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A round up of what happened in the past 24 hours

 

WORLD

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on Russia implementing beefed-up UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea over a nuclear test last year

* Despite its best efforts, Belarus has been unable to secure a level playing field for its trade with Russia, President Alexander Lukashenko said

* French President Nicolas Sarkozy and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon discussed the controversial Iranian nuclear program during talks in the UN headquarters, the United Nations press service said

* Security measures were stepped up in the Washington subway following Monday's twin blasts in the Moscow metro

* The United States is aiming to get the new Russian-U.S. treaty on strategic weapons cuts ratified by the end of the year.

RUSSIA

* Finding the organizers of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro is a matter of honor for the security agencies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said during questions at a conference on transport security

* Moscow held a day of mourning after two suicide bombings killed dozens of people in the capital's subway on Monday

* Russia's Islamic Cultural Center will pay 1 million rubles ($30,000) for any information on the organizers of the Moscow subway bomb attack, the organization's president said

* Russia may see a rise in ethnic hatred following the deadly blasts in Moscow's subway, the ombudsman for Human Rights in Chechnya warned

* The upper house of the Russian parliament may propose amendments to the criminal law stipulating the death penalty for organizers of terrorist attacks resulting in multiple deaths, the chairman of the Federation Council's Committee on Legal and Juridical Issues said

* The pro-Kremlin United Russia party will propose amendments to Russian law introducing criminal punishment for attempts to rehabilitate Nazism, a lawmaker involved in the initiative has said

 

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