* Ukraine has paid in full for natural gas supplied
by Russia in May, Gazprom said
* Brazilian and French vessels searching the area where an
Air France plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean a week ago
have pulled more bodies from the water, bringing the total to
17, officials said
* A North Korean high court has sentenced two U.S.
journalists to 12 years of hard labor for illegally crossing
the country's border, North Korea's state KCNA news agency
reported
* At least five Palestinian militants were killed in a
shootout with Israeli troops on the border with the Gaza Strip,
a local security official said
* The legislature of East Siberia's Irkutsk Region
approved Dmitry Mezentsev as the region's governor
* Victory in the French Open this weekend pushed Svetlana
Kuznetsova back into the top five of the WTA rankings where she
joins two other Russians and the U.S. Williams sisters
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