* The Atlantis shuttle completed its 10-day stay at the International Space Station and undocked at 2:42 p.m. GMT Tuesday, a NASA spokesperson said
* The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution urging the Russian president to invite foreign experts to help investigate the murders of independent journalists in Russia
* The international committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and Russia's lower house of parliament, State Duma, will hold a joint session Thursday to discuss issues of primary concern to Washington and Moscow
* At Le Bourget air show near Paris:
- Russia's space agency and French satellite launch firm Arianespace signed a contract for the first four launches of European satellites from the Kourou space center in French Guiana
- Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi signed a $283-million contract to supply ten Superjet 100 aircraft to Italian carrier ItAli Airlines
- Italy's Finmeccanica and Alenia-Aeronautica will jointly acquire a blocking stake (25% plus one share) in Sukhoi, the Russian aircraft producer said
- Russia's Irkut aircraft maker said it will export 242 multi-role Su-30 Flanker fighters, worth around $7 billion, by 2014
* Russian citizens awaiting evacuation from the Gaza Strip will not be able to leave before Wednesday, the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv said
* Ukraine intends to join an international uranium enrichment center being established by Russia and Kazakhstan in the near future, Ukraine's Fuel and Energy Ministry said
* GUAM, a group of four ex-Soviet countries, rounded off its two-day summit in the Azerbaijani capital, attended by senior officials from nine non-member states and delegations from 30 international organizations
* North Korea launched a short-range missile toward the Sea of Japan for the third time in 45 days, NHK TV reported citing sources in the Japanese government
* Russia will commission the second unit of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China in late September, Russian nuclear equipment export monopoly, Atomstroyexport, said
* NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer could meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin June 26 at the Russia-NATO Council ambassadorial session in Moscow, dedicated to the Council's fifth anniversary, Russia's ambassador to NATO said
* South Korea's foreign minister said North Korea's $25 million released from a Macao bank in China had been transferred home after a lengthy delay
* Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing a presidential library named after former leader Boris Yeltsin, the Kremlin press service said
* Russia's arms export monopoly dismissed reports that it plans to supply fighter jets to Syria and Iran
* Russia's deputy energy minister backed energy giant Gazprom's request to prevent U.S. oil major Exxon from selling natural gas from the Sakhalin-1 project to China, saying the gas must meet domestic needs
* Vitaly Churkin, Russia's envoy to the United Nations, urged the UN war crimes tribunal for the Balkan conflicts to wrap up its work by the deadline set by the UN Security Council
* The Russian air group, part of the UN Mission in Sudan, will carry out a regular rotation July 3-9, an aide to the Russian Air Force commander said
* Russia's newly-created aluminum giant United Company RusAl said it would set up a joint venture with France's Areva to produce electrical equipment for aluminum enterprises
* Russia's Natural Resources Ministry is prepared to issue a license for the development of Sukhoi Log, a major gold deposit in Eastern Siberia, in 2008, a deputy minister said
* Russia's government will submit to lawmakers by December proposals on managing oil and gas windfall reserves that have accumulated in the Stabilization Fund, the Cabinet's press office said
* Russian-British joint oil venture TNK-BP intends to spend more than $1 billion over the next five years on associated petroleum gas processing, a senior company executive said
* A court in St. Petersburg sentenced four men convicted of murdering a Congolese student in September 2005 to between seven and 14 years in prison
* An early 20th-century Russian painting was sold at a record price of $10 million at Christie's art sale, breaking the previous record for a Russian painting set last week, the London-based auction house said
* Russia's Transportation Ministry said it was considering prohibiting four of the country's airlines from flying to the European Union as of June 25.
* Russia's ambassador to Georgia said resuming air traffic between the two countries, suspended last fall, would improve strained relations between the countries.
* Russian state-owned savings bank Sberbank plans to float its shares on the London Stock Exchange soon, a senior bank official said
* Cuba declared a day of national mourning after Vilma Espin Guillois, the wife of acting president Raul Castro and one of the most politically powerful women in Cuba, died aged 77
* China will start building a highway on Mount Everest next week, Xinhua news agency reported
