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MOSCOW (AP) – Leaders of Russia and the European Union on Thursday launched a two-day summit overshadowed by the stress on the natural gas supply to Europe and the war for years past between Russia and Georgia.

The Russian president Dimitri Medvedev receives senior EU officials in the eastern city of Khabarovsk, a 6100 km (3.800 miles) and seven time zones away from Moscow.

Russia and the EU have close ties through trade and both say they want to improve relations, which have been strained for years because of disputes ranging from tariffs on imported timber to history Kremlin's human rights.

The EU suspended negotiations to create a closer after the war between Russia and the pro-Western Georgia last August. In October, the union announced it would negotiate.

However, there is little progress in the talks and reach Khabarovsk after an outage of Russian natural gas via Ukraine to Europe left shivering cold during two weeks of February.

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Tallinn, May 20 – RIA Novosti, Nikolai Adashkevich. Tartu County Court on Wednesday authorized the arrest of the Prefect of the Prefecture Police Idaskoy Aivaru Otsalta, which suspected of committing several crimes, the press service of the court.

Prefect Idaskoy Prefectural Police Aivar Otsalt on Tuesday morning was arrested by the Security Police of Estonia (CAPO), which works to protect the public interest.

Otsalta suspect in the group embezzlement, private surveillance, illicit arms trafficking, as well as participation in the illegal hunting and fishing, which caused significant damage to the environment.

Earlier Otsalt headed Lyunaskuyu prefecture, in the area of responsibility which includes the city of Tartu, and his detention was linked to a loud series of arrests of criminal police officers of Tartu.

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Santiago de Chile, 20 may (EFE) .- The Ministry of Health this afternoon Chileconfirmo eight new cases of influenza A in the country, the number of infected queelevo by AH1N1 virus to 24 people, high lamas throughout South America.

This morning, the ministry had confirmed seiscasos others of this type of influenza.

The secretary surrogate of Health of Chile, Cecilia Morales said at a press conference that the patients are in good condition, receiving treatment at home.

The authority reiterated that the epidemiological situation laesperada with a virus is easily transmissible between people, especially children.

These statements are added to the Health Minister ГѓВЃlvaro Erazo, delivered to Congress a few weeks ago in anticipation queun 20 percent of the population in Chile (16.2 million dehabitantes) were infected with the virus and that the figure demuertos may exceed 200.

We like to have a limited transmission unasostenida now, so the increase of cases in the next semanaspodria be persistent, Erazo said at the time.

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TEL-AVIV, May 20 – RIA Novosti. Israeli aircraft bombed on the night of Wednesday a number of objects in the Gaza Strip in response to the first During the last two weeks of rocket fire by Palestinian militants, the press service of IDF.

air strikes have inflicted on the two workshops in Gaza City, where, as the military claimed it was manufacturing weapons, and four underground tunnels that are used for the delivery in escrow enclave smuggling from neighboring Egypt.

Local media reported one Palestinian, wounded in the bombing.

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ISLAMABAD (AP) – The Taliban in Pakistan vowed to defend their positions in the death of Suat valley in northwest of the country, while troops are moving in the area and government on Monday sought to achieve political support for its offensive against possible urban battles, that could mean the loss of civilian life.

Washington has pressured Islamabad to dispel the bastions of al Qaeda and the Taliban to along the border with Afghanistan, saying that the militia not only mean a threat to U.S. troops and NATO in Afghanistan, but a risk that nuclear weapons falling into his possession.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday reiterated that nuclear weapons were safe, amid rumors that the government is expanding its arsenal.

The weak civilian government of Pakistan has sought public support for his offensive Suat and the response has been relatively positive, given the outrage by the general progress of the Taliban to a district located 95 kilometers from the capital, Islamabad.

In order to achieve greater consensus, government officials met Monday with leaders of major political parties in Islamabad.

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SARAJEVO, May 19 – RIA Novosti, Yulia Petrovskaya. Vice President Joseph Biden arrives on Tuesday morning with a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the framework of a Balkan tour, during which he will also visit Serbia and Kosovo.

officially announced that Biden will stay in Sarajevo one day. He will meet with the leaders of BiH and make a speech to the Bosnian Parliament. Then U.S. Vice-President will meet with diplomats from the American Embassy.

In Sarajevo visit Biden emphasized. Washington, as noted by the experts, was the architect of the Bosnian state. When Bill Clinton's administration negotiated the Dayton Agreement which ended the war and identify the current unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

American position could become a defining issue in the rebuilding the country, who came to the forefront of the Bosnian policy.

B & H consists of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Muslim-Croat) and the Republika Srpska. While the above is the central government and the collegial presidency, is in fact separate entities Union.

expected that during negotiations in Sarajevo, Biden will stress the need for reforms that would enable the country to join the NATO and EU. Under these reforms, Western countries, above all, implies the unification of the country by making amendments to the Constitution.

