Main news of August 13

RUSSIA

* Six people, four police and two civilians, were killed in an attack on a police post in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, a local Interior Ministry official said

* Russia will allocate 343 million rubles ($10.7 million) in 2009 to combat the spread of the A/H1N1 virus, including 45 million rubles ($1.4 million) to develop a vaccine, the health ministry said

* Sokol, a Nizhny Novgorod-based aircraft maker, has started deliveries of new Yak-130 combat trainers to the Russian Air Force, the company said

* A court in Majorca has found three Russian yachtsmen guilty of resisting arrest and sentenced them to a six-month suspended sentence and a fine, the Russian consulate general in Barcelona said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree reinstating Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who survived an assassination attempt in June and was discharged from a Moscow hospital this week

* Production of MiG-35 multirole fighters offered for sale to India cannot start before 2013 or 2014, a Russian aircraft maker said

WORLD

* Eleven people, including women and children, were killed when the bus they were riding in hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, a local official said

* Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani escaped a Taliban ambush, the head of Ali Abad district in northern Kunduz province said

* The European Union has condemned the murder of the head of a children's organization operating in Chechnya and her husband and has urged Moscow to ensure the safety of such activists, the Swedish EU presidency said

* The Russian Navy dismissed media reports that the Black Sea frigate Ladny had been pursuing a ship in the Atlantic that resembled the missing Arctic Sea cargo vessel

* Thai prosecutors who represented Washington during the trial of Viktor Bout intend to appeal the court's refusal to extradite him to the United States, the Russian businessman's Thai lawyer said

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said he was very disappointed by the Russian leader's recent open letter to him, describing the message as "unfriendly"

* A bomb that exploded in the former Georgian republic of Abkhazia during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit claimed the lives of two people and injured another seven, an Abkhaz official said

* China has donated $16 million to relief efforts in Taiwan in the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot, which killed 103 and injured 45 on the island, Taiwanese officials said

* Women's boxing has been added to the London 2012 Olympic Games, The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said

BUSINESS

* Russia's international reserves, largely holding gold and foreign exchange, increased by $1.4 billion to $403.4 billion in the week of July 31 - August 7, the Central Bank of Russia said

* Russia's largest truck producer KamAZ announced net losses according to Russian Accounting Standards of 1.62 billion rubles ($50 million) in January-June 2009