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Main news of April 30

22:12 30/04/2008

RUSSIA

* Russia will keep its relations with Iran unchanged after president-elect Dmitry Medvedev takes office, outgoing president Vladimir Putin said in a message to Iran's leader

* DNA tests carried out on bone fragments exhumed in the Urals last July have confirmed that they belong to two of the last Russian tsar's children, the region's governor said

* Georgia's move to block talks on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization over Russian support for Georgian breakaway regions is unjustified, Moscow's chief WTO negotiator told the Kommersant business daily

* Yemen has endorsed a Russia-proposed concept for ensuring security in the Persian Gulf, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after talks with his Yemeni counterpart, Abu Bakr Abdallah al-Qirbi

* Lenfilm, Russia's oldest film studio, celebrated its 90th anniversary

* The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay around $95,000 in compensation to residents of a Siberian town over the length of time taken to consider claims connected to a 1990s radiation leak, a local NGO official said


WORLD

* Moscow's decision to increase the amount of Russian peacekeeping troops in the Georgian breakaway republic of Abkhazia is undermining Georgia's territorial integrity, a NATO spokesman said

* A senior Russian government official said  after talks with the Iranian leadership that the Islamic Republic was not developing nuclear weapons

* Six-party negotiations on North Korea's nuclear program could resume in late May, South Korean media said

* Iranian cooperation with Russia is aimed at ensuring regional stability and security, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a meeting with Russia's acting Security Council chief

* A coalition of 12 small Palestinian factions agreed in principle to accept conditions of a ceasefire with Israel, mediated by Egypt, the MENA news agency reported

* Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert held talks with King Abdullah of Jordan on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process during an unexpected visit to Jordan

* One Palestinian militant was killed and three other people, including a child, were wounded in an Israeli missile strike on southern Gaza, local radio reported

* Georgia's Foreign Ministry confirmed that Russian military hardware and troops had already crossed the border into the breakaway republic of Abkhazia and called the move "an act of aggression"

* Belarus's Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires in Minsk, Jonathan Moore, and handed him a list of U.S. diplomats considered personae non gratae by the former Soviet state

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