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19:59 GMT 23.10.2012

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Russian seismologists condemned the conviction of seven Italians of manslaughter for failing to warn residents before an earthquake hit central Italy in 2009.

*Scientists have found that the amount of debris lying on the sea floor in the Arctic has doubled over the past decade, a biologist and deep-sea expert at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Melanie Bergmann, said.

RUSSIA

*The European Parliament recommended that the Council of the European Union impose sanctions against Russian officials involved in the incarceration of Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in pre-trial detention in 2009.

*Three new crewmembers departed on a two-day voyage to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

*A Russian opposition activist was charged with planning mass disorder as the UN agency on refugees demanded an explanation for his disappearance from the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

BUSINESS

*Russian President Vladimir Putin told gas monopoly Gazprom it must develop a new gas export policy to respond to the development of the liquefied natural gas and shale gas markets.

*Keeping Greece in the Eurozone is “already impossible,” and the probability that Italy and Spain will be next is “very high,” former Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin said.

*Perhaps he can still leap tall buildings in a single bound. But the slow, tortuous drowning of traditional print journalism by new online media has, at least for now, humbled even Superman, the iconic American comic-book superhero.

*It is cheaper to send a rocket into space than to drill a single oil well in the Arctic Sea.

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