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On 25-26 April

He wrote a letter today to the Prime Minister

He requested the Government to take all measures

Adds more contract details in paras 10-12) TRIPOLI, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow wrote off on Thursday Libya's $4.5 billion debt in exchange for multi-billion dollar contracts for Russian companies. The cancelation of the debt, accrued on Soviet arms

MOSCOW, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - At least 17 people were killed and 35 others, mostly civilians, injured on Thursday in a suicide bomb attack in front of a mosque in southwest Afghanistan, local officials said. The governor of the

S. could ease Russia's concerns over its plans to deploy missile defenses in Central Europe, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov * A Moscow court released ex-nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov, sentenced to 5.5 years in prison on fraud charges, changing the jail

TBILISI, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia is urging the UN Security Council and the OSCE to call emergency meetings after Russia's announced measures in support of its breakaway republics, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Russia's Foreign Ministry said

STOCKHOLM, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian and Ukrainian national were killed in a fire in a mine on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the press attache of the Russian embassy in Norway said on Thursday. At the time

He thanked to Polish colleagues for filming a part of Ukrainian history

On introducing non-visa regime

To attend the 18th meeting of OBSEC foreign ministers council

Ukraine FM already handed his Russian counterpart a draft memorandum

To support her government`s activities?

GAZA, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Israeli military strikes killed at least 20 Palestinians of whom most were civilians in a new surge of violence in Gaza, and three Israeli servicemen were killed in a Hamas ambush. United Nations Secretary

Russia's outgoing president, Vladimir Putin, arrived in Tripoli for a two-day visit at the invitation of the country's leader, Muammar Qaddafi.

TEL AVIV, April, 17 (RIA Novosti) - Israel could launch a major ground incursion in the Gaza Strip this summer to cripple Hamas's infrastructure, The Jerusalem Post quoted unidentified sources in Jerusalem as saying. They said the incursion, similar to

MEXICO CITY, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Venezuela's parliament has adopted a law to introduce an excess profit tax for oil producers to boost social development amid soaring global oil prices, Mexican media said on Thursday. Oil prices hit a

HONG KONG, April 17 (RIA Novosti) - Work to raise a Ukrainian ship that sunk after colliding with a Chinese vessel near China's southern coast on March 22 will take two weeks, the South China Morning Post said Thursday. Earlier