Main news of July 24

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Norwegian police can not find a police guard who was due to be on the Utoya Island where 86 people were killed after Friday's massacre, Sky News reported

*Pirates seized an Italian-flagged vessel with a crew of 23 in the Gulf of Guinea on Sunday, Italian media reported

*Norwegian police that has detained six suspects in Oslo bombing earlier on Sunday, released them because of lack of the evidence of their involvement into the Friday's twin attacks, Norwegian media reported

*The death toll in a collision between two high-speed trains in east China's Zhejiang province has risen to 35 people while the number of those injured in the incident stands at 210, official news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday, referring to rescuers

*The confirmed death toll from the sunken cruise vessel Bulgaria has risen to 117 people, after the divers discovered three more bodies on the riverboat, the Emergencies Ministry said

*The death toll in two separate attacks in Norway has dropped to 92, including seven people killed in a deadly bombing in Oslo and 85 shot dead at a nearby youth camp on the Utoya Island, Norwegian TV channel NRK reported on Sunday, citing police data.

*Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to Caracas after cancer treatment in Cuba, the Noticia al Dia online portal said

*The Central Election Commission in Riga said on Sunday more than 94% of voters in Latvia and abroad supported the parliament dissolution, which is seen as a "step forward" by the vote initiator

*Norwegian police are verifying if twin attack suspect Anders Behring Breivik was the author of a manifesto and a video which appeared on the web, Norwegian media said

*With about 20% of the vote counted in Saturday's Latvian referendum to dissolve parliament, more than 94% of citizens say the country's legislature, the Saeima, should be sacked.

 

RUSSIA

*Russia's sanitary watchdog Rospotrebnadzor is ready to totally lift a ban on import of vegetables from Europe if there are no cases of the E'Coli infections registered, Russia's chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said

*The confirmed death toll from the sunken cruise vessel Bulgaria has risen to 120 people, after the divers discovered one more body on the riverboat, the Emergencies Ministry said

*Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will launch the 7th and 8th power units of the Surgut-2 electricity plant in Siberia and the 12th unit at the Middle Urals power station via a video link on Monday, the government's press office reported

*Russian rescuers recovered the bodies of two more people from the sunken cruise ship Bulgaria, bringing the death toll to 119, the Emergencies Ministry said

*Over 90 percent of Russian police have passed their performance review as part of the ongoing police reform, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said

*Police killed three militants in the North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, including a local warlord and a woman trained as a suicide bomber, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee said

*Police have killed three suspected militants, including a woman, in a security sweep in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, a police source said

*The Bulgaria, a river cruise boat which sank on the Volga river killing at least 114 people, will be discarded as soon as investigation into the accident is over, a Russian deputy transport minister said.