While the political forces representing the three constituent people of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Bosniaks, Muslims, Serbs and Croats – are far from consensus on this issue . The estimated number of observers, the country's growing political tensions.

During his visit to Sarajevo Biden will be accompanied by EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana. He will participate in all negotiations that are scheduled in the Bosnian capital.

The meeting will attend the High Representative (PT) in Bosnia and Herzegovina Valentin Intsko – international administrator with broad powers. The relevant post was introduced in the country after the war years 1992-1995 VP reports to Steering Committee of the Peace Implementation Council on Bosnia and Herzegovina, which includes including Russia.

Bosnian leaders put different emphases the eve of negotiations.

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CAIRO, May 19 – RIA Novosti, Margarita Kislova. Several thousand opponents of last year's August putsch carried out in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, a demonstration in protest against scheduled for June 6, this year's presidential election, reported on Tuesday the Arab media.

The demonstrators also demanded the immediate commencement of negotiations for the release of the deep political crisis that developed in the country after the next gosperevorota.

Sixth of August last year, Mauritania has a military coup. The group of senior military officers seized the presidential palace in Nouakchott, and arrested President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdellahi (first head of state, elected to the highest office by democratic means), as well as Prime Minister and head of the MVD. Later deposed president was released. The international community strongly condemned the forcible change of power in Mauritania.

This demonstration was the mass protest action after gosperevorota. It was organized jointly by the National Front for the Defense of Democracy (NFZD) and the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), Ahmed Ould Daddah, one of the most influential leaders of the Mauritanian opposition.

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Vilnius, 17 may (EFE) .- La Dalia Grybauskaite eurocomisaria today won the first round of presidential elections in Lithuania, according to early official results, but it is not known yet whether participation is sufficient to avoid a second round.

With just over 50 percent of the ballots scrutinized, Grybauskaite, European Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget, and independent candidate, received 65 percent of the votes , informed the Central Election Commission (CEC).

His closest rivals among the other six candidates, Social Democratic leader, Algirdas Butkevicius, and the representative of the party Order and Justice, Valentinas Mazuronis, were 12.4 and 7.2 percent respectively.

To succeed in the first round, a candidate must obtain more than half the votes cast, provided that participation exceed 50 percent of the census, and if less, must receive to win the votes of not less than one third of the electorate.

The CEC said that an hour before closing school participation was 44.28 percent of the census, so-adding the votes in advance and without even those living abroad, was 49.4 percent.

In the presidential Lithuanians cast their vote could be nearly 2.7 million voters registered in the census, the total of 3.4 million, but polls predicted that up to 46 percent of the electorate was proposed not to the polls.

If no candidate gets proclaimed president in the first round, the two most voted will be measured in a second round on June 7, coinciding with the European Parliament elections.

The president of the CEC, Zenone Vaigauskas, explained that the law establishes procedures for scrutiny depending on whether the participation is greater than or less than half the census.

The current share is estimated at around 50 percent, so we can see ourselves obliged not to scrutinize and manually recount electronic ballots, which would delay the announcement of the results, said.

However, nobody doubts that in this first round or within two weeks Grybauskaite will become the first woman president of this Baltic country, replacing veteran leader State outgoing Valdas Adamkus, to 82 years.

The eurocomisaria, 53, is one of the few respected personalities and professional reputation, in contrast to the widespread popular distrust in the institutions and political parties, accused of populism and tainted by corruption scandals.

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WASHINGTON, May 16 – RIA Novosti, Maria Tabak. Another Guantanamo prisoner had left Cuba in anticipation of the planned year-end closing scandalous U.S. prison , U.S. media reported, citing unnamed administration for Barack Obama.

Algerian Lakhdar Bumedin (Lakhdar Boumediene), was released from Guantanamo Bay on Friday. According to reports, he immediately went to France to join relatives.

Bumedin was arrested along with five other Algerians in 2001 in Bosnia on suspicion of planning terrorist attack against the American embassy in Sarajevo. In Guantanamo, he has since January 2002.

promise to close the prison, known brutal methods of interrogation of suspected terrorists, was one of the first promises Obama president.

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Mexico, 15 may (EFE) .- Mexican police rescued two menoressalvadorenos a banda suspected traffickers personasmantenia captive in a house in the state of Mexico, in centrodel country, official sources reported today.

The Attorney General's Office (PGR, OTP) said ina statement that a police operation conducted pasadomiercoles allowed the arrest of four suspected traffickers in depersonas a home in the municipality of Nopaltepec tothe two Salvadorans and release.

The Mexican authorities indicated that the operation was conducted following a request from Interpol ElSalvador collaboration to investigate a case connected with the traffic depersonas.

The PGR said that this case began following a complaint before the Unit against smuggling and trafficking of Salvadoran lafiscalia, stating that a home in Mexico seencontraban two captive children, so The Government asked the Central delpais collaboration of Mexico.

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