Main news of January 25

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russia's Khrunichev research center plans to develop a new super-heavy carrier rocket that will be used to launch a piloted spacecraft to Mars

* Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, ratified a new strategic arms reduction agreement with the United States

* Russia's veterinary and sanitary watchdog has imposed interim restrictions on imports of poultry from Germany due to dioxin contamination of feed, deputy head Nikolai Vlasov said

* Moscow and Paris signed an agreement to jointly build Mistral-class helicopter carriers for the Russian Navy

* More talks are needed on Iran's nuclear program, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said

*At least six foreigners, including two British and one German, are on the list of 25 identified victims of the Moscow airport blast, released by the domoded24.com website

RUSSIA

* Families of those killed in a deadly terrorist attack at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on Monday will receive 3 million rubles ($100,000) compensation from the government, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Moscow hospitals where victims of the January 24 bomb attack on the Domodedovo Airport are receiving care

*Medvedev demanded Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service (FSB) officials responsible for security at Domodedovo be punished

* Medvedev instructed the government to implement thorough checks of passengers at major transportation facilities in the wake of the bomb attack at Domodedovo airport that killed 35

* Police officers and security staff on duty at the Domodedovo airport will be investigated for possible negligence, a law enforcement source said

* Russia's economy cannot be modernized if the government sticks to its target of having a balanced budget in 2015, Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper quoted Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach as saying

* Two terrorists were allegedly involved in the bomb attack at Domodedovo that killed 35 and injured up to 180 on Monday, a law enforcement source said

* Russia will launch another three Glonass-M satellites on board a Proton heavy carrier rocket later this year to complete the orbiting Glonass grouping, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said

BUSINESS

* Russia resumed oil deliveries to Belarus, halted pending a new price agreement in late December, Russia's state-controlled oil pipeline monopoly Transneft said

* Russian long-distance telecoms provider Rostelecom has rejected the idea of floating its quasi-treasury stock, but will list its shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), Vedomosti business daily quoted sources as saying