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19:59 GMT 12.07.2011

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*The possible deployment of a NATO missile defense shield in Europe is the only disputable point between Russia and NATO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

*Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed his half brother Akhmed Wali Karzai 's assassination in the city of Kandahar on Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported

*The EU has postponed a decision to grant Ukraine a loan to modernize its gas transport system at least until this fall, the Kommersant-Ukraina daily reported

*Akhmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, was killed in the city of Kandahar on Tuesday, a source in the Afghan Interior Ministry said

*The United States will support Russia's crisis mediation efforts in Libya provided embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi steps down, President Barack Obama told his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev

*The Middle East Quartet of negotiators again urged the Israelis and Palestinians to resume direct talks without any preconditions, a high-ranking U.S. official said

*Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou urged the EU to take "forceful decisions" to save his country from defaulting on its debt as Eurogroup failed to give nay details of further bailout support

RUSSIA

*A faulty cabin porthole helped the Minnekaherov couple, their 14-month-old child and relatives survive the fatal sinking of the Bulgaria riverboat on Sunday

*A Russian Mi-8 helicopter crash landed on Tuesday in the northern Komi Republic with no casualties, the Russian Investigative Committee said

*Criminal cases have been opened against the captains of two vessels that did not render aid to the Bulgaria riverboat, which sank in Russia's Volga River, the Russian Investigative Committee said

*Members of the expedition on the delimitation of the Russian Arctic shelf on the research vessel Akademik Fyodorov have begun seismic studies in the area north of Franz Josef Land, a representative of the Rosatom Flot (Russian Atomic Fleet) company Ekaterina Ananyeva said

*Russia's Defense Ministry can buy foreign military equipment if domestically produced gear is overpriced, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said

*Divers began recovering the bodies of the children who drowned on board the riverboat Bulgaria which sank in Russia's river Volga on Sunday, an emergency salvage team spokesman said

*President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted amendments to the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, introducing chemical castration for criminals guilty of sexual offences against children, a Duma official said

*The defense counsel for former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partners Platon Lebedev will lodge a new complaint against their verdict, lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant said

*Russian salvage teams will begin an operation on July 16 to raise the wreck of the tour ship Bulgaria, which sank on Sunday in Russia's Volga River leaving dozens dead, Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu said

*Relatives of those killed in the crash of an An-24 airliner in Siberia on Monday will receive 1 million rubles ($35,500) in compensation per family, the local authorities said

*A football fan, who carried a banana in his bag, has been briefly detained before a match in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, the official website of Russia's First Division said