| June 2008 |
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Most of the 150 illegal migrants on board a ship that recently sank in the Mediterranean have died, Egyptian media cited the Egyptian embassy in Libya as saying on Monday. 
A Russian rocket and space company has started preparing the equipment to be sent to the Kourou launch site in French Guiana, a spokesman for the Samara-based TsSKB Progress said on Monday. 
Spanish King Juan Carlos I will pay a visit to Russia on June 18-19 and will meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Kremlin press service said Monday. 
Britain will increase its military contingent in Afghanistan, by sending an extra 230 personnel to the country, Defense Secretary Des Browne said on Monday.

A lawyer for an alleged Russian arms dealer in custody in Thailand said on Monday that Thai authorities had illegally opened a criminal case against his client. 
Kosovo's new constitution is in violation of a UN Security Council Resolution, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday. 
Russia's Zvezdochka shipyard in the town of Severodvinsk on the Barents Sea could scrap Britain's decommissioned nuclear submarines, a company official said on Monday. 
Britain will increase its military contingent in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced on Monday. 
A U.S. delegation from a NATO group has arrived in Abkhazia on a two-day visit to try and restart talks between the breakaway region and Georgia, broken off in 2006, Abkhazia's Foreign Ministry said Monday. 
Sakhalin Energy said on Monday it had signed a $5.3 billion deal to finance the 2nd phase of the Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast. 
Tehran will respond to new incentives, proposed by the EU and world powers in exchange for halting its uranium enrichment program, at a convenient time for Iran, the country's Foreign Minister said on Monday.
Four Russian billionaire shareholders in TNK-BP sought to swap their 50% in the joint oil venture for a 7.6% stake in the British oil major, a Russian business daily said on Monday. 
TMK [RTS: TRMK], Russia's largest steel pipe manufacturer, said on Monday it had completed a $1.25 billion deal to buy IPSCO Tubular's U.S. assets from Swedish steel producer SSAB. 
Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez will meet on Monday with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana. 



