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16:11 GMT 27.06.2009

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* NATO hopes that military cooperation with Russia will be resumed after Saturday's Russia-NATO Council session on the Greek island of Corfu, the alliance said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev returned from his trip to Africa on Saturday, declaring that such a visit should have been made sooner but it was not too late for Russia to play a role on the continent

* A group of about 50 Russian women protested on Saturday outside the government building in Gaza about the difficulties in obtaining exit visas to leave the territory

* The Brazilian Navy and Air Force has ended efforts to find more bodies or debris from the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic almost four weeks ago

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday urged security agencies to be tough on bandits and said the assassination attempt on Ingushetia's president demanded a response

* One of the people injured in the car bomb attack on Ingushetia's president died in hospital early on Saturday in the southern Russian republic, a hospital source told RIA Novosti

BUSINESS

* Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has backed the participation of Royal Dutch-Shell in the Sakhalin III and IV projects

RELIGION

* The Russian Orthodox Church is marking on Saturday the day of the prophet Elisha, a disciple of the prophet Elijah, with divine services around the country commemorating the miracle-working Old Testament saint