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In Berlin, a rarity plane crash villages. june 19, 21:09. BERLIN, June 19. The plane, which turned out to rarity of the American car since the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, made an emergency landing near the Berlin airport "Schönefeld". As the "Echo of Moscow" referring to agency DPA, on board the plane were 28 people. Seven of them, including three crew members were injured. The wounded were taken to hospital. Their lives are out of danger. According to the preliminary version of the cause of the emergency landing was the technical fault plane Douglas DC-3. When boarding the plane touched the fence, the car came off one wing, said publication.

Exiled Rwanda general wounded in S.Africa shooting. 19 Jun 2010 20:20:21 GMT. JOHANNESBURG, June 19 (Reuters) - An exiled Rwandan general was shot and wounded in South Africa on Saturday in what his wife called a Rwandan-backed assassination attempt, a charge the Kigali government dismissed as "preposterous". Lieutenant-General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa was in the intensive care unit of a Johannesburg hospital after being shot in the stomach, Rosette Kayumba told Reuters Television. Once a close confidant of President Paul Kagame, Nyamwasa fled to South Africa this year after falling out with the president, later accusing him of using an anti-corruption campaign to frame opponents. Nyamwasa's wife said she, her husband, their children and a driver had returned home from a shopping trip when an armed man approached their car and shot her husband. Her husband and the driver got out of the car and scuffled with the gunman before he fled, she said. She said doctors told her her husband would survive. Kayumba said she believed Kagame was behind the attack, and ruled out an attempted robbery or carjacking because the gunman targeted only her husband and did not try to steal the car. "He must be behind this, I don't have proof... but we've been harassed for such a long time," she said of Kagame. Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan foreign minister and government spokeswoman, told Reuters by telephone: "Not only do I deny it, I think it's preposterous for Mrs Nyamwasa to be making that kind of comment." She added: "The Rwandan government does not go around shooting innocent citizens...The time when presidents and governments went around assassinating their citizens is over in Rwanda." TOP AIDE. The flight of Nyamwasa, who fought alongside Kagame to end the 1994 genocide in the central African nation, was a sign of a growing rift between the president and some of his top aides.
During and after the war to end the genocide, Nyamwasa held a number of key positions, including army chief of staff and head of the country's intelligence services. Rwanda is due to hold a presidential election in August, which Kagame is widely expected to win. The United States has toughened its stance on the country, saying it is concerned about democratic freedom there. In the run-up to elections, Rwanda has suspended two independent newspapers, arrested a high-profile opposition figure and prevented two opposition parties from registering, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson told the U.S. Congress this year. Rwandan authorities link Nyamwasa and another fugitive senior officer in South Africa to a series of deadly grenade attacks in the capital this year, and accuse him of nepotism and unlawful accumulation of wealth. He has rejected the charges and said the president has used his anti-corruption campaign to frame opponents. "If accountability is going to be used as a political weapon to frame perceived opponents, then it ceases to be meaningful or useful," Nyamwasa said in a statement printed in the Ugandan newspaper the Monitor in May.

Ukraine is ready for everything, so there was no "South Stream". June 19, 2010 | 12:40
Ukraine is ready to compromise with Russia and the European Union to avoid building "South Stream".
The broadcast Channel 5, Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov. "If we do not soon resolve this issue, and Russia still starts with the European Union to build a second bypass pipeline South Stream, we lose a lot. That is why we now proceed with a serious offer, with compromises, stress, with very interesting proposal for the EU and the Russians, and hope that they will be considered and on which decisions will "- said the Prime Minister. He stressed that his visit to Luxembourg, June 15 discussed the issue of gas transportation consortium involving the EU and Russia, informs UNIAN. "The EU expressed interest in creating such a consortium. It could be based on major principles. The first principle of the EU - guaranteed to Russia for years, for example, for ten years, guarantee purchases of Russian gas. The Russian side offers Ukraine guarantees that the volume of gas purchased by the EU, it prokachuvatyme through our GTS. Then we have, in the EU and Russia appears incentive for investment in upgrading our GTS. That is, there is real basis for a company in which equal fates will include the EU and Russia, and Naftogaz remain crucial package of GTS. Such a scheme was proposed.EU treated her with understanding ", - he said. He also noted that the June 16 Cabinet approved a draft law on the gas market. "In fact, our government (approval of the bill - Ed.) Opened the way for reform of Naftogaz and the creation of its new base formation. As events develop - see "- said the prime minister of Ukraine. He said that recently the Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Boyko hold talks in Brussels and in Moscow with the modernization of the GTS. "I think that soon we will find consensus" - said Azarov. As announced earlier ForUm, Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said in an interview with BBC B, that Ukraine is ready to consider the participation of the EU and Russia in the management and modernization of Ukraine's GTS in exchange for guarantees of gas transportation.

