* Despite the latest flap with NATO over the
expulsion of its diplomats from Brussels, Moscow is seeking a
partnership with the alliance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov said
* Around 100 civilians died and several others were
wounded in a recent NATO air strike in the western Afghan
province of Farah, the local police chief told reporters
* A total of 27 people have died and another 8 are missing
following a typhoon that hit the northeast Philippines on May
2, regional media said
* Lt. Gen. Valery Yevtukhovich has been dismissed as
commander of Russia's Airborne Troops on reaching the age of
retirement, a Defense Ministry source said
* Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz plans to pay
Russian energy giant Gazprom for gas supplied in April later in
the day, Ukraine's acting finance minister, Ihor Umansky, said
* A Russian diplomat in Kosovo warned that Serb protests
in the north of the province could lead to violent clashes with
ethnic Albanians
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