Main news of July 27

RUSSIA

* Nigerian gunmen who seized five sailors from the ship Hercules, including two Russians, have not advanced any demands, the Russian embassy in Lagos said

* The Orthodox Church unity under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate is no obstacle to the sovereignty of countries that are successors to Kievan Rus, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II said during celebrations held in the Ukrainian capital to mark the 1,020th anniversary of the adoption of Orthodox Christianity in Kievan Rus

* Russia will create 5-6 aircraft carrier battle groups in the Northern and Pacific Fleets in the future, Navy Commander Vladimir Vysotsky said

WORLD

* The Olympic village, which will host athletes and officials during the Olympic Games due to start next month, was officially opened in Beijing

* Turkish bomber planes carried out strikes on Mount Qandil in northern Iraq, targeting bases of Kurdish separatists, the Turkish military announced on its website

* Iran executed 29 people convicted of murder, armed robbery, drug trafficking and other crimes, national television said

* Fourteen people were injured after a double-deck bus carrying Polish tourists overturned and fell into a ditch in Italy, Polish television said

* Robert Dudley, the CEO of Russian British oil company TNK-BP, has set up a secret European command center to try to keep control of the company in a row with Russian shareholders, the U.K.'s Sunday Times reported