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A roundup of what has happened over the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Mexico's Interjet airline is to take up an option to buy five more Sukhoi Superjet 100 airliners in addition to the 15 planes previously ordered, Interjet Board Chairman Miguel Alemаn Velasco said at the Farnborough airshow in Britain on Tuesday

*A Polish court has freed two Russian football fans jailed for their part in Euro 2012 riots, but left a third in prison

*The lower house of the Egyptian parliament reconvened on Tuesday despite the Constitutional Court’s decision to dissolve it

RUSSIA

*Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for amendments to a controversial bill that would force non-governmental organizations (NGOs) funded from abroad and engaged in political activity to declare themselves “foreign agents"

*Several dozen volunteers worked for a third straight day in downtown Moscow on Tuesday to organize aid for Black Sea towns hit by deadly flooding, in the latest example of the growth of civil activism in Russia

*Russian Lower House of Parliament, the State Duma, ratified on Tuesday adoption deals with the United States and France, stipulating that a Russian child can only be adopted by a foreign family if no Russian parents can be found at home

*Moscow’s announcement on Monday that it was refusing to make new arms sales to Syria came unexpectedly, after top Russian diplomats previously staunchly defended Russia’s right to supply arms to the embattled Assad regime

*A Just Russia party has urged the president to fire the governor of Russia's flood-stricken Krasnodar Territory and repeated calls for an investigation into the disaster, party leader Sergei Mironov said on Tuesday

SPORTS

*Russia is to send 436 athletes to the London Olympics, slightly fewer than attend Beijing in 2008, though the number is yet to be confirmed by the Russian sports ministry, R-Sport understands

*The World Boxing Association has announced a July 19 purse bid for cruiserweight champion Guillermo Jones' mandatory bout against Russia's interim champion Denis Lebedev

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