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At least 22 people killed and 10 injured after strong fire in a rehabilitation center for drug addicts in Peruvian capital of Lima, Peru's mass media reported on Saturday.
Customers in large supermarkets of Beijing has to show their ID cards to buy knives from Saturday, Chinese Fachi wanbao newspaper reported.
Greece will not allow the European Union controlling country's budget policy, the Athens news agency said on Sunday quoting a Greek government top official.
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Further liberalization of trade and investment as well as facilitation of regional integration will be on the agenda during Russia’s chairmanship at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an article published on Kremlin’s website on Saturday.
Pentagon is stepping up efforts to make a bomb capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, the Wall Street Journal said on Saturday referring to U.S. officials briefed on the plan.
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An unauthorized rally protesting the recently held parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan begun in downtown Alma-Ata on Saturday, a RIA Novosti correspondent said.
Rescue workers have uncovered the bodies of 17 people killed in the January, 25 building collapse in Rio-de-Janeiro, the state's Civil Defense agency said on Saturday.
Moscow and Tokyo are ready to seek compromise on the conclusion of a bilateral World War II peace treaty, despite the fact that their stances on its possible conditions are different, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Japan will temporarily recall its ambassador to Russia in connection with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to a disputed Kuril island. The visit was the first trip by a head of state of Russia or the former Soviet Union to the South Kuril Islands since the end of WWII. Japan and Russia have disputed four of the islands since 1945, preventing the countries from signing a peace agreement over the war.

Chechen businessman Bulat Chagaev, the owner of the bankrupt Swiss football club Neuchatel Xamax, will be kept in custody for at least a month on suspicion of fraud.
Russia’s help in Serbia's investigation into illegal trafficking in human organs in Kosovo will be very useful
France plans to withdraw its military contingent from Afghanistan in 2013, French President Nicholas Sarkozy said at a joint news conference with his Afghan counterpart.
Russia is not ready to support another UN Security Council draft resolution on Syria, but will continue to search for a solution
International ratings agency Fitch downgraded its sovereign credit ratings of five Eurozone states - Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Spain and Slovenia.



