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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours.

RUSSIA

*The three members of the feminist group Pussy Riot who were given two years in jail for their punk prayer stunt want to serve their sentence at the pre-trial detention facility in Moscow, the group’s lawyer said

* Bomb experts of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) defused a homemade explosive device equivalent to 80 kilograms of TNT in North Ossetia, a spokesman for the local FSB department

* Moscow police have detained a man who marred an icon with black ink in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior as a protest against the punk group Pussy Riot jailing, a police spokesman said

* At least ten people on their way to a wedding were killed early on Sunday when the minibus they were riding in collided with a truck on a highway in southern Russia's Stavropol region, local emergencies services reported

* Two South Korean destroyers on Sunday arrived to Russia’s Far Eastern port of Vladivostok for a two-day friendly visit, spokesman for Russia’s Pacific Fleet Capt. 1st Rank Roman Martov said
WORLD

* Iran will be capable to create nuclear weapons in six to seven months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with the NBC channel

* Iran’s religious 15 Khordad Foundation has raised its reward for the killing of British writer Salman Rushdie by $500,000 to $3.3 million, the ISNA news agency reported

* The number of Japanese at least 100 years old has reached a record 51,376 people, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported ahead of Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday that falls this year on September 17

* Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps are providing non-military assistance in Syria, the corps commander said at a press conference in Tehran

* Poland has suspended sales of strong drinks from the Czech Republic where at least 20 people have already died of methanol poisoning, the country’s health authorities said

* If the United States attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities, Tehran may retaliate by launching missile strikes against U.S. military bases in the region or by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world's petroleum passes, the top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned at a press conference

* Mexicans began celebrating the 202nd anniversary of independence from Spain

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