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RUSSIA

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Ukraine had not presented any evidence to back up its claims that Russian diplomats were involved in espionage

* The Russian, Tajik, Afghan and Pakistani presidents called on the international community on Thursday to take additional steps to fight drug trafficking

* Moscow dismissed on Thursday comments by a U.S. administration official suggesting that Russia could become a member of NATO

* A total of 35 people have been diagnosed with the swine flu virus in Russia, the country's chief sanitary official said

* A converted Russian ICBM has placed six scientific and commercial foreign satellites into orbit, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said

* Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov said he is preparing to return to work a little over a month after surviving an assassination attempt

WORLD

* Police in the Spanish resort of Majorca have deactivated a second bomb close to the site of a blast at a police barracks that killed two officers earlier on Thursday on the island, Sky News said

* Spanish security services closed down the airport and all sea ports on the resort island of Majorca following a terrorist attack that killed two policemen, the El Mundo newspaper said

* A new task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet has arrived in the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy off the Somali coast, a fleet spokesman said

* Indonesia has put off until 2011 plans to buy two submarines and several warplanes due to financial problems, the Antara national news agency reported

* South Korea has urged North Korea to release a fishing boat carrying four crewmembers that was seized earlier on Thursday

* Snap parliamentary elections in Moldova complied with international standards, the head of OSCE observers said

* A cholera epidemic which has killed over 4,000 people since last August in Zimbabwe is over, the country's health minister said

* Moroccan King Mohammed VI has amnestied about 24,000 prisoners to mark the 10th anniversary of his coronation, the Arabic Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported

* The Kyrgyz Constitutional Court ruled that last week's presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan were carried out in line with the country's constitution

BUSINESS

* Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said military aircraft will continue to dominate the company's foreign sales in 2009, and will total about $2.6 billion

* The Russian government has approved the main parameters of the federal budget for 2010-2012, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said