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19:59 GMT 17.09.2012

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

RUSSIA

* Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at a military training range in southern Russia to oversee the Caucasus-2012 strategic command-and-staff exercises.

* The Prosecutor General’s Office has declared the film “Innocence of Muslims” extremist and will seek a court ruling to ban the controversial video in Russia, its spokeswoman said.

* Russia and South Africa are discussing the possibility of joint development of defense-related products, Russia’s state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport said.

WORLD

* Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has called for new protests in Lebanon over a movie thought to be offensive to Muslims.

* About 50 police were injured in violent demonstrations in Kabul over a recent U.S.-made film considered anti-Islamic, according to Afghan news outlet Khaama Press.

* Police in Pakistani city of Karachi arrested at least 30 students as they attempted to march on the U.S. Consulate in protest over a recent U.S.-made film considered anti-Islamic, DawnNews television said.

* The Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney continues to lose support among the Latino electorate in the United States, Latino Decisions said citing the results of its latest weekly political tracking poll.

* The U.S. National Security Archive has fully declassified the most controversial nuclear policy document of the Cold War – the Presidential Directive 59 (PD-59), which focused on a possible nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

* Italian weekly magazine Chi has become the third media outlet to publish topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, as lawyers for the British royal family prepared to go to court to stop further publication of the snaps.

* A monument to members of Latvia’s Waffen SS legion was unveiled in a Latvian town, the country’s media reported.

BUSINESS

* Russia's Central Bank announced the long-awaited sale of a 7.58 percent stake in the nation's largest lender Sberbank in a secondary public offering, in a deal which could be worth around $5 billion.

* The board of directors of Russian oil giant Rosneft approved an increase in dividends for 2011 to 25 percent of IFRS net profit.

* Russian car manufacturer AvtoVaz has discontinued its series of iconic Lada Classic automobiles.

DEFENSE

* Russia will reactivate mothballed ballistic missile silos around Moscow as part of deep modernization of a missile defense network protecting the Russian capital, former chief of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, Col. Gen. (Ret) Viktor Yesin said.

* Malfunctions during sea trials of the Indian Navy aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, refitted by a Russian shipyard, will delay the vessel’s handover to India yet again, Kommersant business daily reported.

* The Pakistan Army carried out a successful test-firing of a Hatf-7 (Babur) nuclear-capable cruise missile on Monday, DawnNews reported.

* Washington and Tokyo agreed to install a second radar-based defense system in Japan aimed at countering the potential missile threat from North Korea, the New York Times reported.

SPACE

* A Soyuz reentry capsule with three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew landed safely in Kazakhstan.

* A Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying a European weather satellite lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said.

SPORTS

* Russian forward Andrei Arshavin has been left out of Arsenal's 18-man squad for Tuesday's Champions League opener against Montpellier in France.

* Two-time KHL champion Ak Bars Kazan has spiked rumors that a lockout signing with Detroit Red Wings star forward Pavel Datsyuk is imminent.

* New Jersey Devils forward Ilya Kovalchuk is to sign a lockout contract with SKA St. Petersburg, the Russian team announced.

* Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nikolai Kulemin has signed a lockout contract with his hometown team Metallurg Magnitogorsk.