Main news of August 2

RUSSIA

* Three workers of Russia's Emergencies Ministry were killed in an attack by unidentified assailants in the Russian North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, a spokesman for the republican Interior Ministry said

* A Russian woman caught up in a custody battle with her Finnish ex-husband over their six-year-old son has been arrested in Finland for abduction, the Russian Embassy in Helsinki said

* Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, called on Russian and Ukrainian naval personnel in the Crimea to cooperate peacefully, during his visit to Sevastopol

WORLD

* Kyrgyzstan's newly re-elected leader, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, was sworn in as president

* Israel's president and premier have condemned Saturday night's shooting at a gay and lesbian youth center in Tel Aviv, in which two people died and 15 were injured

* Russia's mediation in the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorny Karabakh region is producing results, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev said

* The town of Ziketan in northwest China's Qinghai province has been quarantined following a man's death from pneumonic plague, state media reported

*Five foreign troops including three Americans were killed during an ambush by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement