* North Korea said it would conduct a new nuclear
test and test launch a ballistic missile if the UN Security
Council fails to apologize for recent criticism and sanctions
against Pyongyang, South Korea's Yonghap news agency reported
* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko thanked Russia
for its understanding over Kiev's importing less gas than
contracted amid the economic downturn
* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev approved amendments to
the 2009 budget establishing the deficit figures for the budget
and serving as a basis for the government's anti-crisis measures
* Kyrgyzstan is not holding talks with the United States
on extending a lease agreement for its airbase in the Central
Asian republic, Kyrgyz Prime Minister Igor Chudinov said
* Joint military exercises of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO) member states will be held in 2010 in
southern Kazakhstan, Anatoly Serdyukov said after a session of
the SCO defense ministers
* A Thai court may announce its ruling on the extradition
of a Russian businessman, accused of conspiring to sell arms to
Colombian left-wing rebels, in early June, a defense lawyer said
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