* The Russian-EU summit began in the Far Eastern city
of Khabarovsk with an informal dinner
* Despite recent difficulties in relations, the European
Union favors "dialogue and engagement" with Moscow, EU foreign
policy chief Javier Solana told RIA Novosti ahead of an
EU-Russia summit
* A former army officer suspected of involvement in a
mutiny at a Georgian tank base on May 5 was killed and two
others wounded in a police operation, Georgian television said
* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko formally
announced her plans to run in a presidential election later
this year
* A senior investigator in the capital of the volatile
southern Russian republic of Daghestan was fatally shot, a
local Interior Ministry official said
* The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested four
men accused of planning to blow up a synagogue in New York,
along with other terrorist attacks
* At least 13 people died and another four were seriously
injured during a fire in a headphone factory in southern
China's province of Guangdong, Xinhua news agency reported
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