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Main news of December 12

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours 12.12.2009, Sputnik International

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21:47 GMT 12.12.2009

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The Russian and U.S. presidents have discussed in a telephone conversation the drafting of a new treaty on strategic arms reductions, noting considerable progress, the Kremlin said

* Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Copenhagen on Saturday to demand action to cope with climate change from the participants of a UN climate conference underway in the Danish capital

* Hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide are expected to tune in to the Miss World final to be held in South Africa on Saturday night, with beauties from over 100 countries competing

* Polling stations have opened in Abkhazia for the first presidential election since the republic formally broke away from Georgia last year

RUSSIA

* A RIA Novosti photo correspondent, Andrei Stenin, was detained for a few hours by law enforcers on Saturday when filming an unauthorized opposition rally near the presidential administration building

* Moscow is the best protected Russian city, with the sky above the Russian capital guarded by state of the art radars and air defense systems, a top air defense official said

* The number of people killed by a household gas explosion in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Region has reached six, emergencies services said

* The Moscow fire safety watchdog has asked courts to close 54 night clubs, discos, cafes and restaurants following joint checks on December 7-11 with police and prosecutors, the Emergency Situations Ministry said

* The death toll in last week's deadly blaze at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm has risen to 145 as another young girl died in a hospital, health and emergencies authorities said

* Russia marks the 16th anniversary of its Constitution on Saturday although it is not celebrated as a public holiday

BUSINESS

* Ukraine's deputy prime minister, Hryhoriy Nemyrya, denied reports that the International Monetary Fund has withheld a regular installment of its $16.4 billion loan to the ex-Soviet state

* Russia's largest independent oil producer LUKoil won an auction on Saturday for a contract to develop one of Iraq's largest oil fields

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