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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

 

WORLD

 

* Uzbek President Islam Karimov called on for an international investigation into the violent clashes between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in the south of Kyrgyzstan in June

 

* The eponymous party of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday denied accusations of vaccine procurement fraud involving more than $50 million from 2008 through 2009

 

* The wife of suspected arms trader Viktor Bout, in Thai custody awaiting extradition to the United States on charges of selling weapons to terrorists, sent an open letter to the Thai prime minister saying her husband is innocent

 

* A close ally of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has been called in for questioning by the SBU, Ukraine's security service, her party said

 

* UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Iran to resume negotiations on its nuclear program with the six countries known as the Iran Six

 

* At least 40 servicemen of the Tajik Defense Ministry died in an attack on government troops in the east of the Central Asian country, the Asia-Plus news agency quoted a law enforcement source as saying

 

RUSSIA

 

* The Russian Prosecutor General's Office sent Polish authorities an extradition request for Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev

 

* Spain will extradite the commercial director of a nightclub in the Urals city of Perm where over 150 people died in a fire last December, Russian investigators said

 

* Russia's anti-monopoly watchdog said on Monday it had found Manros-M, a subsidiary of Russia's top dairy producer Wimm-Bill-Dann in the Omsk region in west Siberia, guilty of price-fixing

 

* The wife of Moscow's embattled mayor Yury Luzhkov says the recent media smear campaign against him reveals mounting tensions within the Kremlin ahead of the 2012 presidential polls

 

* Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev has left Poland for London but should return later this week, his representative Adam Borowski said

 

* A Sukhoi Su-27 military aircraft crashed on Monday in the Russian Far East, but both pilots ejected and have been rescued alive, a representative of the Ussuriisk Aircraft Repair Plant said

 

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