ITAR-TASS overnight news cycle for June 26 - 2.

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.Train traffic resumed after gas pipeline rupture in Tyumen Reg.
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MOSCOW, June 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Train traffic resumed in the Tyumen
Region after gas main rupture.
The train traffic resumed between Abayevsky and Kartymskaya on the
Tobolsk-Tyumen railroad at 23:50 Moscow time on Thursday, a source at the
Russian Railways company told Itar-Tass.

Trains between Kazan and Novy Urengoi, Omsk and Nizhnevartovsk,
Nizhnevartovsk and Sverdlovsk and Novy Urengoi and Moscow are on their
ways with some delays, the source said, adding that Russian Railways did
everything possible to shorten delay time.
The Novy Urengoi-Surgut-Chelyabinsk gas main ruptured and caught fire
about 150 metres from the railroad at the 90th kilometre of the
Abayevsky-Kartymskaya section of the Tobolsk-Tyumen railroad on Thursday
at 20:30 Moscow time. Nobody was hurt. The train traffic was halted. Fire
trains from Tyumen and Tobolsk were sent to the site.
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.Pop star Michael Jackson dies, officially confirmed in Los Angeles.
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LOS ANGELES, June 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Pop King Michael Jackson has died
in Los Angeles. Doctors have officially confirmed the information. It has
been also confirmed by Los Angeles coroner Fred Corral to CNN.
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.RF defence minister, chief of staff to meet with US JCS head.
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MOSCOW, June 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Defence Minister Anatoly
Serdyukov and Chief of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff Nikolai
Makarov will meet in the Russian Defence Ministry on Friday with Chairman
of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, who arrived in
Russia on Thursday, a Russian defence ministry source told Itar-Tass.
They will discuss prospects for normalization of Russian-U.S.
relations in the military sphere that were frozen by Washington after the
events in the Caucasus in August last year and also discuss regional and
global security issues.
Among the possible themes to be discussed are missile defence, START,
the situation in "hot spots", including in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and on
the Korean Peninsula and fight against terrorism and sea piracy.
The American military official will meet with federal legislative and
executive power representatives and visit Moscow Military District units
and the Military Academy of the General Staff. The visit will last till
June 28.
Admiral Mullen was planned to visit Russia last year, but the visit
was postponed due to the conflict in the Caucasus.
He arrived in Moscow in return for the visit by the then chief of the
Russian General Staff Yuri Baluyevsky to Washington in early December 2007.
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