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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russia and South Korea are resolved to work to alleviate tensions on the Korean Peninsula using diplomatic methods in the interest of peace, the countries' foreign ministers said

* The Japanese government decided to tighten financial sanctions against North Korea starting July 6 in relation with the South Korean Cheonan corvette sinking

* Three Russian Emergencies Ministry aircraft with 130 tons of humanitarian aid landed in Bishkek

* Over 15,000 refugees have gathered on the Kyrgyz border after the recent violence in the Central Asian country's southern Jalalabad region, the State National Security Service reported

* Russia will offer Turkey S-300 missiles in a tender to deliver surface-to-air systems to Ankara, the state-controlled arms exporter said

* Toronto will spend $1.2 billion on security for next week's G20 summit, the city's Economic Development, Culture & Tourism head said

* The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with three crewmembers on board has blasted of from the Baikonur Space Station in Kazakhstan for its half-year mission on the International Space Station (ISS)

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has discussed the agenda of the forthcoming G8 and G20 summits in a telephone conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Kremlin has said

RUSSIA

* Franz Josef Land and the Northern Sea route clean-up program, which is to start in 2011, will require 1.2 billion rubles ($40 million), the Russian minister of natural resources and ecology said

* Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has started contract negotiations on the purchase of a French-built Mistral-class ship, the company's head said

* At least six militants and four law enforcement officers were killed during a police operation in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a federal security service official said

* Oil and gas production in Russia will start declining gradually after 2011 if the government does not change laws to stimulate geological exploration, LUKoil head Vagit Alekperov said

BUSINESS

* Gazprom warned Belarusian pipeline operator Beltransgaz it would reduce gas deliveries in proportion to the Belarusian debt starting next Monday, Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly said

* French President Nicolas Sarkozy will arrive at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 19, the Kremlin press service said

 

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