NEW YORK (AFP) - Russian state-owned aerospace group United Aircraft Corporation plans to bid for a US Air Force tanker contract, teaming up with a US partner, a lawyer representing the firm told AFP Friday.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli aircraft hit a disused airport in southern Gaza on Friday night, injuring three people, Palestinian medical officials and eyewitnesses said.

FREETOWN (AFP) - Sierra Leone's mining ministry on Friday denied reports of an accident in which up to 200 were feared missing after a gold mine collapsed in a remote area of the southern Bo province.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso on Friday urged member states to approve "as soon as possible" a financial aid mechanism for Greece to use if necessary.

FREETOWN (AFP) - Up to 200 illegal miners were feared missing after a landslide buried a Sierra Leone goldmine in debris in a remote area of the southern Bo province, a police source said Friday.