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18:01 GMT 14.07.2009

WORLD

* Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a coup in late June, said he will consider talks with interim leaders a "failure" unless he is reinstated in the next round of negotiations

* Bolivian President Evo Morales has accused the United States of being behind the military coup in Honduras, Latin American media reported

* Two Israeli Defense Force (IDF) warships have crossed the Suez Canal, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, according to media reports

* NATO states started in the Baltic states a series of air defense exercises involving Czech fighter jets, the Estonian Defense Ministry said

* The European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, arrived in Kosovo as part of his Balkan tour, to discuss strengthening ties with the former Serbian province

* Ukraine should build relations with Russia on principles of equality without sacrificing national interests, which would require a "resetting," the Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, said

* Kiev welcomed the launch of the Nabucco gas pipeline project intended to pump gas to Europe bypassing Russia and said it was ready to join, a deputy head of the Ukrainian president's secretariat said

* Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said Russia is refusing to hold talks with Kiev on the delimitation of the Kerch Strait

* The launch of space shuttle Endeavour has been put back once again until Wednesday due to bad weather around the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, NASA said

* Japanese scientists released a report that says people who were born before the 1918 flu pandemic have immunity to swine flu

* Michael Jackson's former wife, Debbie Rowe, has given up custody rights over their two children for a reported $4 million, the New York Post quoted a family source as saying

* Two people were killed and 20 injured when a minibus and a car collided head-on in Crimea, southern Ukraine, the press service of the local traffic police department said in a statement

* Production of the world-famous Darjeeling tea in northeast India has been brought to a standstill by a strike led by an ethnic Nepali separatist group, national media said

RUSSIA

* Russia has test-launched a second Sineva intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine, the chief of the General Staff said

* Russian and foreign volunteers said they felt well after a 105-day experiment to simulate a flight to Mars at the Institute of Medical and Biological Studies in Moscow

* Russia’s Kruzenshtern sailing ship has left the U.S. port of Boston and headed for Canada’s Halifax, taking part in the final stage of an international tall ships regatta

* Drought has destroyed about 7% of crops in several major Russian grain-growing regions equal to an area of some 3.2 million hectares, the Agriculture Ministry said

* The last living daughter of Feodor Chaliapin, Russia's most famous opera singer of the 20th century, died in Rome at the age of 98, a spokeswoman for a Moscow museum said

BUSINESS

* The U.S. budget deficit has ballooned this financial year to exceed $1 trillion for the first time, the Treasury Department has announced

* Sberbank, Russia's largest retail savings bank, said its net profit calculated to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) declined 98%, year-on-year, in January-March 2009 to 0.6 billion rubles ($18.5 million)

* The oil company Slavneft, ranked among Russia's top ten crude producers, posted a 4.8% drop in oil output in the first half of 2009 to 9.4 million metric tons (69 mln bbl)