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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Ukraine’s Central Election Commission refused to register jailed ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko as candidates in the forthcoming parliamentary polls

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed into law a bill granting the Russian language official status in about half of Ukraine’s regions

* The Egyptian army will continue the military operation against extremist groups in the Sinai Peninsula to restore regional stability, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said

* Belarus has asked Sweden to pull its diplomats out of Minsk after it said it is withdrawing all of its embassy staff from Stockholm, a statement said

RUSSIA

* Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that his decision to repel the Georgian attack on South Ossetia in August 2008 was timely and efficient despite criticism expressed by some Russian generals

* Russia’s Briz-M booster, which failed to put two satellites into their target orbit, is likely to keep flying in space for up to five months before sinking into the thicker layers of the atmosphere, a rocket industry source told RIA Novosti

* Russia’s Justice Ministry has drafted a bill that would expand the list of groups and individuals who may not be founders or members of a religious organization

* A court reduced the sentence of Platon Lebedev, jailed business partner of Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, by three years and four months, making him eligible for release in March next year, his lawyers said


 

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