Progress cargo space ship to dock with ISS - mission control

MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) – The Progress M-61 cargo space ship launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on August 2 will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday night, Russia's mission control said.

// Aug. 05, 2007 - 08:45 GMT

Fifteen killed in road crash in northwest Kazakhstan

ASTANA, August 5 (RIA Novosti) – Fifteen people have been killed and another five injured after a car collided with a minivan in the Aktyubinsk region in northwestern Kazakhstan, the emergencies ministry of the Central Asian republic said Sunday.

// Aug. 05, 2007 - 09:14 GMT

Two militants killed in western Chechnya

GROZNY, August 5 (RIA Novosti) – Two militants have been killed in a shootout with local police in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, the republic's interior ministry said Sunday.

// Aug. 05, 2007 - 09:59 GMT

Iran says will continue uranium enrichment activity

TEHRAN, August 5 (RIA Novosti) – Iran does not intend to suspend its uranium enrichment program, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Sunday.

// Aug. 05, 2007 - 10:54 GMT

Britain to inspect research labs after foot and mouth outbreak

LONDON, August 5 (RIA Novosti) – The foot and mouth disease strain found in Surrey is identical to strains used in research laboratories located several miles from where cattle were infected, Britain's department for agriculture (Defra) said Sunday.

// Aug. 05, 2007 - 11:58 GMT

Russia to launch serial production of Bulava ballistic missile

SEVASTOPOL, August 5 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has made a decision to start serial production of its new Bulava-M sea-launched ballistic missile, following a successful test launch in late June, the Russian Navy commander said Sunday.

// Aug. 05, 2007 - 12:15 GMT

Russia to launch serial production of Bulava ballistic missile -1

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// Aug. 05, 2007 - 12:26 GMT

One killed, one injured as blast hits a ship in Far Eastern port

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, August 5 (RIA Novosti) – One person has been killed and another injured after a blast hit a fishing vessel in a port in Russia's Far East, the regional emergencies department said Sunday.

// Aug. 05, 2007 - 12:43 GMT

Main news of August 5

* Russia has made a decision to start serial production of its new Bulava-M sea-launched ballistic missile, following a successful test launch in late June, Vladimir Masorin, the Russian Navy commander, said

// Aug. 05, 2007 - 15:02 GMT