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WORLD

* U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, has died at age 82, media outlets reported

* The payback period for Greece should be extended for two or three years if the country sticks to the savings targets and reform plans, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said

* The radical Islamic Taliban group denied media reports that one of its key leaders, Badruddin Haqqani, was killed last week in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan in northwest Pakistan

* Russian firefighting aircraft have been deployed to southern Europe to help fight increasingly damaging blazes triggered by a spell of very hot weather in the region, the Emergency Ministry said

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* Emergency rescue workers have evacuated almost 270 people in Russia's far east Primorye region after sudden floods following storms this weekend, the local Emergency Ministry said

* Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya is set to ask federal authorities to demarcate an administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, saying its lands are being seized, the Chechen leadership’s website said

* Two members of the female punk group Pussy Riot have fled Russia, while 12 women are still in the country, the group said in its Twitter account