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15:03 GMT 30.08.2008

RUSSIA

* Russian human rights groups will gather in central Moscow in memory of murdered investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who would have celebrated her 50th birthday

* At least two Russian soldiers were killed in explosions in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, including a suicide attack on an Interior Ministry base, prosecutors said

* Russia's Emergencies Ministry said that a missing An-2 aircraft with four people on board had been forced to make an emergency landing and had not crashed

* Zenit St. Petersburg beat Manchester United 2-1 to lift the Super Cup, the annual fixture between the holders of the Champions League and the UEFA Cup

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* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the British premier that Russia wants to hold constructive talks with the EU and international groups on the Georgian crisis

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned European countries against following U.S. foreign policy ahead of an EU emergency meeting on Monday on the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia

* The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has accumulated evidence pointing to "numerous wrong decisions" made by Georgian leaders that led to a military crisis with Russia, Der Spiegel said

* Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Russia had made the right decision by recognizing Georgia's breakaway regions, local media reported

* Georgia's reintegration minister said that Tbilisi was formally pulling out of a 1994 UN-approved agreement signed in Moscow by Abkhazia and Georgia following a bloody conflict

* At least 22 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck China's southwest Sichuan Province, local media said

* A U.S. vessel, involved in delivering aid to Georgia, will visit the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, used by Russia's Black Sea Fleet on September 1, a source in the city administration said

* Russian and U.S. airliners were a minute away from a midair collision over the Atlantic Ocean when the Russian Boeing 747 descended avoiding a crash, a spokesman for the Russian air company said

* At least 45 people, including women and children, were wounded when a bomb exploded in a busy market area in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, a health ministry spokesperson said

* Over 50% of Poles think that economic sanctions should be imposed on Russia following the conflict in South Ossetia, the Gfk Polonia research center said

* Egypt opened the Rafah border point to let stranded Palestinians leave or return to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, the Egyptian MENA news agency reported

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