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19:59 GMT 05.04.2010

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will take part in the nuclear security summit in Washington on April 12-13, a Kremlin spokesman said

* The U.S. Discovery space shuttle blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on one of NASA's final stockpiling missions to the International Space Station

* Colombia is looking to attract Russian investment in any sector and is prepared to offer potential investors all necessary guarantees, Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez said

* Any sanctions imposed against Iran over its nuclear program will only increase the Islamic Republic's desire to move forward with uranium enrichment, a Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said

RUSSIA

* Two police officers were killed and at least 13 other people were injured in a series of two explosions in Russia's volatile southern province of Ingushetia, a local investigative committee spokesman said

* Russian pro-Kremlin United Russia party deputies have cautiously backed a proposal to forbid media outlets from broadcasting statements by terrorists

* Moscow is convinced that the new Russia-U.S. strategic arms reduction deal to be signed in Prague on April 8 will be ratified by both countries, a Russian presidential aide said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych, who is on a private visit to Moscow, for the second time in five weeks

* Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has signed two contracts worth $1.2 billion on the deliveries of 16 jet fighters to Algeria and another six fighters to Uganda, the Russian Vedomosti daily reported

* Venezuela could sign over $5 billion worth of contracts for Russian arms and military equipment, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* Russia plans to pay a $1 billion bonus to Venezuela for the development of additional oil fields in the Latin American country, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* A resident of Dagestan has claimed that he recognizes one of the women who carried out the terrorist attacks on the Moscow metro as his daughter Mariam Sharipova, the Moscow weekly Novaya Gazeta reported

* The launch of the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 Earth Explorer satellite on a Russian Rokot carrier rocket is scheduled for April 8, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said

* Ingush President Yunus Bek-Yevkurov said the latest spate of bomb attacks in Russia were links in the same chain

EX-SOVIET STATES

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law on ratifying treaties with the former Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on joint border protection, the Kremlin press office said

* The commissioner for EU enlargement will visit Georgia on April 7-9, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said

* Russian servicemen will participate in the May 9 Victory Day parade in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, a top Russian military official said

* Uzbekistan has made progress in human rights, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said during his official visit to Tashkent