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19:59 GMT 26.08.2013

WORLD

* UN chemical weapons experts reached the site of an alleged poison gas attack outside Damascus hours after their convoy came under sniper fire

* Military intervention in Syria would be a “most brazen violation of international legislation” if held without the UN’s backing, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said

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* Georgia has sent a note of protest to Moscow over the Russian president’s visit to a resort town in the Georgian breakaway republic of Abkhazia, the country’s foreign minister has said

* The CEO of Russian fertilizer firm Uralkali, one of the world’s largest producers of potash fertilizer, has been detained in Minsk and charged with abuse of power, a spokesman for the Belarusian Investigative Committee said

* Russian designers are proceeding with development of an unmanned “sixth-generation” fighter jet, former Air Force chief Pyotr Deinekin said

* The Kremlin will give grants to the Memorial human rights organization and several other opposition-minded NGOs that prosecutors earlier this year accused of being “foreign agents,” the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti reported

* A Greenpeace ship had to abandon its peaceful protest in the Arctic after Russian border guards threatened to shoot it, the environmental group said