Main News of January 12 Posted byRussian_Village January 12, 2013 Leave a comment on Main News of January 12 WORLD * International Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said after talks with Russian and US diplomats on Friday that a political solution to the Syrian conflict is unlikely to emerge in the near future * French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has confirmed that a French military contingent arrived in Mali to help the government troops stop the advance of Islamist militants to the country’s south * Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg created a local political sensation on Saturday by making it to the runoff of the country’s first direct presidential vote, where he would face former Prime Minister Milos Zeman RUSSIA * Two train drivers were killed in Russia’s Irkutsk region on Saturday when their train carrying coal was derailed, the local Emergencies Ministry said CRIME * A Moscow journalist who was reported missing last week was killed and dismembered by her husband, a cook who co-founded a legendary bohemian hangout in the capital, investigators said on Saturday