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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours 13.06.2012, Sputnik International

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged the UN Security Council to comment on the recent detention of International Criminal Court staff in Libya, saying the actions of Libya’s authorities have violated a UN Security Council resolution

*The head of Kazakhstan’s Border Service, Nurzhan Myrzaliyev, resigned following a May 30 border post massacre in southwestern Kazakhstan which left 15 people dead, a statement posted on the Kazakh president’s website reads

*France will ask the United States and its EU partners to impose a new set of sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, French Foreign Minister Lorain Fabius said

RUSSIA

*Russia is opposed to unilateral sanctions against Iran and urges action based on UN resolutions, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

*The editor-in-chief of Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta accused the head of the country’s Investigative Committee of voicing death threats toward one of the newspaper’s staffers

*Russia dismissed claims by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it was selling attack helicopters to Syria and accused the United States of arming rebels fighting against the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

SPORTS

*Russia’s Elena Vesnina reached the third round of the AEGON Classic in Birmingham on Wednesday after surprising seventh seed Christina McHale in a three-set thriller

*Substitute Silvestre Varela hit an 87th-minute winner to give Portugal a 3-2 win over Denmark in their Euro 2012 Group B encounter in Lviv

*Russia is to appeal a suspended six-point penalty for crowd disturbances involving their fans at Russia’s opening game of Euro 2012, Russian Football Union president Sergei Fursenko told R-Sport

*Russia’s football authorities have been fined €120,000 and given a suspended six-point deduction for crowd disturbances involving its fans at their opening game of Euro 2012, UEFA said

*UEFA condemned the violence that led to more than 180 arrests of Polish and Russian fans before their teams' Euro 2012 match in Warsaw, calling the clashes "isolated"

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