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19:59 GMT 30.09.2012

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

Jiri Sklenka, the head of security detail for Czech President Vaclav Klaus, has resigned after his subordinates failed to prevent a mock ‘assassination’ attempt on the president, Ceske Noviny publication reported.

A bilateral agreement on non-visa travel between Russia and Macau comes into effect, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

A Canadian citizen, who was the last Western prisoner at the U.S. Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba, has been transferred to Canada after a decade in custody on terrorism and murder charges, the U.S. Department of Defense said.

Alleged top-secret Syrian intelligence documents recently obtained by Al Arabiya shed a new light on Russia’s role in the downing of a Turkish military jet in June by Syrian air defenses, the Saudi-owned news channel reported.

A suspected insider attack by Afghan security forces has killed a NATO service member and an international civilian contractor, the NATO-led coalition said.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sheltering inside Ecuador’s embassy in London demonstrated his living and working conditions to journalists, The Daily Mail reported.

At least 23 people have been killed and more than 25 wounded in a series of gun and bomb attacks across Iraq, including capital Baghdad, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday, citing local authorities.

At least 12 people were injured after anti-austerity protesters clashed with riot police in Madrid, Spanish media reported.

The Japanese government issued possible evacuation warnings for over 100,000 people on Sunday as Typhoon Jelawat raged across the main island of Honshu, NHK television reported.

Southwest Colombia was hit by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake on Sunday, the US Geological Service reported.

Around 1,500 demonstrators protested outside the Justice Ministry in Brussels on Sunday to protest rising economic inequality in Belgium, local media reported.

Japanese police cleared cars left by protesters to block the roads to an American military base on the island of Okinawa, in protest at the basing of 12 Bell-Boeing MV-22 tiltrotor aircraft there on Monday, Kyodo news reported.

RUSSIA

The Russian Orthodox Church believes repentance will “benefit the souls” of Pussy Riot feminist punkers and a Moscow court that will hear an appeal against their jail term should respond to this act, the Church said.

At least nine people were injured when a car driven by a drunk driver ran into the back of a passenger minivan on a highway in the Nizhny Novgorod region, traffic police reported.

Moscow police have detained more than 230 drunk drivers in the Russian capital in the last twenty-four hours, the local Interior Ministry’s press office reported.

DEFENSE

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin promised on Sunday to hand out punishment to those who have been involved in illegally privatizing elements of Russia's military-industrial complex.

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