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18:01 GMT 14.08.2009

RUSSIA

* The situation around the missing Arctic Sea cargo ship that has reportedly been traced to a location outside Cape Verde is "dramatic," Russia's NATO envoy, Dmitry Rogozin, said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he saw no prospects of bilateral ties improving with Ukraine in the future, but stressed that Russia was not to blame for the current situation

* Two police officers were killed and one injured in two separate attacks on police posts in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan overnight

* The number of people infected with swine flu in Russia has risen to 156, the country's chief sanitary official, Gennady Onishchenko, told Ekho Moskvy radio

* An official farewell ceremony for a strategic nuclear submarine from the Russian Northern Fleet was held at the Zvezdochka shipyard in northern Russia

* President Barack Obama has banned U.S. Air Force planes from participating in MAKS-2009 air show in Russia citing the ongoing economic crisis, the show organizer said

WORLD

* At least 21 people have died and at least seven are missing in torrential rains and floods in the wake of Typhoon Etau, which hit western Japan earlier this week, Japan's Mainichi daily said

* NATO forces thwarted an attempt by Somali pirates to hijack a Turkish merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden, Turkish maritime authorities said

* Thai prosecutors representing Washington in the trial of Russian businessman Viktor Bout have lodged an appeal against the court's refusal to extradite him to the U.S., according to Bout's lawyer

SPORTS

* Dutch trainer Dick Advocaat, dismissed by Zenit St. Petersburg after a series of poor results, paid a final visit to the club, the Russian side said on its official website