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Main news of January 24

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours 24.01.2010, Sputnik International

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

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* A Ukrainian MP burned his passport on Sunday in protest against President Viktor Yushchenko's decree to make a hero of Stepan Bandera who was a nationalist leader in 1930-1960

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is facing opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych in a presidential runoff, pledged on Sunday to fulfill defeated candidates' promises, if she won the vote

* Al-Qaeda leader bin Laden claimed responsibility for the failed attack on a U.S. airliner on December 25 in a new audio message and vowed to carry out further attacks

* Afghanistan has postponed its parliamentary elections by four months until September over the shortage of funds and security concerns in the war-torn country, the election commission said

* At least 46 passengers on board a Russian-made Iranian airliner were injured after the plane caught fire while trying to land in northeastern Iran, state television reported

* North Korea on Sunday lashed out at the South's remark earlier this month that it could launch a preemptive strike against Pyongyang's nuclear facilities, calling the comment 'a declaration of war"

* The death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti last week exceeded 112,000, according to new official figures released by the Haitian government

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* President Dmitry Medvedev outlined the priorities in the ongoing Russian police reform

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the new arms cuts pact with the United States has almost been agreed upon

* Residents in the Siberian city of Tomsk held a picket on Sunday to protest police abuses, following the death of a journalist who was beaten and sexually abused in a police drunk tank

* Russian specialists have completed the operation to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by about 5 km (3 miles), Mission Control said

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