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15:18 GMT 15.08.2009

RUSSIA

* An officer was wounded in a new bold attack on a police post in the center of Dagestan's capital, police in the southern Russian republic said

* Ingushetia's leader will have an improved armored car, when he is back to work after treatment in Moscow after an attempt on his life in June, the press secretary of the south Russian region's leader said

* Two officers injured in separate attacks on police posts in Dagestan's capital have died, a security official in the volatile southern Russian republic said

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* The tracking device aboard the Russian-crewed Arctic Sea, missing since late July, was briefly reactivated showing the vessel to be located off France, a Russian maritime journal said

* Hamas said violence between Hamas security forces and radical groups, which killed 22 people and injured around 150 overnight, was now under control

*The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide car explosion in the Afghan capital, which killed at least seven people and injured dozens more

* The United States has formally announced that it is sending a group of marines to Georgia to train its battalion for service as part of coalition forces in Afghanistan

* Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said that he is convinced military cooperation between Russia and Venezuela will continue to develop, although any decision lies with the country's leaders

* A planned Russian-Venezuelan joint venture to develop Venezuela's Junin-6 oil field, will need an estimated $30 billion in investment, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister said

*The Belarus Foreign Ministry dismissed emerging media reports that a Russian film crew has been detained and deported from the capital Minsk

SPORTS

* World No. 1 Dinara Safina gave a brilliant display in her quarterfinal match to overcome an unseeded, but on form, Kim Clijsters from Belgium at the Western & Southern Financial Group Open in Cincinnati

* Valery Borchin was crowned world champion in the 20 km walk, winning Russia's first gold medal of the IAAF World Athletic Championships in Berlin