| July 2007 |
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The board chairman of Russia's natural gas monopoly said Friday the involvement of French oil major Total SA had provided a boost to the giant Shtokman natural gas project in the Arctic. 
The United States cannot deploy a missile shield in Central Europe and at the same time accept Russia's offer for the use of the Gabala radar in Azerbaijan, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday. 
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Friday a multi-polar world was the key to global security, and criticized the Bush administration's efforts to dominate world politics. 
Kanwa, a Hong Kong defense news agency, said Friday purchases by China of Russian aircraft carrier components suggested that Beijing was planning to build one or two aircraft carriers, possibly by 2015. 
The head of the Palestinian National Authority will be looking to win political support from the Russian leadership during a three-day working visit to Moscow starting July 29, a Russian political expert said Friday. 
A powerful explosion, which witnesses said was detonated by a suicide bomber close to the Red Mosque in the capital Islamabad, killed at least 10 people Friday, local television said. 
The Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital reopened for Friday prayers after a bloody army siege earlier in July that killed over 100 people. 
The launch of space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station (ISS) will go ahead as scheduled on August 7, and will not be delayed due to earlier reported sabotage, a NASA expert in Russia said Friday. 
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev accused the United Kingdom's government of creating problems for itself by trying to please only the United States at the expense of other partners. 
U.S. President George W. Bush signed Thursday a law toughening control over foreign investment in key businesses in a move to address national security concerns, and avoid foreign governments gaining control of U.S. firms. 
Russia's Progress M-59 space cargo ship will be undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) August 1 and de-orbited into the Pacific, a representative of Mission Control said Friday. 
UTair, Russia's largest helicopter operator, has sent a helicopter to Greece, where forest fires have been raging, an airline spokesman said Friday. 
The Pentagon has awarded Boeing $80 million to begin planning and building two missile defense systems to be based in Poland and the Czech Republic, a spokesman for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said. 



