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RUSSIA

* Russia turned on the style on Saturday night to defeat Holland in extra time 3-1 and make the semifinals of Euro 2008

* Russia's liberal opposition Yabloko party elected Sergei Mitrokhin, the head of Yabloko's Moscow branch, as its new chairman after the party's long-time leader Grigory Yavlinsky stepped down

* Russia and Belarus denounce any attempts to revise the results of World War Two, a joint declaration by the presidents of both countries said

* Russia and Israel will switch to a visa-free regime at the end of September, the Russian embassy in Israel said

* Two workers died after an ammonia leak at a meat plant in the Saratov Region in southern Russia, a local police source said

* A security officer was wounded after unidentified assailants opened fire on a car near the capital of the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's restive North Caucasus region, a local police source said

* The number of children hit by yersiniosis, an infection contracted through the consumption of undercooked meat, milk, water or vegetables contaminated by the bacteria, in the east Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk rose to 49, a spokesperson for the city's health department said

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* At least one person was killed and 19 others wounded in fighting that broke out in northern Lebanon between pro- and anti-government supporters, the television channel Al Arabia said