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18:04 GMT 03.06.2009

WORLD

* Russia's prime minister warned on Wednesday that natural gas pumped via Ukraine to Europe could be cut off by early July if Ukraine fails to pay for its gas, and urged the EU to intervene

* The first Brazilian Navy vessel has reached the area of the Atlantic where debris has been found from an Air France plane that went missing earlier this week, a Navy spokesman said

* Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has accused U.S. President Barack Obama of inflaming hatred towards the U.S. in the Muslim world in a recent video tape aired by the Al Jazeera TV channel

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed on Wednesday that a meeting of the Russia-NATO council at the level of foreign ministers will be held on June 27 on the Greek island of Corfu

* Iran has proposed buying all of the natural gas produced at an Azerbaijani gas field in the Caspian Sea, the South Caucasus republic's energy and fuel minister said

* Moldova's new parliament failed to elect a president in the second and final attempt on Wednesday and will face dissolution, paving the way for a new general election

* Israel has no plans to launch a missile attack on Iran despite the global threat of Tehran's nuclear program, the foreign minister said

* The U.S. government has admitted to accidentally publishing "highly confidential" information on hundreds of civilian nuclear sites, including detailed maps showing fuel stockpiles, on the internet

* India's lower house of parliament has for the first time elected a woman as its speaker, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced

* Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has alleged that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was planning to shoot down his plane, Latin American press agencies reported

* About 930 coal miners from the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine continued their protest in front of the country's government building

* Brazilian Vice President Jose Alenca has declared three days of mourning for 228 passengers and crew missing and presumed dead after an Air France plane crashed into the Atlantic on Monday

RUSSIA

* A final decision on conflicting territorial claims on the Arctic seabed must be made by the United Nations, the Russian foreign minister said

* A new UN Security Council resolution on North Korea will include additional sanctions against the communist regime but will not introduce an economic embargo, Russia's UN envoy said

* More than 40% of the Russian Defense Ministry budget is spent on the Navy, particularly on the development of strategic nuclear forces, a deputy prime minister said

BUSINESS

* A Moscow court rejected on Wednesday an appeal from Norway's Telenor to suspend an order to pay $1.728 billion to Russia's second largest mobile phone operator VimpelCom, in which it holds 29.9%

* Participants in the project to lay the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea are ready to alter the route in line with Finland's environmental concerns, the Russian prime minister said

* Russian uranium trader Tekhsnabexport and U.S. firm Exelon have signed a contract to supply enriched uranium covering 2014-2020, a spokesman for Russian nuclear holding Atomenergoprom said