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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on called on Israelis and Palestinians to show restraint, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported

* An explosion on an oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico killed two workers and injured several others, the US Coast Guard said

* US lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the “Magnitsky Act” to punish Russians deemed to have violated human rights, and also lifted a landmark Cold War-era law that has long impeded normal US-Russia trade relations

* In a ruling condemned by Serbia, the UN war crimes tribunal overturned the verdicts against two Croatian generals convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity

* Iran has broken up a terror network with links to Israeli and Western intelligence agencies, Iranian state media reported

RUSSIA

* People who are against Jews cannot expect any support in Russia or Germany, President Vladimir Putin said while commenting on the Pussy Riot case

BUSINESS

* Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Germany for involvement in a European Union “cartel” after Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country always coordinates its position with the remaining 26 EU member states

 

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