| January 2008 |
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Russian energy giant Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] is planning to offer Tehran new prospects of oil and gas cooperation, Iran's oil minister said on Tuesday. 
The Moscow City Court upheld on Tuesday a ruling of a lower court ordering British Airways to pay former NHL star Russian Pavel Bure 67,000 rubles ($2,600) in compensation for financial and moral damages. 
At least four Lebanese died and 20 were wounded in an explosion reportedly targeting a U.S. Embassy car in northern Beirut on Tuesday, national media said. Lebanese security officials said no foreigners were killed.

The number of deaths caused by freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall in Afghanistan in the past few days reached 120 on Tuesday. 
Three activists charged with public order offenses following last spring's riots in Tallinn over the removal of a Soviet-era war memorial denied on Tuesday all charges against them. 
The Russian Foreign Ministry received on Tuesday an official invitation to the inauguration of Georgia's re-elected President Mikheil Saakashvili, scheduled for January 20. 
Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday described as ungrounded a decision to freeze Russian assets in France following a suit by Swiss firm Noga, but said the situation would be settled legally. 
Twenty people from Russia's Chechen Republic were detained in Poland attempting to illegally cross the border into Germany on Tuesday, the national border service said. 
Thousands of opposition supporters rallied on Tuesday in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, denouncing the results of the January 5 presidential election and demanding a runoff. 
"Such threats can only make matters worse," Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in the statement. "It is not in the interests of either the U.K. or Russia for flourishing cultural, educational and scientific links to be held hostage to unrelated issues in this way." 
The European Union is likely to wait until February to launch a police and justice mission in Kosovo, so as not to influence elections in Serbia, media in Brussels reported on Tuesday. 



