Main News of July 29

Roundup of what has happened over the past 24 hours

WORLD

*A Russian-made amphibious plane crashed on Sunday in northern Iran leaving three people injured, Press TV reported

*Vietnam is considering joining the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang said on Sunday during his visit to Russia

*Iran will file a complaint against the United States and Europe for imposing unilateral sanctions on the Islamic Republic without the UN Security Council’s approval, Press TV reported on Sunday quoting the Iranian official

*Some 40 Taliban militants were killed and 14 were injured on Saturday in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province as they attempted to attack the police checkposts at the Afghan-Pakistani border, Xinhua reported on Saturday, citing local officials

*The Indian army has successfully test-fired a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, a spokesman for BrahMos Aerospace, which produces the missile, said on Sunday

RUSSIA

*President Vladimir Putin will visit the Arkhangelsk Region in north Russia on Monday to attend the ceremony of laying down Russia’s fourth Borei class (Project 955A) ballistic missile submarine, the Kremlin press office reported on Sunday

*A joint parade of Ukraine’s Navy and the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol on Russia’s Navy Day reflects a new level of bilateral interaction, Ukrainian Defense Minister Dmytro Salamatin said on Sunday

*Russian and Ukrainian sailors will hold their first joint parade in Sevastopol in Ukraine’s Crimea on Sunday to celebrate Russia’s Navy Day, spokesman for the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Captain First Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachyov said

 

SPORTS

*South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh took the Olympic 100m breaststroke gold in a world record time on Sunday

*U.S. swimmer Dana Vollmer won the women's 100 meter butterfly on Sunday, setting a new world record in the process

*Hungary’s Aron Szilagyi took his country’s first gold medal of the London Olympics with a win in the men’s individual saber competition Sunday

*Maria Sharapova thrashed Israel’s Shahar Peer in the first round of the Olympic tournament on Sunday

*The Chinese pair of He Zi and Wu Minxia won the three meter synchronized springboard diving competition with a dominant peformance Sunday

*A disciplined drive from Lewis Hamilton earned him victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday despite a fierce challenge from the Lotus pair of Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean

*On July 28, the first day of the London 2012 Summer Olympics, the Russian Olympic team won one medal. The first Russian athlete to bring gold for Russia was judoka Arsen Galstyan who beat Japan's Hiroaki Hiraoka in the 60-kilogram final