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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The European Commission confirms its willingness to participate in the upgrade of the Ukrainian gas transportation system, Ukraine's Unian news agency reported

* Thai authorities arrested two Lebanese nationals after the United States warned that terrorists may be plotting attacks in Bangkok, the Thai newspaper The Nation reported

* Egypt’s Islamist parties, the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Salafi Nour party have so far secured 71 percent of the votes at the first post-revolution parliamentary elections, the Al-Masry Al-Youm reported

RUSSIA

* Russia’s election chief said he was “offended” by insults against his person following the country’s disputed parliamentary polls

* Russia’s acquittal of the son of Tajikistan's railway boss, convicted for drug trafficking, is not linked to the release of a Russian pilot jailed in Tajikistan, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired Arkhangelsk Region governor Ilya Mikhalchuk, whom he had earlier reprimanded over problems in the region’s public utilities sector

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the funeral of a legendary World War II Soviet agent, Gevork Vartanyan, who is believed to have saved the lives of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during the Tehran Conference in 1943

* Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov said he had collected the two million signatures required to get him registered as an independent presidential candidate for the March 4 elections

SPORTS

* The first-ever Winter Youth Olympic Games opened in Innsbruck, Austria, bringing together a thousand 14- to 18-year-old athletes from over 60 nations to the winter sports capital

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