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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Ukraine and the EU reached an agreement on an action plan to scrap visas for Ukrainian nationals for short stays in the EU, European Parliament President Herman Van Rompuy said

* The 1994 EU-Russia partnership and cooperation agreement on energy is outdated and a new deal is necessary, the European commissioner for energy said

* An outbreak of cholera in the Caribbean state of Haiti has claimed the lives of some 1,250 people, the EFE news agency said

* The NS Spirit tanker owned by Novoship, part of Russia's largest shipping company Sovcomflot, was attacked by pirates off the coast of Nigeria

* A Moscow-bound Boeing 767 with 193 passengers on board made an emergency lading shortly after takeoff from New York's JFK airport

* The world's tallest statue of Jesus Christ was unveiled on Sunday in the town of Swiebodzin in western Poland, the TVN24 channel reported

RUSSIA

* Over 180 residents of the southern Russian village of Kushchevskaya, which recently saw a bloodbath in which 12 people were slain, will be received by Russia's top investigator Alexander Bastrykin

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will address on Tuesday the International Tiger Conservation Forum hosted by the northwestern Russian city of St. Petersburg, the government press service said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao, who has arrived in Russia on a working visit, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed developing a system to reduce the amount of work faced by judges

* Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin ordered a review of the capital's metro development plans

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed punishing officials who fail to answer citizens' complaints in a timely manner

* Russian vaccine developers will join forces in a bid to produce new, effective HIV vaccines, the head of one of the companies said

* Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is being made into a scapegoat and has been transformed into a "substitute" for Osama bin Laden, his wife Alla said

BUSINESS

* The Russian Finance Ministry plans to tighten control over foreign trade operations by classifying some of them as money laundering, in a move analysts say is a tool to tackle the capital outflow problem, Vedomosti business daily said

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