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Main News of April 9

20:49 GMT 09.04.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Moscow will push to normalize the situation on the Korean Peninsula, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* At least 32 people were killed after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the Bushehr province in southern Iran on Tuesday, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported citing the governor of Bushehr

* Iran plans to build a new 360-MW nuclear power plant in the south of the country, Naser Shariflou, a former manager of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, said on Tuesday, according to the IRNA news agency

* North Korea released a new warning on Tuesday urging foreigners to evacuate neighboring South Korea over what it says is the rising risk of war on the peninsula

RUSSIA

* The Russian Ministry of Justice said it was filing a legal suit against an election monitoring non-governmental organization, Golos (Voice), under the recently introduced law on “foreign agents”

POLITICS

* A Russian deputy from the northwestern Leningrad Region’s legislative assembly, who is also the leader of the ruling United Russia party’s regional branch, has asked US President Barack Obama to put him on the so-called Magnitsky List, the party reported

* Armenian incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan was sworn in on Tuesday after being reelected as the country’s leader in February presidential elections

DEFENSE

* The United States is capable of shooting down a missile launched by North Korea but may opt not to depending on the threat presented by such an action, the top US military commander in the Pacific said

* Topol (SS-25 Sickle) intercontinental ballistic missiles will be put on full alert in the course of ongoing drills at the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) Tagil Division in the Urals region, SMF spokesman Col. Igor Yegorov said

* The US Navy has unveiled a new ship-mounted laser cannon it plans to deploy next year in the Middle East near Iran that runs off of electricity and is capable of incinerating a drone and disabling small boats at an estimated cost of less than $1 per blast

ART&LIVING

* The head of the Russian Orthodox Church on Tuesday criticized extreme forms of feminism but said women may well build a career, be involved in business activities and politics if those occupations are not in conflict with family values

BUSINESS

* Google was under fire Tuesday from rival tech companies, including Microsoft, who say the California tech giant is handing over customers’ private data to app developers and using unfair practices to dominate the mobile marketplace in Europe

* Russia’s parliament approved President Vladimir Putin’s nominee, former Economics Minister Elvira Nabiullina, as the new head of Russia’s central bank

SPORTS

* An anti-hooliganism bill designed to ensure public safety at Russian sporting events by banning violent or abusive fans for up to one year was adopted by the State Duma

* Canada demolished Russia 8-1 in the semifinals of the world women’s hockey championships to continue its defense of the title in a final against the United States in Ottawa

CRIME

* A court in Russia’s Vladimir Region has placed a book written by a former Russian military intelligence (GRU) officer, convicted of plotting a coup, on the list of banned extremist literature, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said