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Main news of December 13

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours 13.12.2009, Sputnik International

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Chinese leader Hu Jintao visited Turkmenistan on Sunday ahead of a ceremony to unveil an ambitious pipeline to bring Central Asian natural gas to China

* A cargo plane full of North Korean weapons, detained in Thailand after an emergency landing at Bangkok airport, was bound for Ukraine, the Thai news agency TNA reported

* Challengers to Abkhazia's incumbent president who won Saturday's vote highlighted on Sunday widespread violations and vowed to appeal the results

* Sudan's two main political groups in the north and south reached agreement on democratic reforms

* India successfully test fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile from a naval ship off the coast of the Orissa state on Sunday, Indian media reported citing the firing range director

* Chileans are voting on Sunday in presidential and parliamentary elections

* Abkhazia's incumbent President Sergei Bagapsh has won presidential elections in the first round, with 59.4% of votes cast in his favor, the Central Election Commission said

* The Copenhagen police have released almost all protesters detained during a mass climate change rally in the Danish capital, the BBC reported

* Venezuela and Cuba have signed agreements on 285 joint projects totaling about $3.16 billion at the summit of the regional ALBA trade bloc in Havana

* Kaiane Aldorino, a 23-year-old administrative clerk from Gibraltar, was crowned Miss World 2009 at the beauty contest in South Africa

RUSSIA

* The mayor of a town 80 kilometers (50 miles) west off Moscow and his wife were found dead in their house on Sunday, investigators said

* Gas supplies to Russia's North Ossetia were cut off until next morning on Sunday as security forces have been working to defuse an explosive devise planted on the pipeline in nearby Ingushetia, a police official said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold an informal meeting with his visiting Croatian counterpart, Stjepan Mesic, on Monday, the Kremlin said

* Over 2,000 people gathered in Moscow on Sunday for a jubilee congress of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), which was celebrating the 20th anniversary of its creation

* The death toll from last week's nightclub fire in a Russian Urals city has risen to 146, after one more person died in hospital, the Perm administration said

SPORT

* Ukraine's Vitali Klitschko retained his WBC heavyweight title on Saturday night after beating previously undefeated challenger Kevin Johnson of the United States (22-1-1, 9 KOs)

RELIGION

* Russia's chief rabbi and the Moscow mayor kindled the lights of a giant menorah in the center of the capital on Sunday to mark Hanukkah

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