MOSCOW (AP):

An earthquake of about magnitude seven shook a remote area of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula early Sunday, a week after another strong quake had forced the evacuations of hundreds of people, officials said.

The earthquake hit about at about 4 a.m. and its epicentre was near the village of Tilichki, said Natalia Korgun, a duty officer at the Russian seismological service station in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

There were no immediate reports of injury or damage.

Tilichki was one of the villages hardest hit by an April 21 quake that measured 7.7 Hundreds of people were evacuated to the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky after that quake and it was not immediately clear how many people had remained in Tilichki.

The Kamchatka peninsula extends down from mainland Russia toward Japan, some 7,000 kilometres (4,350 miles) east of Moscow.

EL-ARISH, EGYPT (AP):

Egyptian security forces in central Sinai on Saturday clashed with gunmen wanted for terror attacks on a Red Sea resorts as well as international peacekeepers and police, killing one and wounding a second, a security official said.

Police said informants, including some semi-nomadic Bedouins who live in the forbidding central Sinai, told security officials that about 10 wanted men were holed up in the mountainous Maghara region, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

The injured man and the rest of the group managed to flee after about two hours of fighting, the official said. The dead man, who was not identified, was found with an automatic rifle.