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WORLD

* Russian diplomats were finally given access to Russian students, who have been held in custody in Egypt for almost a week, as Cairo authorities released 10 others on Tuesday, a Russian embassy official said

* Georgia's opposition will halt its long-term demonstrations until June 9 when protests are planned to be held outside the Interior Ministry building in the capital of Tbilisi, an opposition member said

* A UN investigative team began work in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to examine claims of human rights violations that are alleged to have occurred during a three-week military offensive by Israeli troops on Gaza in January

* Brazil's Air Force said on Tuesday that it had found wreckage in the area that a missing Air France passenger plane last made contact

* Belarus has asked Russia for a $9 billion loan for the construction of the ex-Soviet republic's first nuclear power plant, a Belarusian government official said

* A recent public opinion poll gave the head of Ukraine's main opposition party, Viktor Yanukovych, a 10% lead over rivals in presidential elections scheduled for next January, the Unian agency said

* A series of bomb explosions that ripped through a bank in the town of Melitopol in southeast Ukraine have left 25 people injured, the country's interior ministry said

* More than 700 people living in villages near an active volcano in eastern Indonesia are leaving their homes after warnings of a possible eruption, local media said

* A Brazilian man said his expired passport saved his life and the life of his friend as he was not allowed to board the missing Air France plane, Brazilian media reported

* The Artek children's camp in Ukraine's Crimea has reopened after a pause of several months due to financial difficulties, the camp's director said

* El Salvador's newly elected president signed an agreement to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, hours after being sworn in

* Washington said it would not recognize last weekend's parliamentary polls in the former Georgian republic of South Ossetia, the U.S. State Department said in a statement

RUSSIA

* Over 40 defendants accused of involvement in a 2005 attack by militants on the southern Russian city of Nalchik launched a hunger strike on Tuesday demanding hospital treatment for a fellow suspect

* There is no possibility of cutoffs of natural gas supplies to Ukraine now that a 10-year supply contract has been signed, Gazprom's chief executive said

* Russian news agencies RIA Novosti and Interfax have launched a joint project set to cover important national news in around 600 regional media

* Russia's chief doctor Gennady Onishchenko said on Tuesday that swine flu is not aggressive enough to cause a worldwide pandemic

* Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, urged Iran on Tuesday to demonstrate to the international community that its nuclear program was peaceful

* The international community should give a "strong" response to North Korea's nuclear test, Russia's UN envoy said in an interview with a Russian government daily

BUSINESS

* PGNiG has signed a contract to buy an extra $300 million of natural gas from an export arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, a spokeswoman for Poland's gas monopoly said

* Japan's Nissan Motor Company opened on Tuesday a car plant in St. Petersburg at a ceremony attended by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

SPORT

* Russian world No. 1 Dinara Safina was forced to battle her way to the semifinals of the French Open on Tuesday after a thrilling three-setter against Victoria Azarenko from Belarus