Main news of July 7

RUSSIA

* Russia's new state-of-the-art Su-35 Flanker multirole air superiority/strike fighter successfully completed its first demonstration flight

* Russia is expecting a new fifth-generation fighter to enter service in 2013, the Air Force commander said

* A Russian private killed himself after shooting dead three fellow soldiers and injuring another at a firing range in Russia's Far East, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry said

* A Moscow court sentenced to 11 years in prison the self-proclaimed healer, Grigory Grabovoi, who had claimed to be able to resurrect children killed in the 2004 Beslan school siege

WORLD

* The death toll in the suicide attack at the Indian embassy in Kabul has risen to 28 people with 140 injured, the Afghan health ministry said

* Russian and U.S. Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and George W. Bush discussed the countries' long-running dispute over Washington's plans to deploy a missile shield in Central Europe on the first day of the G8 summit in Japan

* Leaders of the G8 and seven African countries met to discuss the rich nations' support for the continent, which has been hardest-hit by rising global food prices

* The leaders of the Group of Eight major industrialized nations have agreed on a long-term target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by 50%-90% by 2050, a Russian delegation representative said

* Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev told Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown during the G8 summit that the counties should work to rebuild bilateral relations, which have plunged to a post-Cold War low, a Kremlin aide said

* Iran will continue to enrich uranium despite demands by the so-called Iran Six to suspend its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said

* The Israeli army has closed down four West Bank-based organizations suspected of being affiliated with the radical Islamist group Hamas, local radio reported

* Japan expects the Russian president's visit to the G8 summit to give an impetus to a long-standing territorial dispute between the two countries over the South Kuril Islands, a Japanese diplomat said

* Strong winds and torrential rains that lashed the Chinese capital Beijing and its outskirts, have destroyed a poultry farm killing 80,000 ducks, the Beijing News said

* The foreign ministry of Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia urged the international community to help in the fight against terrorism in the region following the death of four people in a blast

* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was within the range of the explosive device that went off on the night of July 3 during Independence Day celebrations in Minsk, a national news agency said

* The Armed Forces of Belarus will hold comprehensive operational exercises at seven firing ranges throughout the country from October 15 through 21, a Defense Ministry spokesperson said

* The Hungarian president told his Ukrainian counterpart that Hungary supports Ukraine's bid to join NATO and hopes the country will get a Membership Action Plan at a summit in December

BUSINESS

* Chinese geologists have discovered a large gold deposit at a mine in the country's southwest, the China National Gold Group Corporation reported

* The board of directors of TNK-BP Management have refused to dismiss the Russian-British oil venture company's CEO, Robert Dudley, the Russian shareholders said

* The debt of Ukrainian oil and gas company Naftogaz to monopoly exporter RosUkrEnergo, 50% owned by Russian energy giant Gazprom, is more than $2 billion, the gas trader said