WORLD
* Polish police confirmed the death of one person and 56 have been hospitalized after a train derailed in central Poland
* An official account belonging to Ukrainian former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko appeared on Facebook, however the page will be managed by her press service as the politician is in a pretrial detention center
* The European Union will extend sanctions against Syria, spokesman for EU Michael Mann said
* At least 24 people have been killed in clashes with government forces in Syria as the nationwide 5-month-old riot heated up ahead of the upcoming traditional Friday prayers, Arab media reported
* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave his backing to a UN Security Council resolution which authorized international military action in Libya
* The United States has imposed additional economic sanctions against Belarus, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told a daily press briefing
* There can be no military solution to the Libyan crisis, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement circulated by his press service
RUSSIA
* The Russian Health Ministry is promoting a harsh anti-tobacco draft, stipulating a ban on smoking in public transportation, cafes and night clubs, the organization’s press service said
* Russia’s ruling party United Russia and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s public organization People’s Front have proposed extending the legal drinking and smoking age to 21, spokesman Timur Prokopenko said
* The Russian Investigation Committee charged two doctors over lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death in a pre-trial detention center, committee spokesman Sergei Markin said