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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*A Libyan-chartered ship carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip entered Egyptian waters on Wednesday after it was intercepted by the Israeli navy, an Israeli military source said

*Participants in the St. Petersburg Dialogue, a Russian-German forum discussed Germany's possible role in the modernization of Russia's economy

*The Russian embassy in Malta is following the situation around a Russian teenager accused by the Mediterranean country of attempted murder, the embassy said

*Anna Chapman, the Russian arrested in the United States on suspicion of spying for Russia, has not been invited to the Moscow premiere of Angelina Jolie's new spy film, a Sony official said

*There is still cause for concern about Iran's nuclear program as signals from the Islamic Republic have been far from encouraging, Russia's envoy to the UN Vitaly Churkin said

*International sanctions against Tehran will not affect Russian-Iranian cooperation, the countries' energy ministers said

*Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, thought to have been abducted by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has left the United States and is on his way to the Islamic Republic, ISNA news agency said

*The possible participation of a strong German partner in the Russian-Italian South Stream gas pipeline project could undermine the rival Nabucco pipeline, Kommersant business daily said

*Iranian Petroleum Minister Masud Mirkazemi will meet with Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko during a one day visit to Moscow on Wednesday, the Russian energy ministry said

*The Israeli parliament deprived a female lawmaker from the Israeli Arab party Balad of three key parliamentary privileges for participating in the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla, local television said

*A Russian citizen deported from the Untied States in the aftermath of the recent U.S.-Russian spy scandal had been living outside Seattle and working for Microsoft

*U.S. authorities have deported a Russian man on charges of violating U.S. immigration laws, which, according to U.S. media reports, is linked to a recent spy scandal between Russia and the United States

RUSSIA

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg for talks

*Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told members of student construction brigades involved in building Olympic facilities in the southern Russian resort of Sochi of his student past

*High temperatures have changed the usual course of people's lives in Moscow, forcing the army to dress down and the changing of the guard to be cancelled

*Russia will pay for the return of emigrant businessmen and their families home, a Russian respected business daily said

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev admitted that his crusade against corruption has so far yielded few practical results

*The Russian Orthodox Church has never pushed to make heresy a criminal offense and described media reports about this as a part of "smear campaign" against the Church, a source from the Church's press department said

*The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council passed a bill prohibiting anyone with a criminal record from serving in the police

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will sign a memorandum of understanding on Russia's Skolkovo innovation hub, Russian Mayak radio station said

*Moscow is planning to attract up to 5 million foreign tourists by the end of 2010 and to double the figure by 2020