* Rex Geveden, associate administrator of NASA, said security would be tightened at a NASA space center in Texas after an armed man killed a hostage and himself in the building Friday
* The leader of the liberal Yabloko party said Russia's right-wing forces, which had been split since the failure in the 2003 parliamentary elections, would have a single candidate at the 2008 presidential elections
* Egypt's State Security Court sentenced a 31-year-old Egyptian holding Canadian citizenship to 15 years in jail and a fine of $1,750 for spying in favor of Israel, court officials said
* The president of the United States will visit the Czech Republic June 4-5 and Poland June 8 for negotiations on Washington's missile shield plans, the local media said
* A former premier of Kyrgyzstan and now leader of the radical opposition, Felix Kulov, said his four-hour questioning by security bodies had focused on the financing of his movement's activity
* Russia and the European Union completed all the procedures required to put into effect the agreements on easing visa regulations and returning illegal migrants from June 1, diplomats said in Moscow
* Iranian nuclear officials arrived in Moscow last night to discuss completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant that Russia is building in the Islamic Republic, the IRNA news agency said
* A 197-feet bunker of authoritarian Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in central Moscow will be transformed into a museum and an entertainment center, an official at a local exposition said
