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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The UN mission in Haiti said 36 of its employees were killed and 73 injured when a powerful quake hit the island nation on Tuesday

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko pledged on Thursday that if elected president in January 17 polls she would seek EU membership for the ex-Soviet state as soon as possible

* Armenia and Russia denied a stalemate in talks on the Soviet-era Nagorny Karabakh dispute with Azerbaijan

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has praised the "landmark" court decision which finds Bolshevik leaders guilty of genocide against Ukrainians during the 1932-1933 Holodomor famine

* Haiti is in the desperate need of medical aid following a devastating earthquake which left thousands of people dead, the country's president Rene Preval told CNN

RUSSIA

* Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Maxim Surayev have completed this year's first spacewalk and returned to the International Space Station, Mission Control said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned the United States on Thursday that Russia could find other poultry suppliers if U.S. companies fail to meet the country's sanitary requirements

* Russia's flagship carrier Aeroflot has finally taken the Tu-154M airliner (NATO reporting name Careless), out of service after decades in operation, the company said

* The Russian Orthodox Church looks set to become a major owner of property in Russia after a long-delayed law on returning religious property seized by the Bolsheviks got a push from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

* Russia's government has launched a crusade against alcohol abuse, describing it as a "national disaster" and aiming to halve consumption by 2020 and root out illegal production and sales

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