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Ukraine offers to build new cruise missile engines for Russia
05.07.2008 10:33
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Motor Sich, Ukraine's largest manufacturer of aircraft and rocket engines, has offered Russia to manufacture a new engine for Russian cruise missiles, the head of the company said on Saturday.
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Iran warns of sharp increase in oil prices if attacked
05.07.2008 09:22
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Global oil prices will jump to unprecedented levels in case of any aggression against Iran, the country's oil minister said on Saturday. Some Western media have long been circulating rumors of an 'imminent" attack on the Islamic Republic planned by either the United States or Israel in order to force Tehran to abandon its controversial uranium enrichment program.
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Abkhaz leader says Georgia planned to invade Abkhazia in spring -2
05.07.2008 09:22
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Sergei Bagapsh, the leader of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia said on Saturday that Georgia had plans to attack and invade the region in April-May this year.
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Russia may stop oil exports through Baltic states by 2015
05.07.2008 07:27
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Russia may completely stop by 2015 using ports in the Baltic states to transport energy supplies abroad via sea routes, the transportation minister said on Saturday.
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Abkhaz leader says Georgia planned to invade Abkhazia in spring
05.07.2008 07:27
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Sergei Bagapsh, the leader of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia said on Saturday that Georgia had plans to attack and invade the region in April-May this year.
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One serviceman killed, several injured in South Russia attacks
05.07.2008 07:27
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At least one serviceman was killed, and several others wounded on Saturday in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia after a truck convoy with federal troops came under gunfire, a local police source said.
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Lebanon to announce new Cabinet on July 5 - media
05.07.2008 07:27
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Lebanon's prime minister, Fouad Siniora, will announce on Saturday the composition of a new national unity government, the Al Jazeera television channel said.
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Powerful quake hits Kamchatka; no damage or tsunami threat
05.07.2008 04:31
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An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale was registered early Saturday off the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia's Far East, the regional emergencies ministry office said.
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Russia begins military exercises in volatile N. Caucasus region
05.07.2008 04:31
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Russia began Saturday large-scale military exercises in several regions of the Southern Federal District, which includes highly volatile North Caucasus republics, a senior military official said.
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