Main News of October 14

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russian-born Tatyana McFadden has become the first person ever to win three consecutive major marathons, powering through pain at the 20th mile in the Chicago Marathon to set a course record in the women’s wheelchair race

* A Vilnius court on Monday suspended TV rebroadcasting of Russia’s Channel 1 in Lithuania over what it said was biased coverage of a bloody attempt in January 1991 by Soviet forces to retake control of the Lithuanian capital

RUSSIA

* A court in Russia’s Arctic port city of Murmansk continued to reject bail appeals from Greenpeace activists detained last month on piracy charges, ruling Monday to leave three more of them behind bars pending trial

* A London court dismissed a libel case Monday brought by a Russian former police officer against British investment fund manager William Browder for publicly linking him to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky

* Russian police said Monday that 1,200 people had been detained in Moscow at a vegetable warehouse targeted by anti-migrant rioters during violent clashes in the area the night before

* Almost one-quarter of government spending in Russia is to become classified within the next three years, according to findings by a Moscow research institute that will raise concerns of decreasing economic transparency in a country already plagued by corruption

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday hailed a historic breakthrough in relations with Honduras as the Latin American country opened its first ever embassy in Moscow

DEFENSE

* Russian army special forces units have had their first training sessions in Arctic warfare, under plans to boost the country’s military presence in the region, a Western Military District spokesman said