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* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

- The attempts to detect "foul play" in Russia's proposals for a new European security treaty are a display

- Russia is not jealous of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline project

- A theory implicating Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov in the murder of human rights activist Natalya Estemirova is "primitive"

* Pakistan promised India to take all necessary measures to bring those behind last November's attack on the Indian city of Mumbai to justice

* Relief workers at the crash site of a Tu-154 airliner in Iran said the force of the impact and subsequent fire meant there was no way to identify the victims, the Fars news agency reported

* Iranian Atomic Energy Organization head Gholam Reza Aghazadeh has resigned, the Iranian news agency ISNA reported

* North Korea is currently filming the first biopic about leader Kim Jong Il, amid South Korean reports that his health is failing, the country's state media reported

* Iran has the capacity to build a nuclear bomb and conduct a nuclear test similar to North Korea's by the end of this year, a popular German magazine has said

* Azerbaijan has conducted a planned rotation of its peacekeeping contingent in Afghanistan, replacing 43 peacekeepers, the country's Defense Ministry said

* The sixth Harry Potter movie has grossed $58.4 million from U.S. theaters on the first opening day, Variety said

RUSSIA

* A farewell ceremony was held in the Chechen capital of Grozny for murdered human rights activist Natalya Estemirova

* A scheduled test of Russia's new Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on July 15 was a failure, the Defense Ministry's press service said

* Fifteen gunmen were killed and two detained in a special operation on the border between Russia's North Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia, a deputy interior minister said

* The Volga-Dnepr Group, Russia's largest heavy air freight carrier, is planning to take part in the transit of U.S. military supplies to Afghanistan, the company said