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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The principles of the Helsinki Final Act are outdated and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) needs a new fundamental document that would take into account new realities, a Russian expert told RIA Novosti

* Mexico's Foreign Ministry announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Honduras and the return of its ambassador to the Central American country

* The death toll in a road accident in south Kazakhstan has risen to 20 people and another 28 persons have been injured, the republic's emergencies ministry reported

* China has successfully launched its fifth navigation satellite into orbit as part of a project to develop its own global satellite navigation system, official news agency Xinhua reported

* Ukraine's government has raised domestic household gas prices by a staggering 50% from August 1 as part of its measures to balance the budget and get much-needed funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

* Bulgarian archeologists have found supposed hallows of John the Baptist near the Bulgarian city of Sozopol, the Novoinite.com news agency reported

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych pledged Ukraine will assist Russia with fire-fighting

RUSSIA

* Deputy Premier Igor Sechin on Monday will launch hydropower unit 4 of Siberia's Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydropower Plant, damaged in a deadly accident last August

* One of the two International Space Station's (ISS) cooling systems went wrong after a pump failure, the NASA website said

* Rescuers and firefighters have reduced the nationwide area on fire from 18,000 hectares to 11,000 hectares by August 1, however new wildfires threaten the country

* The Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg will lend legal assistance to three colleagues who were arrested on Saturday in time of an un authorized March of Dissent in the center of the second Russian city of St. Petersburg

SPORTS

* Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has advanced to the finals of the Stanford Cup in California after beating Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska 1-6, 6-2, 6-2

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