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20:59 GMT 08.02.2011

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russia expelled The Guardian Moscow correspondent Luke Harding for violating regulations governing the work of foreign correspondents in the country, the Foreign Ministry said

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on the Japanese authorities to prosecute Japanese radicals for desecrating a Russian flag during protests over a territorial dispute between the two countries

* Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered on Cairo's central Tahrir Square, marking the beginning of a third week of anti-government protests in Egypt

* Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has formed a panel to oversee constitutional amendments, the country's vice president said on Tuesday, as anti-government protests entered their third week

RUSSIA

* Two senior Russian anti-terrorism officials have been sacked for failing to prevent a deadly terrorist attack on Moscow's busiest airport last month

* Russian police have arrested two suspects in connection with a suicide attack on Moscow's busiest airport last month, a lawmaker said, citing investigators

* Russia will stick to summer time and not switch to daylight saving time on the last Sunday of October as it has done since 1981, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said

* A Russian man was given a five-year suspended sentence for stealing $10 million from a former division of the Royal Bank of Scotland

BUSINESS

* Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation dismissed media reports that it had left talks with France on the purchase of four Mistral class amphibious assault ships

* PepsiCo, which has recently bought 76.98% of Russian dairy and juice maker Wimm-Bill-Dann (WBD) will receive a 31.37 billion ruble ($1.06 billion) loan from WBD to purchase the remaining shares from minorities, Vedomosti business daily reported

* Russia's trade surplus grew 24.7% in 2010 to $167.5 billion, the Federal Customs Service said