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19:59 GMT 18.07.2010

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* At least 12 people died in a bus crash in South Ossetia that an emergencies official said occurred when the driver swerved to avoid a truck and lost control on the slippery road.

* Everyone on the bus that crashed in South Ossetia was a Russian citizen, the South Ossetian Interior Ministry said.

* Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh arrived in Nicaragua for an official visit and was welcomed at the airport by Foreign Minister Samuel Santos and an honor guard.

* A suicide bomber killed four and injured 23 people in an attack targeting a NATO convoy, an Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman said.

* The United States is ready to help the interim government of Kyrgyzstan stabilize the situation in the country's south, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg said.

RUSSIA

* The parliament of Bashkortostan will on Monday consider the nomination of Rustem Khamitov to be the new president of the Russian Volga republic.

* The abnormal heat that has smothered Russia since mid-June is destroying crops in southern Russia, the Emergencies Ministry said

DEFENSE

* Fifteen Ukrainian, U.S. and Turkish warships sailed out of Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa to begin the active phase of the Sea Breeze 2010 exercises.

* Kazakhstan's president said his country was ready to be a part of the Nabucco gas pipeline, but called on the European Union to do more to make its participation in the project possible.

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