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UPDATE 2-Japan’s Dai-ichi Life in talks to buy US insurer Protective Life -source
* Japan firms buying overseas as domestic market stalls (Adds source comment on possible share issue)
CORRECTED-KKR liquidates former Goldman Sachs traders-run hedge fund
(Corrects paragraph 7 to say ‘KKR and its investment staff,’ not ‘KKR investment staff’; also corrects the registering party in paragraph 15 to ‘an investment firm,’ from ‘KKR’)
WRAPUP 2-Russia grants gas respite but talks tough on Ukraine
* Fierce battle rages all day in east (Adds Russian statement on NATO, updates Luhansk fighting)
