| July 2007 |
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Some 10,000 people have been evacuated from two major islands on Spain's Canaries swept by forest fires, a local government spokesman said Tuesday. 
Russia has appointed the foreign minister's special representative for the Balkans as special envoy to a troika as part of the Kosovo Contact Group, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Russia does not plan to meet with the leadership of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas any time soon, First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov said Tuesday. 
The Bush administration's plans to sell modern weaponry and increase military assistance to its allies in the Middle East are aimed at exerting pressure on Iran and strengthening the Republicans' positions on the domestic front, Russian experts said Tuesday. 
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday Russia would give its backing to Mahmoud Abbas as the legitimate Palestinian leader. 
Russia is against setting artificial timetables to decide Kosovo's status and attempts to predetermine the outcome, the Foreign Ministry's spokesman said Tuesday.

The second stage of the joint air defense exercise of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will be held at the Ashuluk training ground, in Russia's Astrakhan Region near the Caspian Sea, August 14-21, Russia's Air Force spokesman said Tuesday. 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived Tuesday in the Philippine capital, Manila, for international talks focused on Southeast Asian nations, and bilateral talks with the host country. 
Medical staff who re-used disposable medical equipment during blood transfusions led to the infection of 11 people with HIV in southern Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian state's health minister said Tuesday. 



