| June 2008 |
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The life of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was targeted during recent trips to Rome and Baghdad, a presidential aide said on Monday. 
Six Russians are to be the initial clients of the world's first space travel agency, Virgin Galactic, which is to launch suborbital passenger flights in 2010. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday expressed condolences to the people of the Philippines, where a powerful typhoon has claimed at least 229 lives. 
A nuclear-armed Iran is "unacceptable", French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the Israeli parliament on Monday. 
Australia will not lift its ban on uranium exports to India until New Delhi signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Indian media reported Monday. 
The Russian government will spend 120.6 billion rubles ($5 billion) on the development of the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya over the next four years, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. 
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will discuss a number of issues during its summer session on June 23-27 in Strasbourg, including Kosovo, Georgia's elections, Azerbaijan and recent poll protests in Armenia.

Moscow may propose that Ukraine raises the rent for Russia's Black Sea Fleet base in the Crimean peninsula after the current agreement expires in 2017, a Russian deputy foreign minister said in an interview on Monday. 
Russia is not opposed to an EU mission replacing the UN force in Kosovo, but the move should have the formal backing of the UN Security Council and Serbia, a senior Russian diplomat said on Monday. 
Iran is ready to discuss new incentives to halt its controversial nuclear program but only if the West reviews Tehran's proposals to solve global problems, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. 
The U.S. Navy has sent a ship to assist in a search for survivors in central Philippines where a ferry carrying over 860 people sank during a typhoon, the national PNA news agency said on Monday. 



