* The situation on the eve of a new round of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program gives no hope for a meeting of foreign ministers from six nations in the near future, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Alexander Losyukov said
* A Tu-134 plane that crashed in southern Russia Saturday killing six people was in good technical condition, the air company UTAir that owns the plane said
* UTAir confirmed its intention to pay $75,000 to each family of those killed in the plane crash in southern Russia
* Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia held the second round of parliamentary elections
* The Abkhaz security service said a blast in the unrecognized republic's Gala district was unrelated to the repeat parliamentary poll in the separatist region
* Three people have died and twenty-six others have been injured after a bus capsized in a road accident in southern Russia, the press secretary of the region's fire safety service said
