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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* New York's South District prosecutors have sent a memorandum to the Federal Court showing arguments they will produce before a jury on a case against Russian businessman Viktor Bout, dubbed by the press as the Merchant of Death

* The head of Turkey's Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Isik Kosaner, and the entire military command resigned after a row with the government, local NTV channel said

* Poland released its final report on the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski last year, suggesting that both the Polish flight crew and Russian air traffic controllers were at fault

* Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Bogdan Klich

* Moscow police have charged a British man with organizing illegal casinos in Moscow and put other foreigners implicated in the case on the wanted list, police said

* Nigerian Chigbo Peter Umeh, the accomplice of a Russian pilot convicted of drug dealing, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail by a New York court

* Anders Breivik, accused of killing over 70 people in Oslo in two terror attacks last Friday, planned to carry out more attacks on the same day, his lawyer has said

RUSSIA

* Russia's Black Sea Fleet will be strengthened with six Kilo class diesel-electric submarines in the next few years, Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said

* The Russian Navy will receive at least eight Graney class nuclear-powered attack submarines in the next decade, Navy chief Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said

* Moscow police have charged a British man with organizing illegal casinos in Moscow and put other foreigners implicated in the case on the wanted list, police said

BUSINESS

* Moody's international rating agency has placed Spain's Aa2 long-term sovereign rating on a CreditWatch list, the agency said