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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Kyrgyzstan's Central Election Committee completed counting the ballots for the Central Asian country's first parliamentary elections after the ousting of ex-president Kurmanbek Bakiyev

* Toxic sludge from a burst reservoir at an alumina plant in Hungary may reach Ukrainian territory next week, Ukraine's environment ministry said

* Two U.S. and one UK economist were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for research on how policy affects unemployment

* Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi is in Baku to discuss the development of military cooperation between Iran and Azerbaijan, as well as regional security, the Azerbaijani news agency APA said

* Afghan President Hamid Karzai has confirmed that talks with the Taliban have been going on for “quite some time” to end the fighting in the war-ravaged Central Asian state

RUSSIA

* International consortium Sea Launch plans to resume Zenit-3SL carrier rocket launches from its floating platform in the Pacific Ocean in 2011, the head of the Russian Rocket and Space Corporation Energia said

BUSINESS

* Russia will invest over $400 billion in the development of its gas sector by 2030, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said

* The Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (Rusnano) plans to acquire a share in a U.S. Silicon Valley company by the end of 2010, Rusnano head Anatoly Chubais said

* The U.S. Armadillo Aerospace company, which is developing the suborbital spaceship for space tourist flights, announced that a Russian has become its first confirmed passenger

* The Russian government should encourage the business community to take risks since few businessmen are ready to invest in high-risk projects, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said

* The Skolkovo Innovation Center near Moscow, dubbed Russia's "Silicon Valley," will need a financial injection of up to 200 billion rubles ($6.7 billion) over three to five years, Russian tycoon and president of the project Viktor Vekselberg said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on a visit to Russia's high-tech research hub outside Moscow

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