Brazil team wins its first WSCF match against NKorea, 2-1.

JOHANNESBURG, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - It took almost one hour for the
Brazilian soccer team, who play in Group G, to score a goal in their first
match at the World Soccer Cup Finals in South Africa against North Korea.
The team of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), who
appeared at the WSCF for the first time in the past 44 years, and who have
the lowest rating among the other participants, managed to put up a stout
resistance to the five-time world champions.
In result, the Brazilian team had to work hard to win the match that
was played at the Ellis Park Stadium here, with a score of 2-1. Upon
gaining three points, Brazil is at the head of the Group following the
draw in the Portugal versus Cote d'Ivoire match.

.Unidentified gunners kill policeman in Dagestan.

MAKHACHKALA, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - Unidentified gunners have fired at
a police patrol in the Dagestani city of Derbent and killed one policeman.
A source in the Interior Ministry press service for Dagestan has told
Itar-Tass, "The incident occurred at 00:15, Moscow time, on Wednesday, on
the street named after the 345th Small Arms Division".
The source said, "Unidentified gunners, riding in a car, shot several
bursts of submachine-gun fire at a foot patrol of the point-duty police
patrol service. As a result of the fire, one policeman died".
An Intercept operation plan has been declared in the city in a search
for the attackers.

.RF Emercon to send humanitarian supplies to Kyrgyzstan.

MOSCOW, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Ministry for Emergencies
(RME), acting on an instruction from RF President Dmitry Medvedev, will
send humanitarian aid supplies to Kyrgyzstan.
An official at the RME information department has told Itar-Tass, "It
is planned that three IL-76 transportation planes of the RME will take off
from the Ramenskoye airfield near Moscow on Wednesday, heading for
Bishkek".
These special planes will deliver almost 130 tonnes of humanitarian
supplies from the stocks of the Rosreserv (Federal State Reserves Agency)
to Kyrgyzstan. The supplies include 30 tonnes of sugar, about 54 tonnes of
canned meat and 15 tonnes of canned fish, as well as 15 tonnes of blankets.
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.Irkutsk int'l conf to deal with transborder forest fire fighting.
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IRKUTSK, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - An international conference on
counteraction to transborder forest fires and on cooperation in fighting
them opens here on Wednesday.
An official in the press service of the governor and government of the
region has told Itar-Tass that the programme for the conference is
intended for three days to enable participants to share their experience
in arrangements for the protection of forests from fires, inter-agency and
interregional interaction in grappling with fires, and the development of
information systems for distance monitoring.
Representatives of Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, the Republic
of Korea, the United States, and Ukraine are expected to make reports and
communications at plenary meetings.
Russia is to be represented by the directors of the relevant agencies
of the Ministries of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Foreign Affairs,
the Ministry for Emergencies, other Federal agencies, and executive power
bodies of the border regions of the Far East, Siberia, and the European
part of the country.
The forestry department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization and the UN center for global monitoring of natural fires will
be also represented at the conference.
A Protection of Forests from Fires exhibition will be open during the
work of the conference. Forest fire fighting exercises are to be held in
conclusion of the forum.
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