WORLD
* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko attacked her presidential election rival Viktor Yanukovych over his refusal to take part in a televised debate
* At least 41 people have been killed and 106 injured by a female suicide bomber in Baghdad, Aljazeera news agency, citing the Iraqi interior ministry, said
* Beijing will never make concessions on independence for Tibet, a senior Chinese official said on Monday at a meeting with envoys of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama
RUSSIA
* A police officer has died of his injuries after an explosion at a nursery in Russia"s North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, police said
* Russia"s Foreign Ministry rejected on Monday Japan"s protest over an incident in which Russian border guards opened fire on two Japanese fishing vessels off the disputed South Kuril islands
* The Russian Orthodox Church marked one year since Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia was enthroned