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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

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* Slovenia defeated Algeria 1-0 in the World Cup 2010, securing the first place in Group C, ahead of the U.S. and England

* The European Nabucco gas pipeline project is more important for Bulgaria than the Russia-backed South Stream project, Bulgaria's deputy foreign minster said

* The death toll in Kyrgyz ethnic clashes has risen to 113, with more than 1,400 people injured, a local health ministry spokeswoman said

* The Kyrgyz interim government made a decision to introduce a state of emergency in the entire territory of the Jalalabad Region in south Kyrgyzstan following recent riots and impose a curfew in the area

*The Russian Defense Ministry sent an additional 150 paratroopers to enhance security at Russia's airbase in Kyrgyzstan following deadly ethnic clashes in the country's south

* Kyrgyz and Uzbek ethnic leaders in Kyrgyzstan agreed to begin reconciliation talks following days of ethnic violence

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for a rapid end to violence in Kyrgyzstan

* Thousands of refugees have fled to Uzbekistan from Kyrgyzstan as the Uzbek authorities have opened the border with Kyrgyzstan

* Sixty-seven Kyrgyz public organizations asked the Russian authorities on Sunday to send peacekeepers to the Central Asia republic

* Libya and Switzerland will soon sign a memorandum on mutual understanding intended to improve relations between the two countries which have been deteriorated for almost two years

* Ukraine wants to join Russia and Kazakhstan in creating a low-enriched uranium reserve center in Russia's Angarsk, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said

* At least 12 people were killed and 40 were wounded when a series of explosions struck the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on the eve of the newly elected Iraqi parliament's opening session

 

RUSSIA

* Russia's Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation into the death of a WBC youth world boxing champion in North Ossetia

* Serbian international and Russia's CSKA Moscow midfielder Milos Krasic is most likely to seal a switch to Italy

 

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