Main news of June 29

RUSSIA

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine over its plans to join NATO and said Russia would transfer its space and hi-tech facilities to domestic soil, if the ex-Soviet republic enters the alliance

* Three police and three civilians were killed in two separate clashes with militants in the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya, a local law-enforcement official said

* Public sector wages in Russia will increase by 30% from December 1, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* At least eight people died and another eighteen were injured after a bus collided with a truck in the Leningrad Region in northwest Russia, the regional emergencies center said

* Eleven children aged 3-6 were hospitalized with an apparent stomach infection in the East Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, a spokeswoman for the city's health department said

WORLD

* At least six people were injured after two bombs went off in the Black Sea resort city of Gagry in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia, local police said

* Iran is concluding the study of new incentives aimed at halting its controversial nuclear program, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheikh Attar said

* The Bushehr nuclear power plant being built in Iran will be launched in October, Ahmad Fayazbakhsh, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said

* China's authorities and representatives of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will resume talks in early July, the news agency Xinhua reported

* Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe won the presidential election, in which he was the only candidate, the news agency France Presse said