Main News of July 8

A roundup of what has happened over the last 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Residents of Krymsk, the city most severely devastated by floods that swept southern Russia’s Krasnodar Territory, will get new homes in 3-4 months, Governor Alexander Tkachov said

*At least one man has been killed and six others got injured in an explosion that  rocked a gasoline station in Makhachkala, the Emergencies Ministry said

* President Vladimir Putin has declared July 9 a day of mourning in Russia for the victims of a bus crash in Ukraine and devastating floods in the southern Krasnodar Region that killed at least 164 Russian nationals, the Kremlin press office reported

WORLD

* A month after Egypt’s Islamist-led parliament was dissolved by then-ruling powerful military generals, the country’s newly elected president ordered it to reconvene until a new one is elected

* A land mine went off in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan destroying a passenger bus and killing at least 14, GEO-TV news channel said

SPORTS

* Donor nations pledged $16 billion in development aid for Afghanistan through 2015 to help the country not slide into turmoil when NATO troops withdraw

* KAMAZ team driver Eduard Nikolaev has won the first stage of the rally marathon Silk Way Rally in the truck category