Suicide blasts kill 26 at Iraqi state-sector bank. 1:12pm BST. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide car bombers attacked the Trade Bank of Iraq Sunday, killing at least 26 people, an Interior Ministry source said. The blasts wounded 53 people at one of the public sector's most active financial institutions, which is at the forefront of efforts to encourage foreign investment in Iraq as the sectarian violence that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion fades. Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim al-Moussawi said two cars packed with around 80 kilograms of explosives each were driven at the main gates of the Trade Bank of Iraq and detonated on striking blastwalls protecting the building. He put the initial death toll at 18, but an Interior Ministry source said later it had risen to 26. The building was badly damaged and several bank guards were killed. A bank employee who asked not to be identified said the damage and death toll would have been worse had the bank's guards not protected it and its windows not consisted of shatterproof glass. At least two of the dead were police officers guarding a nearby Interior Ministry office that issues Iraqi identity cards, ministry sources said. "I feel so sorry for what is happening to my country," said Mahmoud Asi, who was wounded along with his wife in the blast near his home. Blood stained his clothes. "All the bank's guards were killed," he said.

St Pete forum brings 15bn euros worth of contracts. Jun 20, 2010 17:18 Contracts at this year’s St Petersburg economic forum which ended in Russia’s second biggest city on Sunday should bring this country 15 billion euros in foreign investment. Some 700 companies and 4 thousand officials and business executives from a hundred countries took part. Talks at the forum between President Dmitri Medvedev and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy produced agreements to cooperate in oil and gas, transport and aerospace. The Kremlin aide Arkady Dvorkovich calls attention to the fact that the agenda in St Petersburg was focused on investment in education, innovation and fundamental research – three fields described by President Medvedev as key engines of economic recovery for any country.

Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:16pm BST. Louisiana (Reuters) - BP estimates that a worst-case scenario rate for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill could be about 100,000 barrels of oil per day, according to an internal company document released on Sunday by a senior U.S. congressional Democrat. Its estimate of up to 100,000 barrels (4.2 million gallons/15.9 million litres) of oil per day is far higher than the current U.S. government estimate of up to 60,000 barrels (2.5 million gallons/9.5 million litres) gushing daily from the ruptured offshore well into the sea.

Yemen militants kill 11 during attack on intelligence building. Al-Qaida suspected in raid to free detainees in Aden that left seven government agents and four civilians dead
Associated Press. Sunday 20 June 2010 10.45 BST. The attack yesterday on the heavily protected security complex killed 11 and raised concerns over the ability of Yemen's weak central government to deal with militants. The headquarters of the powerful intelligence agency is located in a neighbourhood of government offices overlooking the sea, flanked by the state television building and a branch of the transport ministry. A witness said the gunmen, in military uniforms, approached the building after parking their old sedan and a minibus at the nearby historic Crescent hotel. The witness said they fired rocket-propelled grenades and threw hand grenades at the building's entrance before charging inside. In the course of the half hour fight, said the witness, a number of the guards threw down their weapons and fled. The attackers escaped with several detainees, leaving the building on fire.

Mega-boxship and tanker-aframax collided in Med. Sunday, June 20, 2010. On June 20 in Mediterranean off Gibraltar collided boxship MSC Camille and tanker-aframax Torm Marina, there’s no other information. MSC Camille IMO 9404651 Flag Panama build 2009 DWT 165181 capacity 13200 TEU. Torm Marina IMO 9319698 Flag Norway build 2007 DWT 109672.