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A round up of what happened in the past 24 hours 02.02.2010, Sputnik International

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A round up of what happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* China never discussed with any country a plan to dump U.S. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said

* A court in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev banned supporters of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych's supporters from holding rallies at the central square, the venue of Orange Revolution in 2004, before and after the runoff vote slated for Sunday

* China confirmed its decision to impose sanctions against U.S. suppliers of arms to Taiwan

* Hamas announced it was freezing discussions on prisoner swaps with Israel

* The District Court in Krakow has issued a warrant for the arrest of a man suspected of stealing the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei sign at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland, the court's press service said

* India has plans to introduce into its armed forces the new BrahMos missile, the head of the BrahMos Aerospace company, Sivathanu Pillai said

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged the government to work out measures to attract investment into Russia as the global economy continued to recover from recession

* Ukraine's national security service said it had uncovered a Russian spy network and detained one of its members, while expelling five others

* Training centres to prepare priests for deployment to Russian military units will open in the near future, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said

* Russia may abandon its rigid registration rules, seen as a check on labor mobility and a source of human rights abuse, under a new bill drafted by the state migration agency, a leading business daily said

* The government should reintroduce a law banning the cutting down of cedar forests in Russia's Far East to save the rare Amur tiger, World Wildlife Fund Russia head Igor Chestin said

* Russian police have registered an increased number of calls from Russian beggars asking to deal with rivals from other ex-Soviet republics, who drive them out of profitable locations

BUSINESS

* Igor Shuvalov, Russia's first deputy prime minister, will be in charge of improving the country's investment image, a presidential aide said

* If preliminary figures are correct, Russia's GDP grew by over 3% in the fourth quarter of 2009, presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said

* The inflow of foreign investment into Russia exceeded $40 billion last year, the government press service said

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