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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Participants at the International Conference on Afghanistan in Kabul supported a program of national priorities proposed by the country's authorities and vowed to support further efforts to restore security and peace

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived on a two-day visit to Finland in the city of Turku to hold talks with Finnish President Tarja Halonen

* Russia is ready to continue equipping the Afghan army and police force, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told an International Conference on Afghanistan

* A New York city court has arrested a group of alleged drug traffickers, including a Russian charter pilot, a Russian respected business daily said

* The time has come for the international community to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said

* The Israeli Defense Ministry reported that tests of the Iron Dome air defense system are complete and that interceptor missiles will soon be deployed

Two people were killed and five were injured when a bomb went off in Kabul ahead of the International Conference on Afghanistan

* A delegation of U.S. experts arrived in Moscow for the forth round of talks on child adoption

* Two-day military exercises involving NATO fighter jets began at the Adazi training ground outside Riga

RUSSIA

* One of the alleged female suicide bombers detained last week in Russia's Dagestan was planning a terrorist attack on Moscow in July, a high-ranking police source said

* The Other Russia opposition party, whose official program was published on Tuesday, wants to build a new capital "from scratch" in South Siberia

* The Russian industrial safety watchdog has drawn up a list of people whose possible negligence may have led to blasts which killed dozens of miners in Western Siberia in May, a business daily said

BUSINESS

* Russian leasing company Ilyushin Finance and the Irkut aircraft maker signed a memorandum of intent to buy 28 MS-21 passenger airliners with an option for another 22 aircraft

* Russia is to sell around 300 MiG- and Su-family warplanes at home and abroad by 2015, Sukhoi and MiG companies said

* Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and Thailand's Orient Thai Airlines signed a memorandum of intent on the delivery of 12 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft and an option on 12 more airliners

* Russian state-owned Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML) increased its forecast for 2010 housing mortgage lending by 12-14%, the agency said in a statement

* Russian leasing company Ilyushin Finance signed a contract to purchase 10 An-158 planes from Ukraine's Antonov aircraft holding company with an option to buy 10 more, the companies said

* Russia's Central Bank has warned that 209 banks presently fail to meet the minimum capital requirement of 180 million rubles ($5.8 million) to be introduced in 2012, a bank official said

* Russia's Vnesheconombank (VEB) expects the $6.7 billion the bank issued to local companies to refinance foreign debt in peak crisis months will be repaid by this fall, VEB head Vladimir Dmitriyev said

* Russia's Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works has dropped its plans to build a steel plant in the United States amid doubts over the recovery of the U.S. demand for steel, Kommersant business paper reported

*Russian developer DON-Stroy will sell its business centre NordStar Tower to repay its 20 billion rouble debt to Sberbank, Kommersant business daily said

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