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15:25 GMT 26.07.2008

WORLD

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko asked the patriarch of Constantinople to give his blessing to the country's plans for a national church independent of Russian Orthodoxy

* Russia's Dinara Safina trounced Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-3 6-1 in the Los Angles Classic quarter-finals, and will meet top-seed Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in the semis

* Hamas arrested over 170 activists from rival Palestinian group Fatah in Gaza, following a bomb attack in which five Hamas members and a young girl died, Fatah-controlled media reported

RUSSIA

* Russian-British oil venture TNK-BP confirmed media reports that company CEO Robert Dudley had been summoned by Moscow prosecutors, but said Dudley was unlikely to attend in person

* The Moscow prosecutor's office said that there are no grounds for taking action against Robert Dudley, the CEO of Russian British oil company TNK-BP, as he did not break labor laws.

* Moscow police have detained a Belarusian national found to be carrying a home-made bomb outside a train station in central Moscow, a police source said.

* Russian state nuclear power corporation Rosatom plans to work with aluminum giant UC RusAl to build a 4GW nuclear plant and an aluminum factory in the Far East, a Rosatom subsidiary said