MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom (GAZP.MM: Quote, Profile, Research) reduced supplies to Ukraine by a quarter on Monday, just hours after its chairman and Kremlin candidate Dmitry Medvedev won Russia’s presidential election.

GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas declared a “victory” in the Gaza Strip on Monday after the Palestinian militant group and residents said Israeli troops had pulled back to the border from positions taken inside the north of the enclave in recent days.

Local officials in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province said gunmen destroyed a mobile-phone tower in the Sangin district on March 2.