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20:59 GMT 07.02.2011

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* South Sudan has voted to become independent from the rest of the country with a majority of 98%, the head of the referendum commission said

* Israel has rejected a request from the Egyptian authorities to send more troops to the Sinai Peninsula, Israeli media reported

* Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak shortened a curfew in the country by one hour following a slight return of stability to the country, Egypt's state television said

* Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency included ex-President Pervez Musharraf in the list of suspects in the 2007 murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto

* The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has accused a number of diplomatic missions of attempting to smuggle weapons and special communication equipment into the country, the Youm7 web portal reported

* Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak remained in power as talks between his government and the opposition failed to persuade demonstrators in central Cairo to give up their two-week long protest

RUSSIA

* Luke Harding, The Guardian's Moscow correspondent, was deported from Russia upon his arrival at an airport in the capital, the British paper said

* Russia's Presidential Council on human rights dismissed media rumors that it would ask the Russian leadership to pardon jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky

* The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned provocative actions of Japanese extremists in connection with a long-standing territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed into law a bill significantly cutting the number of police officers in Russia and introducing reforms intended to improve the image of the country's law enforcement system

* Moscow subway head Dmitry Gayev resigned amid allegations of an unlawful diversion of funds, spokesperson for the Moscow mayor Gulnara Penkova said

BUSINESS

* A court in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis has ordered Russia's largest nickel miner Norilsk Nickel to suspend its $4.5 billion buyback program following a suit from shareholder RusAl, the world's largest aluminum producer, Norilsk said

* Shareholders of two Russian major fertilizer producers, Uralkali and Silvinit, have approved a merger to create one of the world's largest potash producers by May 2011, Uralkali said

*Russia's Irkut aircraft manufacturing corporation plans to start placing additional shares on February 7 to raise up to 5.9 billion rubles ($200 million) and boost its authorized capital by 25%, Irkut said

SPORTS

*The Russian tennis team reached second place in revised Federation Cup rankings, the biggest international women's team tennis championship

* Formula One's Marussia Virgin Racing team unveiled the MVR-02 car at the BBC in London