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19:59 GMT 27.05.2010

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Moscow has the right to conduct its own investigation into the recent sinking of a South Korean warship as Russia along with China plays a considerable role in the settlement of the situation on the Korean peninsula, the U.S. Department of State said

* Authorities in south Russia's Stavropol Territory have declared a day of mourning on May 28 for victims of a deadly terrorist attack, the deputy head of the regional government said

* Police found an improvised explosive device, a gun and ammunition during searches of the homes of two people suspected of involvement in a deadly blast in south Russia's Stavropol, a police source said

* A Russian emergencies ministry Il-76 plane with 21 injured Russian tourists from a bus crash in the southwest of Turkey landed at the Domodedovo airport in Moscow

* Russia's drug control chief, who is currently on a visit to Beijing, said his Chinese colleagues shared Russia's concerns about the growing drug threat from Afghanistan

WORLD

* The Russian government has studied the new Russian-U.S. strategic arms reduction treaty and recommended that the Russian president submit it to parliament for ratification

* Moscow will assist the negotiating process to break the impasse over Iran's nuclear program, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Deposed Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev is ready to return to the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic and announce a referendum, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said

*The UN Security Council's draft resolution on new sanctions against Iran will not affect trade and economic agreements between Moscow and Tehran, a Russian lawmaker said

*Russia is ready to cooperate with Georgian business on wine and water supplies after a two-year import ban, Russia's chief sanitary official said

*Moscow expects an explanation on the deployment of U.S. Patriot missiles near the Polish-Russian border, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

*The Kyrgyz authorities appealed to Interpol to detain deposed president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, law enforcement chief Azimbek Beknazarov said

* North Korea has threatened to block South Korean access to a joint industrial zone on the border between the two countries, Yonhap news agency said, quoting a North Korean military commander

* China, North Korea's most important ally, reiterated its reluctance in joining the U.S. and South Korean claim that Pyongyang was behind the sinking of the Cheonan warship

* G20 countries have a worse record on human rights that country's outside the organization, Amnesty International said in its annual report on human rights abuse published

* Another man committed suicide at Foxconn plant in China bringing the toll of suicides at the Taiwanese hi-tech company to five this month only and to an overall of 10 from the beginning of the year, local media reported

BUSINESS

* Russia's railway monopoly RZD, top high-speed train service Aeroexpress, and Germany's Siemens signed a deal on production of new generation electric trains