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RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a French-brokered plan on resolving conflicts in Georgia, aggravated following Tbilisi's assault on its breakaway South Ossetia on August 8

* Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, said:

- Two Russian pilots downed last week during the conflict in South Ossetia are alive, but wounded and in a Georgian hospital

- Russian troops detained two cars carrying ammunition via a humanitarian channel into the Georgian breakaway republic of South Ossetia

- Russia supports Abkhazia and South Ossetia in their decision against the presence of Georgian peacekeepers on their territories

* Russia snatched two gold medals on Day Eight of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China

* Two police officers were killed and two more wounded over the past 24 hours in various districts of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a police source said

* Russia's Dinara Safina and Yelena Dementyeva will meet on August 17 in the final of women's tennis event of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing

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* Ukraine may integrate its early warning missile system with Europe or propose other countries use its missile defense capabilities, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said

* Iran will launch its first satellite in the nearest few days, the country's president said