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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* New York police cordoned off crowded Square Garden on Saturday night evacuating people from the area after detecting a suspicious vehicle that contained an improvised explosive device, ABC television channel reported

* Pakistani Taliban militants have claimed the responsibility for the attempt to detonate a bomb at the New York Time Square, the Long War Journal said citing a Taliban website

* The first batch of Venezuelan oil arrived at an oil refinery in Belarus on Sunday under agreements reached between the presidents of both countries

RUSSIA

* Japan joined the group of Russia's ten largest foreign investor countries in 2009, with its investment reaching over $8 billion, Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko said

* Russia's Progress M-05M space freighter docked with the International Space Station (ISS) manually late on Saturday night, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control Center said

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