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NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Tuesday Russia should pull its unarmed railroad troops out of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. 
One Iranian national was killed and another two wounded as they attempted to illegally cross the border with Azerbaijan early on Tuesday, the Lider Azerbaijani TV channel said. 
A Dutch owner of a ship hijacked off the Somali coast in late May denied comments Tuesday that the pirates had demanded a $1.1 million ransom for the vessel, Dutch radio said. 
The presidents of Russia and Georgia discussed over the telephone Tuesday a recent spat over Russian railroad troops carrying out repairs on tracks in a Georgian breakaway region, the Kremlin said.
Iran's president told a UN-sponsored summit in Rome on Tuesday that "powerful capitalists," who are trying to stop the development of nuclear energy, are to blame for high oil and food prices. 
NATO's secretary general will discuss Ukraine's bid to join the alliance's Membership Action Plan (MAP) at a North Atlantic Council meeting in Kiev on June 16-17, a deputy head of the presidential secretariat said on Tuesday. 
Russia's anti-monopoly service could sue a British-American tobacco company for misleading advertising, featuring a disputed territory, a senior watchdog official said on Tuesday. 
Russia and Saudi Arabia signed on Tuesday a protocol on the conclusion of bilateral talks on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. 
Russia's lower house of parliament is to bring to the attention of the country's leadership Ukraine's 'unfriendly' policies in a statement on Wednesday. 
If a decision is made, Russian naval ships are ready to head for the Somali coast where pirates recently seized a Dutch ship, an aide to the Russian Navy commander said Tuesday. 
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday the country's railroad troops repairing track in a Georgian rebel region are working in strict compliance with bilateral agreements. 
Iran intends to build an oil pipeline to run across its territory to pump crude to global markets, Hossein Noghrehkar Shirazi, an Iranian deputy oil minister said on Tuesday. 



