| June 2008 |
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TNK-BP's Russian billionaire shareholders plan to go to court following a dispute with their British partners in the joint oil venture, a spokesman for the group said on Wednesday.
Ukraine is concerned over a Russian chemical weapons disposal plant currently being constructed 70 km (43 miles) away from its borders, the country's foreign minister said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged on Wednesday the government's support for Russian-language foreign press. 
France's Areva and Kazakhstan's national Kazatomprom have signed a deal to produce 4,000 metric tons of uranium a year until 2039, the nuclear companies said in a joint news release on Wednesday. 
Ukraine is concerned over a Russian chemical weapons disposal plant currently being constructed 70 km (43 miles) away from its borders, the country's foreign minister said on Wednesday. 
Experts from Airbus will assist in the air accident investigation into the A310 Sudan Airways crash in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, which left at least 29 dead, the air company said Wednesday. 
Iran's president said on Wednesday that the West had lost the confrontation with Tehran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

Police in south Afghanistan seized on Wednesday what is believed to be the largest amount of hashish ever discovered by law enforcement officers anywhere in the world, local officials have said. 
The Israeli Cabinet has discussed a possible truce in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, but plans will continue for a ground operation in case it fails, a spokesperson for the country's premier said Wednesday. 
A lawyer for an alleged Russian arms dealer in custody in Thailand on suspicion of illegal arms trading and other crimes, said Wednesday his client is unlikely to be extradited to the United States. 
At least 13 Pakistani border guards have been killed in a U.S. airstrike, Afghanistan's Bakhtar news agency has said. 
Russia will deploy more personnel and equipment at its air base in Kyrgyzstan, the Air Force commander told a Russian daily on Wednesday. 



