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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* President Dmitry Medvedev will send a group of Russian experts to South Korea to examine the results of a probe into the sinking of a South Korean warship, the Kremlin said

* The space shuttle Atlantis with a crew of six landed at Cape Canaveral in Florida, completing its final space mission

* Russia's position on Tehran's nuclear program is neither pro-American, nor pro-Iranian, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said

* Two senior members of Kyrgyzstan's interim government have become embroiled in a bitter war of words, with claims of corruption spawning accusations of libel

* Mistakes by the crew caused the crash of the Polish presidential plane near the western Russian town of Smolensk in April, Poland's envoy to the investigation said in his report on the accident

* The Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will most likely fail to agree on common export duties for oil and cars by July 1, the chairman of the Belarus State Customs Committee said

RUSSIA

* The death toll in Wednesday's blast near the concert hall in the southern Russian city of Stavropol has risen to five, with more than 40 people injured, authorities said

* The chief editor of a Russian business daily said accusations that former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky stole 350 million tons of oil were groundless

* Flagships of three Russian fleets have united in Russia's Far East for the large-scale naval exercises in the Sea of Japan in June, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said

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