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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours 07.05.2010, Sputnik International

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

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* Tehran is planning to launch up to six satellites in the near future, Fars news agency quoted Iranian Telecommunications Minister Reza Taqipour as saying

* The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) has loaded a Russian space freighter with garbage and readied the spacecraft for undocking, Mission Control said

* Kyrgyzstan's prosecutor general has sent Belarus an extradition request for former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, a deputy prime minister in the interim government said

* North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reiterated his commitment to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported

* The lower chamber of the Russian parliament will discuss sending a proposal to the Russian prime minister to consider suspending adoptions of Russian children by U.S. citizens

* Representatives of UN Security Council member states did not discuss sanctions at a meeting with the Iranian foreign minister, Japan's UN envoy told journalists

* The operation to release a Russian vessel seized by Somali pirates lasted just 22 minutes, the commander of the Russian naval task force in the Gulf of Aden has said

* Despite the election of a new president widely seen as pro-Russian, Ukrainian troops still plan to join NATO's rapid reaction force later this year, the chairman of the NATO Military Committee has said

RUSSIA

* Russia will complete the construction of a new naval base at the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiisk by 2020 with a price tag of 92 billion rubles ($3 billion), Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* Russia's Typhoon class strategic nuclear-powered submarines will remain in service with the Navy until 2019, the Navy commander said

* A special investigation commission will announce on May 20 the official results of a probe into the latest failure of Russia's ill-fated Bulava ballistic missile, the Navy commander said

* The defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II was down to the Soviet people not dictator Joseph Stalin, whose crimes against the nation cannot be justified, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said

BUSINESS

* Moscow will continue to push for the lifting of U.S. sanctions against Russian companies, including a state-run arms exporter, a Kremlin source said

The Uzbek Uzavtosanoat company and the German auto concern Daimler AG signed an agreement for creating a joint venture producing Mercedes-Benz buses, a source from the Uzbek government said

* State Technology Corporation Rostekhnologii plans to embark on a joint small arms production venture with Italian firearms company Bretta, Kommersant business daily reported

* Russia's Lada car may return to the British market after 13-year-old absence, the Daily Mail has said

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