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19:59 GMT 04.07.2010

A roundup of what has happened over the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Exit polls from Sunday's Polish presidential runoff showed a lead for the acting Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski, TNS OBOP said

*The United States are set to improve ties with Russia, though they will keep on defending their political interests, U.S. Secretary of State said

*Seven Russian seamen among 12 captured during an attack on the German-flagged cargo ship BBC Palonia near the oil-rich Niger River delta, released, Voice of Russia said

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama and all U.S. residents on Independence Day, saying any attempts to hamper Russian - U.S. cooperation are "groundless and dead-ended"

*At least four people were killed and six injured in a terror attack carried out in southern Afghanistan, the local authorities said

*Kyrgyzstan's newly-elected president, Roza Otunbayeva, will pay her first foreign visit to Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Kyrgyz interim government, Farid Niyazov, said

RUSSIA

*Progress M-06M cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), RIA Novosti correspondent reported from Mission Control

*Russian fighter jets have performed the first ever nonstop flights from European Russia to the Russian Far East with in-flight refueling as part of the Vostok-2010 military drills , Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said

*Two Russian sailors from the North Spirit ship who were captured off Cameroon in mid-May and transferred to Nigeria have been released for a ransom, the Russian Professional Union of Sailors said, referring to the ship-owners

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is overseeing the naval phase of Russia's V ostok 2010 military drills in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Russian Far East on board the heavy nuclear-powered cruiser Pyotr Veliky

*For the first time in five years, a Russian warship will take part in a naval parade to mark Ukraine's Navy Day, a Black Sea Fleet spokesman told RIA Novosti