Main News of December 13

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Ukrainian opposition leaders reiterated their demands to President Viktor Yanukovych at a roundtable designed to help soothe political tensions in the protest-hit state

* The international watchdog currently overseeing the destruction of chemical weapons and facilities in Syria said that it had found more evidence of chemical attacks in the country

* The United States should abandon its plans for a missile defense system in Europe, as the breakthrough deal last month with Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions “has completely changed the geopolitical situation,” a Russian foreign ministry official said

RUSSIA

* Russia’s financial regulator revoked the banking licenses of three mid-sized banks as the authorities expand a banking sector crackdown

* Russia and Belarus signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the use and development of the Glonass global navigation and positioning network

* A St. Petersburg company has applied to trademark a logo that would indicate a product was made without migrant labor, a Russian online business paper reported