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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) opened in the United Nations Headquarters in New York as disputes continue on Iran's nuclear program

* The delegations of the U.S., Britain and France walked out of the UN General Assembly hall where a review conference on nuclear non-proliferation is under way after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Western powers of double standards concerning nuclear non-proliferation

* The German government agreed to provide Greece with 22.4 billion euros ($29.6 billion) as part of a multibillion-euro aid package to be allocated to the financially-stricken Balkan state by the European Union, the German N-24 TV channel said

* Russia and Poland have a common stake in building mutual trust, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in a message to the Polish people on Constitution Day

* A court in India found the only surviving terrorist from a 2008 attack on Mumbai guilty of murder and waging war against India, national media said

* Moldova's economic crimes police have searched offices of businessman Oleg Voronin, the son of former Moldovan president Vladimir Voronin and one of the republic's richest men, a police spokesman said

RUSSIA

* Residents of Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, who have been forced to leave their houses and move to other places to give space for the Olympic construction, receive equal land parcels in exchange for those intended for Olympic facilities, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered special one-off payments for people injured in Saturday's blast in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a government spokesperson said

 

 

 

 

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