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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The agreement on cooperation with Russia in the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant will be sent for ratification to the Turkish parliament within the next 7-10 days, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said

* Russia and Turkey could increase bilateral trade to $100 billion over the next five years, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said

* Moscow and Ankara signed deals which their leaders hope will bring over $25 billion in mutual investment

* Leading members of the Kyrgyz interim government have been accused of accepting bribes to help the ousted leader and his family escape the country, the 24.kg news agency said

* Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been charged on suspicion of trying to bribe Ukrainian Supreme Court officials, the press service of the country's Prosecutor General's Office said

RUSSIA

* Two Russians were detained in Berlin's Tegel Airport on suspicion of intending to hijack an Air Berlin flight to Moscow, a police spokesman said

* U.S. authorities have launched a criminal case against Torry Hansen, a woman who shipped her adopted son back to Russia on a one-way flight, the Russian ombudsman for children's rights said

* Spanish National Court Judge Fernando Andreu questioned in Moscow Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska over a 4 million euro ($5.5 mln) international laundering scheme, Deripaska's press service said

* The lower chamber of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, rejected a bill to impose additional taxes on the purchase of luxury items

* A Russian court has ruled that real estate agency owner Vera Trifonova, who recently died in a Moscow pre-trial detention center, was kept in custody longer than is allowed by law, a lawyer said

* The Moscow City Court ruled that a criminal case into the murder of Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, be reopened, lawyer German Lukyanov said

* The alleged deaths of a group of Somali pirates who were set free after hijacking a Russian tanker near the Gulf of Aden have sparked heated debate in the Russian media

* Rescuers found eight more bodies overnight at a west Siberian coal mine, bringing the death toll to 60

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