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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

 

* The head of Libya's rebel National Transitional Council said that Muammar Gaddafi should receive a fair trial

 

* Libyan rebels do not know embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi's whereabouts but are trying to find him, Transitional National Council head Mustafa Abdul Jalil said

 

* The Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees' military wing has declared a temporary ceasefire after a four-day exchange of fire with Israel, Palestinian news agency Maan said

 

* Polish prosecutors have charged two senior officers who trained pilots who flew the plane that crashed in western Russia with President Lech Kaczynski on board in April 2010

 

RUSSIA

 

* St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko took a further step towards Russia's third-highest political post as the Russian parliament's upper house speaker, when she sent a letter of resignation from her current post to President Dmitry Medvedev

 

* Russia will not provide Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi with a safe haven, the head of the State Duma's international affairs committee said

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