Main News of March 10

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours.

WORLD

* Russia and the Arab League have negotiated a plan to settle the bloody political conflict in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday

* Parliamentary elections in the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia ended on Saturday with turnout nearing 40 percent, sufficient to consider them legitimate, local authorities said

RUSSIA

* The unregistered liberal party Parnas wants to create a coalition with the liberal Yabloko party and tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov's nascent opposition party, Parnas co-leader Mikhail Kasyanov said

* Thousands of people critical of the political system led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rallied peacefully on Saturday in central Moscow, asserting that the Russian leader’s recent victory in presidential elections was not fair and demanding reform

 

BUSINESS

* Moody's Investors Service said on Saturday it considers Greece to have defaulted per Moody's default definitions