(Adds paras 3–8)

// Oct. 06, 2007 - 09:15 GMT

MOSCOW, October 6 (RIA Novosti) – The 2007 Kremlin Cup tennis tournament, which kicks off Saturday in Moscow, proves that Russia has vast experience in hosting major international sports events, the Russian president said.

// Oct. 06, 2007 - 09:53 GMT

CAIRO, October 6 (RIA Novosti) – Two Egyptian nationals were killed and nine Russian tourists were hospitalized following a traffic accident in a tunnel under the Suez Canal, 150 kilometers (90 miles) from Cairo, a local source said.

// Oct. 06, 2007 - 10:24 GMT

DUSHANBE, October 6 (RIA Novosti) – Tajikistan will hold a rotating chair in the Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec) in 2008 and its leader will supervise the work of the organization, the Russian president said Saturday.

// Oct. 06, 2007 - 11:21 GMT

MOSCOW, October 6 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian women basketball team is set to meet Saturday Latvia in the semifinal match of the 2007 Eurobasket Women Championship in Italy.

// Oct. 06, 2007 - 12:06 GMT

KHABAROVSK, October 6 (RIA Novosti) – Rescuers in the Russian Far East found Saturday a body of a fourth passenger from a utility helicopter that crashed two days ago into the sea near the western coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia's Far East.

// Oct. 06, 2007 - 12:28 GMT

(Adds details, background in paras 3–10)

// Oct. 06, 2007 - 12:47 GMT

(Changes figure in headline, lead, recasts)

// Oct. 06, 2007 - 13:29 GMT

(Adds detail's, Rapota's appointment, Putin's quotes in paras. 2–8)

// Oct. 06, 2007 - 14:07 GMT

DUSHANBE, October 6 (RIA Novosti) – Next year Armenia will hold a rotating presidency in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the president of Kyrgyzstan, which currently chairs the CSTO, said Saturday.

// Oct. 06, 2007 - 14:33 GMT