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19:59 GMT 29.03.2012

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours.

WORLD

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on Arab League member states to join forces in order to find a solution to the crisis in Syria as soon as possible, the Kremlin website said

* Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) currently visting Kiev met on Thursday with Ukraine's jailed former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko, his wife said

* UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said on Thursday time was running out for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to act on a UN-backed peace plan for the country

RUSSIA

* U.S. Congressman Gregory Meeks has criticized U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for calling Russia the main geopolitical foe for America, Politico.com reported

* A Siberian regional legislature submitted to the Russian parliament a bill to make promotion of homosexuality among minors an administrative offense, the State Duma said

* A battalion commander who died after acting as a human shield to protect a soldier from a grenade blast on Wednesday probably saved dozens of lives, an army officer said

* A growing number of Russians are critical of the behavior of the U.S. and Georgia, a survey conducted by the independent Levada pollster showed

* Muscovites are mourning the victims of twin rush-hour bomb attacks on the Moscow metro two years ago

BUSINESS

* The shareholders in the big Shtokman gas project in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea agreed at a meeting on Thursday to postpone a final investment decision until July 1, project operator Shtokman Development AG said

SPORTS

* Slovakian ice hockey club Slovan Bratislava has applied to join the KHL as an expansion team next season, the league said

* World No. 1 Viktoria Azarenka has suffered her first defeat of 2012, slumping to a straight sets defeat to former Wimbledon finalist Marion Bartoli at the Miami Open