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Roundup of what has happened over the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The UN Security Council extended the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) by one year

* Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has ordered troops and police to cease fire in the town of Khorog in Tajikistan’s restive Badakhshan region, with authorities starting talks with militants after gun battles have left at least 40 dead, a local official said

* Japan is studying possible variants for jointly using the disputed Kuril Islands with Russia, Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said

RUSSIA

* Russia accused Western powers of encouraging terrorism over their refusal to condemn the suicide bombing that killed Syria’s defense minister last week

* An order to impose a state of emergency in the southern Russian town of Krymsk, where over 150 people died in flooding earlier this month, was backdated to make it appear that it had been issued earlier, investigators said

* Hundreds of human fetuses discovered earlier this week in a forest in Russia’s Urals region were possibly intended for use in scientific research, a local police spokesman said

SPORTS

* The national Olympic committee of Georgia is complaining to London Games organizers that they have identified South Ossetia and an Abkhazian town as being part of Russia

* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been denied accreditation to the London Olympics because of the flawed presidential elections of 2010, the British Embassy in Belarus announced

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