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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Israel’s armed forces have opened tank fire on Syria confirming direct hits after a mortar shell from Syria landed in Israeli territory, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported

* European Council President Herman Van Rompuy called on Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili to engage in dialog with President Mikheil Saakashvili to find a solution to the constitutional struggle taking place between the president and premier in Tbilisi

* The Polish military prosecutor exhumed the remains of two of the victims of the 2010 Smolensk air crash disaster, in which the Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed, on suspicion that there may have been a mix-up over the bodies, local media reports

* UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over reports of clashes on the Syrian-Israeli border in the area of Golan Heights, urging both countries to exercise restraint

* Moscow police have detained six suspected members of the Islamic Revival Party for allegedly recruiting volunteers in the city’s mosques, a police spokesman said

* The Greek parliament adopted the crisis budget for 2013, needed to unlock another bailout installment from international lenders

RUSSIA

* The authorities of Ingushetia have persuaded 46 militants and their accomplices to turn themselves in to law enforcement officers over the past 18 months, Akhmed Kotiyev, the secretary of the Russian North Caucasus republic’s security council, said

* The operation of law enforcement agencies is not enough for Russia: the country also needs dialog between its society and authorities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said

* Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the new make-up of the Kremlin’s council on human rights and civil society

* A leftist activist who says he was tortured into confessing to a plot to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin gave investigators money supplied by the influential Georgian politician who financed the alleged conspiracy, according to the final page of the activist’s disputed confession published in the Russian media

BUSINESS

* Russia and Slovenia should more actively get involved in work to diversify their trade relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa

DEFENSE

* Kyrgyz and US servicemen are rehearsing joint emergency and anti-terror operations in the country’s Batken region, Kyrgyzstan’s Defense Ministry said

ART&LIVING

* Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia finally consecrated a Russian cathedral in a Jerusalem suburb on Monday, just over a century after construction began at the site

SPORTS

* Roger Federer beat local favorite Andy Murray in front of the London crowd to reach the final of the season-ending Tour Finals for the eighth time