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A roundup of what happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday that Iran should be given until December to meet international demands over its nuclear program

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama will concentrate on Iran during talks on Wednesday in New York, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said

* New Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday that he wants to resolve a territorial dispute with Russia and conclude a peace agreement

* U.S. President Barack Obama warned the leaders of North Korea and Iran on Wednesday that they would be "held accountable" if they continued to disregard international law

* A U.S.-mediated meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was "ineffectual," a deputy head of the Arab League said

* Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi suggested on Wednesday moving the United Nations Headquarters from New York to Beijing or New Delhi

* Spanish police have detained a pilot suspected of involvement in the state-sanctioned murder of dissidents during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina

* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for toughening international pressure on Iran and using "crippling sanctions" regardless whether talks go ahead on Iran's nuclear program or not

* Thieves used a helicopter to rob a security company's cash depot in Stockholm on early Wednesday morning, a Swedish news web site reported

* The lower house of Poland's parliament adopted on Wednesday a resolution condemning the entry of Soviet troops into Eastern Poland in September 1939

* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ready to build friendly relations with the United States, the presidential website quoted him as saying in a French TV interview

* India successfully launched on Wednesday a booster rocket to orbit the country's 16th remote sensing satellite and six European nano satellites, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said

* An investigation commission of the Ukrainian parliament has demanded that the country's Prosecutor General's office launch a probe into falsification of President Viktor Yushchenko's dioxin poisoning, a Ukrainian on-line newspaper said

* U.S. top military commander in Afghanistan has asked President Barack Obama to authorize sending up to 40,000 additional troops to the war-torn country to fight effectively the Taliban militants, Fox News has reported

* At least seven people were killed in a crash of an Iranian military airplane outside Tehran, the national television has reported

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in the United States to attend a number of key international events and hold talks with foreign leaders

* Safety inspectors, supervisory bodies and the owners are responsible for Wednesday's deadly explosion at a fireworks warehouse in the southwest Russian city of Voronezh, the regional governor has said

* The Moscow city legislature has appointed the Russian capital's first human rights ombudsman

* The Russian government approved on Wednesday the draft budget for 2010 with a budget deficit of 6.8% of GDP, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said

* A top Russian military official on Wednesday denied media allegations of abuse of office as part of a smear campaign against him

* Estonia has removed a Russian MP from a "blacklist" of officials, who are prohibited from entering the Baltic States and other Schengen countries, a national newspaper reported

* Rescuers are searching a lake in Russia's far north for seven people who went missing after a storm caused their boat to capsize, local authorities said

* Russia's Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, damaged in a fatal accident during tests in November last year, successfully completed the third stage of sea trials, the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory said

BUSINESS

* Russian energy giant Gazprom completed on Wednesday a deal to buy a 51% stake in SeverEnergia from Italian co-owners Eni and Enel for $1.6 billion

RELIGION

* The head of the Russian Orthodox Church on Wednesday led a procession through the city of Kursk, 300 miles south of Moscow, to celebrate the arrival of a miracle-working icon from the United States

CULTURE

* The Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO said on Wednesday it was worried over the St. Petersburg government's approval of a 403-meter office tower in the city's historic center

SPORT

* Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov won the first two rapid games against his long-time rival Anatoly Karpov in a showdown in Valencia