* The U.S. is content with interaction with Russia on the Iranian nuclear problem, U.S. Ambassador William Burns said
* A key witness in the murder of security service defector Alexander Litvinenko said Tuesday that German prosecutors have refused to ensure his guaranteed return to Russia if he decides to travel to Germany for questioning.
* Kosovo authorities see no need to send a special UN Security Council delegation to the province to study the situation on the ground, a spokesman for the autonomy's interim government said
* The statement by the U.S. trade representative that Russia is not yet ready to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) raises questions, a Russian presidential aide said
* Serbia's war crimes court in Belgrade sentenced four Serbs to between five and 20 years in prison for the murder of six young Bosnian Muslims in July of 1995
* Federal Nuclear Power Agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko said Russia could invite Chinese, Japanese and South Korean companies to cooperate on the construction of a nuclear power plant (NPP) in its Far East
* Russia and Qatar, the world's leading gas producers, agreed to form an energy development committee at the forum of gas exporters in Doha, a local paper said
* Iranian Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who is also the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization, said a total of 50,000 centrifuges are to be installed at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in central Iran
* The Moscow Region Court sentenced two men found guilty of blowing up the Grozny-Moscow train in 2005 to 18 and 19 years in prison
* Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant will be commissioned before March 2008, Mohammad Saidi, a deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said
* The crew is to blame for the sinking of the Greek cruise ship Sea Diamond last week off a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, Greek Mercantile Marine Minister Manolis Kefalogiannis said
* Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed a new draft Constitution cutting his powers and submitted it to parliament, Prime Minister Almaz Atambayev said
* Russia will use the international nuclear watchdog's perspective in its assessment of Iran's nuclear program, Sergei Prikhodko, a presidential aide, said
* Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso said North Korea could fail to meet the deadline for its initial denuclearization commitments under a breakthrough deal with the six negotiators
* The 15th crew of the International Space Station (ISS) began settling in at the station after successfully docking with the ISS on board Soyuz TMA-10 space carrier
