* Most of North Korea's $25 million held in previously frozen accounts with a Macao bank have been transferred, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said
* Russia's top prosecutor Yury Chaika said that his office was examining London's case against Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi, accused of murdering ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, but ruled out extradition
* NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Russia's radar offer would not remove the need for a U.S. defense system in Europe
* Venezuela is close to striking a deal with Russia on the procurement of several diesel submarines for its Navy, a source in the Russian shipbuilding industry said
* Russia's Norilsk Nickel said its board of directors had approved a deal to raise $7 billion through loans and its own funds to pay for the acquisition of Canada's LionOre
* Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), plans to visit Moscow next week, a presidential spokesman said
* A North Caucasus court martial found four Russian Army officers guilty in a long-running "Ulman case" on the murder of six civilians in Chechnya, and sentenced them to prison terms of nine to 14 years
* A Russian national detained by Austrian police on allegations of spying is an employee of the Russian Space Agency, an agency spokesman said
* Russian energy giant Gazprom intends to raise its stake in Wingas, a joint venture with Germany's Wintershall, to 50%, the head of Gazprom's export arm said
* The Russian government set up a state council for nanotechnology to be chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, the government's press service said
* A regular session of the Russia-NATO Council at the level of defense ministers convened in Brussels
* Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov praised Russia-NATO cooperation, but warned against impeding it by continuously "lecturing" Russia on security issues and by implementing U.S. plans for a missile shield in Central Europe
* Artur Ryno, a teenage Russian ultra-nationalist who earlier confessed to killing 37 people withdrew his testimony, despite substantial proof of guilt, a popular Russian daily said
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Israel had agreed in principle to return historical Russian church assets in Jerusalem that it bought from Soviet authorities in a mock deal 40 years ago
* Foreign ministers of Arab League countries will hold an emergency session in Cairo Friday on the situation in Palestinian territories and Lebanon, said Secretary General Amr Moussa of the 22-nation bloc
* Russia's newly-created aluminum giant United Company RusAl said it had mandated international banks to arrange and underwrite a $2 billion seven-year loan facility with a two-year grace period
* South Korea could deliver food aid worth $20 million to Pyongyang through the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the country's unification minister said
* Russia will deliver the first two serial Su-30MKM fighters under a contract with the Royal Malaysian Air Force June 17, the Sukhoi aircraft manufacturer said
