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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Iran has completed a large-scale military exercise to protect the country's nuclear facilities, the ISNA news agency quoted Air Force Brigadier General Ahmad Miqani as saying

* The Honduras Supreme Court has dismissed ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's claim for reinstatement, Venezuelan newspaper Universal reported

* A 22-year-old Russian believed to have been involved in a drunken high-speed car race in Switzerland has been taken into custody, national media said

* One year has passed since more than 10 coordinated terror attacks hit the Indian city of Mumbai in 59 hours, claiming at least 166 lives and wounding more than 300 people

* China intends to cut carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 compared to 2005 levels, the Chinese State Council said

* The Greek owner of a ship held by pirates for more than six months in the Indian Ocean denied media reports on Monday that the vessel had been released after a deal was struck

* Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have pledged to pool their efforts in the struggle against imperialism, according to media reports

* Two journalists from Canada and Australia have been released after 15 months of captivity in war-torn Somalia, international media reported

* The son of a Philippine clan boss suspected of the election-related massacre of 57 people has turned himself in to authorities on Thursday, international media reported

* Heavy rains have left 48 people dead in a number of provinces in Saudi Arabia, the Al Riyadh paper said

* Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie has met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during the current visit to boost ties with a reclusive communist regime, the Xinhua news agency reported

* Venezuela has asked the UN Security Council to put the current internal conflict in the neighboring Colombia on its agenda, the country's U.N. Ambassador Jorge Valero said

* Unidentified gunmen have fired grenades from portable launchers at the buildings of the Supreme Court and the Canal 10 television in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, local police said

RUSSIA

* The death of Hermitage Capital hedge fund lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a pretrial detention center was partly the fault of Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service, a top prison official admitted

* The Russian Air Force considers the unmanned aerial vehicles offered by domestic manufacturers to be inferior in quality, the force commander said

* The European Court of Human Rights has fined Russia 215,000 euros ($324,000) over the disappearance of five people in its North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, the court said in a statement

* The Russian government approved on Thursday a national energy strategy until 2030 that envisages raising oil output up to 530-535 million metric tons from last year's 488 million

BUSINESS

* Talks on Russian natural gas supplies to Poland ended in Warsaw on Thursday without the signing of an agreement, but reports of progress

SOCIETY

* Ordinary citizens have the right to defend themselves against police officers who launch illegal attacks on them, Russia’s interior minister said

* A nationwide census in Russia will not be postponed and will be held in October 2010, as previously planned, a deputy chief of Russian statistics service Rosstat said