday an information gathering satellite, the Kyodo news agency said

* Ukraine does not think Russia is to blame for the 1 932-1933 Holodomor famine , President Viktor Yushchenko said

* At least 73 people died when a boat sank on a lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo, regional media reports said

* Britain will start piping in gas directly from Russia in late 2012, the chief executive of Nord Stream, Matthias Warnig, said

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