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* The Greek opposition Party PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement) supports the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project, the party leader said

* The speaker of the lower house of Russian parliament, the State Duma, proposed on Sunday establishing a political and legal mechanism to fight drug trafficking in Afghanistan

* About 50 militants of the radical Islamist group Taliban were killed in NATO airstrikes in western Afghanistan, an Afghan army spokesman said

* Trade between Russia and Turkmenistan reached $5 billion in the first seven months of 2009, the presidents of both countries said during their meeting

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived on Sunday on a working visit to Turkmenistan to discuss energy issues with his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov

* At least 38 people were killed in a fire that broke out in a drug abuse clinic in southern Kazakhstan, the Central Asian republic's emergencies ministry said

* Israeli President Shimon Peres was hospitalized late on Saturday after he briefly passed out at a public meeting in Tel Aviv, local media reported citing his personal physician

* An 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook Venezuela's Caribbean coast, injuring at least 14 people and causing minor structural damage to several buildings, the local media reported

RUSSIA

* Top secret documents were destroyed in a fire that broke out on Sunday in a military unit in western Russia's city of Tambov, killing five and injuring seven servicemen, a security agency source said

* The Russian military has denied the existence of a new-generation main battle tank (MBT) based on T-80 design and featuring explosive reactive armor and a box-shaped turret

BUSINESS

* The Opel plant in Belgium's city of Antwerp that the company's new owner intends to close could be saved should Belgian authorities allocate 200 million euros ($290 million), Belgian media reported