| July 2007 |
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Kosovo Albanians demand the international community set a deadline for a decision over the Serbian province's status, the prime minister of the provisional government, said on Kosovo radio, a Belgrade news agency reported. 
A Chinese contractor will start building the Beijing branch of Russia's East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline in 2008, the Russian industry and energy minister said Monday. 
The U.S. Senate could freeze funding for the deployment of missile shield elements in Central Europe, despite recent statements made by the U.S. Secretary of State, a senior Russian senator said Monday.
A major Ukrainian-U.S. naval exercise, involving staff officers and observers from 13 nations, started Monday in the Odessa Region, in the Black Sea, amid protests by local left-wing political groups. 
The Pakistani government sent a delegation to the besieged Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) Monday in an effort to persuade mosque leader Abdul Rashid Gazi to surrender to authorities. 
NASA will launch space shuttle Endeavor to the International Space Station (ISS) in August, while Russia's manned Soyuz rocket is scheduled for lift off in October, Russia's space agency said Monday. 
A Russian nuclear expert said Monday that, with as many centrifuges as the head of the international nuclear watchdog says Iran has, it would take Iran five to 10 years to create a bomb. 
Ukraine's IBF Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko (48-3, 43 KO's), who defeated Saturday Lamon Brewster from the United States in a 6 round TKO said he plans to fight another champion. 
Ukraine lifted Monday its entry ban on a number of well-known Russians, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said, citing "a need for further development in Russian-Ukrainian relations."

Chechen separatist envoy Akhmed Zakayev said claims by a former major in the Russian tax police and self-confessed spy, that he cooperated with MI6 are ridiculous, the Kommersant daily quoted him as saying Monday. 
Russia's state-controlled oil company Rosneft [RTS: ROSN] said Monday it had signed a strategic partnership agreement with Royal Dutch Shell on the prospective implementation of joint oil and gas projects. 



