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18:02 GMT 28.07.2009

WORLD

*Iranian authorities have refused permission to hold a ceremony in memory of those killed during post-election riots in June, the country's Fars News Agency said

*Israel has allowed a shipment of automobile fuel for general sale into the Gaza Strip for the first time in 10 months, the deputy head of the association of gas station owners said

*Members of Kyrgyzstan's opposition plan to hold demonstrations on Wednesday to protest the final results of the country's presidential elections, losing candidate Almazbek Atambayev said

* Investigators have found skull fragments believed to belong to Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze, murdered nine years ago, the country's UNIAN news agency said

*Egypt plans to open the Rafah border crossing to the Gaza Strip for three days from August 3, Egyptian media reported

RUSSIA

*The number of Russians who have contracted the A/H1N1 virus has risen to 28, Russia's sanitary watchdog said

*The number of confirmed human cases of swine flu has risen by 3,700 in the past 24 hours to 163,800 worldwide, with 998 deaths, Russia's consumer rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor said

*Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin continues his Latin American tour with his third visit to Nicaragua in the past 12 months

*Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has invited some pardoned warlords to join special operations against the remaining militant groups in Russia's troubled North Caucasus republic

*The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, who is on a 10-day tour of Ukraine, called for the reunification of Orthodox believers in Ukraine

*Russia's United Aircraft-Making Corporation (UAC) announced plans to invest 5 billion rubles ($162 mln) in the modernization of aircraft maker VASO, which produces the new An-148 medium-haul plane

*About 80% of construction projects in Russia are currently frozen due to the ongoing economic crisis, the president of the Russian Union of Developers said

*Russia's Kruzenshtern sailing ship has concluded its participation in an international regatta of tall ships, and is currently heading for Iceland's capital Reykjavik