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A roundup of that has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Belgium declared a national day of mourning after a Belgian tourist bus crashed in Switzerland, killing 28 people, many of them children, the French-language RTBF broadcaster said

* Azerbaijan’s National Security Ministry has detained 22 people accused of spying for Iran and other crimes, the ministry said

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said deputy ministers as well as chiefs of federal services could be appointed on a competitive basis

* Russia will accept into service three battalions of S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems in 2012, Air Force chief of staff Major General Viktor Bondarev said

* The recent steps by western countries introducing travel bans against Russian officials linked to the high-profile death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 are nothing but a PR stunt, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* The Russian Defense Ministry is planning to dispose of four million obsolete guns, mainly Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles, by 2015, the Russian daily Izvestia reported

BUSINESS

* The Russian Armed Forces will take delivery of the first 57 Italian Lince (Lynx) light multirole armored vehicles (LMV) before the end of the current year, Defense Ministry press secretary Irina Kovalchuk said

* Gazprom-Media Holding, which comprises Gazprom's television, radio, printing press, cinema production, advertising, movie theaters and internet assets, is ready for an Initial Public Offering, Director General Nikolay Senkevich said

SPORTS

* The head of Russian football threatened to close the stadiums of clubs unable to keep the pitch in good shape

* SKA St. Petersburg crushed Atlant Moscow Region 4-0 on home ice to take the lead in their KHL Western Conference semifinal series