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Market Matters: RTS Has Toughest Week Since '99
Trading on the dollar-denominated RTS exchange was suspended three times on Friday as anxiety deepened over whether the U.S. House of Representatives would pass a $700 billion financial sector bailout package and share prices on Russian and international markets plummeted.

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Tom Lantos Dies at 80 of Cancer
The Associated Press Representative Tom Lantos, who as a teenager twice escaped from a Nazi-run forced labor camp in Hungary and became the only Holocaust survivor to win a seat in the U.S. Congress, has died. He was 80.

Marshals Say Group Beat Them
By David Nowak / Staff Writer The Federal Court Marshals Service has accused a support group formed by relatives of those killed in the 2004 Beslan school siege of assaulting seven of its officers and one judge, one of the group's leaders said Monday.

CIS Foundation Evicting City's Sculptors
By / Staff Writer For more than 30 years, the historic mansion on Spasonalivkovsky Pereulok in central Moscow has been home to the Moscow Sculptors' Association.

Gas Talks Come Down to The Wire
By Miriam Elder / Staff Writer Emergency talks between Gazprom and Ukraine failed to resolve a simmering debt dispute Monday as the possibility of a mid-winter shut-off of gas supplies to the country inched closer.

Pushing 2 Churches Closer to Each Other
By Alexander Osipovich / Staff Writer Perhaps the most historic event to hit the Orthodox world during President Vladimir Putin's time in office took place in May, when the leaders of two Russian churches agreed to end an 80-year rift.

Bumpy Ride in Drive to Reshape Society
By Alexander Osipovich / Staff Writer With a friend in the Kremlin, the Russian Orthodox Church hoped to reshape society.

Ex-Transportation Minister Arrested
The Associated Press Ukrainian authorities have arrested a former transportation minister on suspicion of embezzling government money on a weekend trip to Paris, officials said Monday.

Baku Will Splash Out Oil Wealth on a Center
By Lada Yevgrashina / Reuters Azerbaijan's ruling elite has grown rich from oil, and now it is to acquire the ultimate status symbol: a monument to the president's father designed by one of the world's most sought-after architects.

Khodorkovsky Ends Hunger Strike
The Associated Press Jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Monday he had ended the hunger strike that he had began 14 days ago to protest the authorities' treatment of Vasily Aleksanyan, the former Yukos executive suffering from AIDS-related cancer and tuberculosis.

Putin Talks Peace With Abdullah II
The Associated Press Jordan's King Abdullah II met with President Vladimir Putin Monday for talks on the situation in the Middle East as well as trade and military cooperation.

European University in St. Pete Shut Down
By Alexander Osipovich / Staff Writer City authorities cite fire violations, but opposition activists say the temporary closure is political.

Medvedev Alone Spared Critical Ads
By Natalya Krainova / Staff Writer Ads at polling stations will inform voters that presidential candidates Gennady Zyuganov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Andrei Bogdanov concealed their true incomes while applying to run, the Central Elections Commission said Monday.

Police Find Arsonist Suspected of Torching Ancient Landmark
The Associated Press Police arrested a suspect Monday in a fire that destroyed a 610-year-old wooden structure atop a gate considered South Korea's top national treasure, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.

East Timor Leader Hurt in Shooting
The Associated Press Rebel soldiers shot and critically wounded East Timor's president and opened fire on the prime minister Monday in a failed coup attempt in the recently independent nation. A top rebel leader was killed during one of the attacks.

Iran Defiant in Anniversary Speech
Reuters Iran intends to send a satellite into space within months and will not retreat in a nuclear row with the West, its president said Monday in a defiant speech on the anniversary of the country's 1979 Islamic revolution.

Caper Sees $160Mln Art Stolen
The Associated Press Three armed men in ski masks stole paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth 180 million Swiss francs ($163.2 million) from a Zurich museum, police said Monday, calling it a ""spectacular art robbery.""

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