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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*All the bodies of 61 victims of the Cuban plane crash have been found and sent for identification, ACN Cuban news agency said

*Possible deployment of the elements of NATO missile defense shield in Turkey is targeted against Iran and may pose a threat to Russia's security, Russian experts said

*The number of cholera cases in Haiti spikes to 7,000, Russia's chief sanitary doctor said

*Two Ukrainian sailors sentenced to nine-year imprisonment in Venezuela for the shipment of 125 kilograms of cocaine will be extradited in the nearest future, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's press service said

*The foreign ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia discussed the Nagorny Karabakh settlement in Moscow on Saturday, Russian Foreign Ministry said

*Saudi Arabia and Ukraine have signed an agreement to cooperate in peaceful space exploration, the website of the Space Agency of Ukraine said

*Experts working at the site of a Cuban plane crash have recovered flight recorders and nine bodies of crash victims

*About 50 people, including several children, have been injured as a result of a fire that broke out in a children's hospital in Rome

*At least 69 were killed as a volcano in Indonesia's Central Java re-erupted on Friday, bringing the death toll from the disaster to 107

*Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has claimed responsibility for an international mail bomb plot uncovered last week and the crash of a UPS cargo plane in Dubai in September

 

RUSSIA

*A body of one of the 17 miners missing after May's deadly accident at a southwestern Siberian Raspadskaya coalmine, which killed at least 75 miners, was found, a spokesman for regional administration said

*A group of Journalists and bloggers are holding rally near the Moscow police headquarters demanding the thorough investigation into the attack on Kommersant journalist

*Human rights activists lauded Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's veto on amendments to the federal law on rallies and meetings

*Russia's Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika has got the criminal case into the attack on Russian daily Kommersant's political correspondent Oleg Kashin under his control, spokeswoman for the Prosecution General's office said

*Two Russian mothers - Valentina Putkonen and Rimma Salonen who live in Finland will ask Russia for political asylum for their children, the women's lawyer Johan Bekman told Ekho Moskvy FM station

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has put veto on amendments to the federal law on protests and rallies, the Kremlin said

*Saturday's attack on Russian daily Kommersant's political correspondent Oleg Kashin was probably linked to his work

*A Kommersant daily's political correspondent was attacked and severely beaten by unknown people near his house early on Saturday

 

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