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Over 20 people were killed and some 100 injured in separate bomb attacks in Iraq on Thursday during the Shiite religious festival of Ashura, local media reported.
Russian energy giant Gazprom will hold talks with Bulgaria in January on the implementation of the project to build the South Stream gas pipeline, the Russian energy minister said Thursday.
President Dmitry Medvedev summed up the year in a live broadcast. The program Summary of the Year with the Russian President appeared on three federal TV channels - Channel One, Rossiya and NTV

The lower house of the Russian parliament on Thursday urged foreign parliaments and international organizations to condemn the destruction of a WWII memorial in Georgia.
The Georgian leadership is a threat to peace and security in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.
RIAN News Service looks back at the main events of the outgoing year; below the month-by-month review of 2009 continues, with May.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with his Japanese counterpart Katsuya Okada during his Moscow visit on December 27-28, Russian Foreign Ministry's representative Andrei Nesterenko said.
President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday U.S. President Barack Obama is a strong politician, and they have developed genuine relations
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that he is dissatisfied with the results of the recent climate change conference in Copenhagen.
The 15th UN Climate Change Conference will open on December 7 in Copenhagen
to discuss a new legally binding agreement on the reduction of carbon
emissions.

President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated on Thursday that Russia has survived the global economic crisis with no major losses.
At least five people were killed and some 20 were injured when two suicide bombers attacked a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan in the early hours of Thursday, local television channel Aaj News said, quoting police sources.
Afghan police have accidentally killed a senator in the north of the country, a source in the emergencies ministry said on Thursday.
At least four men died in an explosion on Thursday at a chemical plant in Osaka in western Japan.
Belarus and Venezuela have agreed to invest $8 billion in joint development and production at the Junin-1 oil deposit in the Orinoco River Basin.
U.S. Raytheon Company has announced it has received defense orders worth $1.1 billion to supply Taiwan with advanced Patriot air defense systems.
Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft company will start deliveries of its new Superjet 100 regional airliner in the middle of 2010.
Russian Railways (RZD) could impose fines on Siemens AG for several technical problems experienced by a high-speed train built by the German engineering giant for Russia.
Russian news agency RIA Novosti has held a presentation of the Arabic edition of the Moscow News paper, Anbaa Mosku, in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.



