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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russia and Kazakhstan will jointly enter the World Trade Organization if Belarus fails to approve agreements on the Customs Union the three former Soviet states are trying to build, the Russian premier said

* Poland is content with Russia's investigation into the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, a top Russian lawmaker said

* Some 80 people were killed in an attack by Islamic extremists on two mosques in Pakistan's second largest city of Lahore on Friday, Pakistani TV said, citing city authorities

* Ukraine will not join the post-Soviet Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) bloc as it contradicts its non-alignment policy, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Hryshchenko said

* An order offering a cash reward for any information about the whereabouts of ousted Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev's relatives was signed by the head of Kyrgyz interim government on May 26 and published on the interim government's website

* A Russian woman died in a Turkish hospital who suffered severe injuries in a bus crash in the southwest of the country earlier in the week, bringing the death toll from the accident to 16, a Russian consulate general said

* The South Korean Navy started large-scale anti-submarine drills in the Yellow Sea as part of measures to counter any further attacks by North Korea, the Xinhua news agency reported

* U.S. President Barrack Obama transmitted the new National Security Strategy to the Congress, the White House said in a statement

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on courts to impose fewer jail sentences for crimes related to the world of business

* Medvedev told a United Russia Party meeting he has an optimistic outlook on his country's relations with Ukraine

* Medvedev submitted the new Russian-U.S. strategic arms treaty for ratification to the lower house of Russia's parliament

* Two suspects in a deadly terrorist attack in the southern Russian city of Stavropol were detained in nearby Ingushetia, a source in the North Caucasus republic's security service said

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