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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The U.S. Congress indefinitely postponed debate on two disputed anti-piracy bills, two days after protest blackouts by hundreds of websites including online encyclopedia Wikipedia

* French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged “more decisive” sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program but warned that time was running out to avoid military intervention

* Russia gave the Taliban "the finger" when the Islamist Afghan regime proposed in 2001 that Russia join in an anti-U.S. alliance, former Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told BBC in a documentary

RUSSIA

* Russian billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov published his election program on his website

* The Russian Air Force took delivery of the first Antonov An-140-100 passenger/transport plane, Defense Ministry spokesman Col Vladimir Drik said

* Chief of the PACE electoral mission Tiny Kox has pledged to include complaints voiced by the Liberal Democratic and Communist parties in his final report on Russia’s parliamentary polls

* The Moscow authorities have received a request from Russian nationalist movements to authorize a rally for 50,000 people in central Moscow on February 4, a deputy mayor of the Russian capital said

* Yevgeny Chichvarkin, the founder and former CEO of leading Russian handset retailer Euroset, no longer figures in the theft of a large quantity of mobile phones, as recent legal changes have rendered the case moot, Chichvarkin's lawyer Yury Gervis said

* Russia’s ruling United Russia party could split into a number of factions in response to the "new realities" created by popular protests against alleged vote fraud in December 4 parliamentary elections

* Russia’s Central Electoral Commission has denied registration to three presidential candidates as they failed to submit two million signatures, as well as other documents

* A meeting with opposition delegates has not been included in Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s agenda yet but the premier is ready for such a dialog, his spokesman said

SPORTS

* The Russian national hockey team powered into the Youth Olympics final with a 5-2 thrashing of the United States

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