Main News of April 7

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The United States has delayed an intercontinental ballistic missile test planned for next week, media reported

* South Sudan has resumed its oil production, ending a row over transit fees with Sudan - a breakthrough in relations between the neighbors after bloody clashes in 2012, media reported

* Radioactive water may have leaked again into the ground from a storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in north-east Japan, the plant’s operator reported

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has pardoned jailed ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, according to the decree posted on the president’s website

* China has asked North Korea to ensure safety for its diplomats amid rising tension on the Korean peninsula, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said

* A member of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council and the Paktia tribal council head was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the northern Kunduz province, Pajhwok news agency reported on Sunday, citing local officials

* Ukraine’s leading opposition party, Batkivshchyna, said on Sunday some 20,000 people gathered for a rally in downtown Kiev as part of the Rise, Ukraine! opposition campaign

* Russian businessman Viktor Bout, convicted for arms trafficking in the United States, will get a new team of lawyers, his wife Alla said

* Twelve civilians, including eleven children, have been killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan during a weekend operation, local officials said

* German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday Berlin plans to broaden the discussion on civil society and human rights with the Russian government

RUSSIA

* Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Hanover, Germany, on Sunday to attend the inauguration of a major industrial fair and hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel

* Russia’s Emergencies Ministry rejected media reports on Sunday that a new meteorite had crashed in the country’s northwest

* Russian military inspectors will make surveillance flights over the territories of Romania and Hungary under the international Open Skies Treaty within a period starting Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry has reported

* Some 15,000 people were evacuated from a shopping center in southwest Moscow on Sunday following a prank call reporting a bomb threat, a Moscow police source said