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19:58 GMT 14.04.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

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* A bus carrying Russian youngsters crashed near Antwerp in Belgium on Sunday, killing at least five people, Russia’s Federal Tourism Agency spokeswoman Irina Shchegolkova said

* Guards of the US Guantanamo prison fired less-than-lethal rounds in a clash with detainees wielding "improvised weapons," the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said

* Though the majority of US officials banned from Russia in response to the US blacklist published on Friday are linked high-profile cases against Russians in the United States, the judge who sentenced Russian national Viktor Bout to 25 years in prison for arms trafficking was not included in the list

* The Iranian Military has successfully test-fired three new domestically produced missiles, the Fars News Agency reported

* Cuban footballer Erick Hernandez set a world record on Saturday by bouncing a ball with his head 350 times in a minute and devoted it to a Venezuelan presidential candidate, Juventud Rebelde reported

* Following a deadly air raid that killed 17 people, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday the international forces in Afghanistan have violated his presidential decree banning airstrikes on residential areas

* Venezuelans are voting Sunday in a key presidential election that will test the socialist legacy of late President Hugo Chavez

* North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has not been seen in public for the past two weeks, sparking speculation amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Yonhap news agency reported

* Fernando Alonso won his first Formula One Grand Prix of the season in China on Sunday with a superior pit strategy and straight-line speed

* Four more people in China were reported to be infected with a lesser known strain of bird flu, H7N9, bringing the total number of avian influenza cases to 55 since late March, Xinhua news agency reported

* US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon will become the first senior US official who will feel the consequences of the US sanctions under the Magnitsky Act, Alexei Pushkov, the head of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, said

* Visitors were given a chance to taste pieces of the interior of the Chocolate Room in Minsk, Belarus, on the final day of the exposition

* The Belarusian Investigation Committee has opened a criminal case against a staff member who aired pornography at daytime on Belarusian music TV channel BelMuzTV, the committee said

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* The publication by the United States of a blacklist of Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky is a “blow” to bilateral relations and interference in Russia’s domestic affairs, the Russian presidential spokesman said

* All protestors detained during Saturday’s unsanctioned rallies in Moscow were released on the same day, a spokesman for the Moscow police department said

* Russian energy giant Gazprom is to become the title sponsor of a multi-nation league known as the South East Handball Association, the Russian Handball Union reported

* A Syrian Airlines plane carrying more than 30 tons of humanitarian aid for the victims of the ongoing conflict in Syria has landed in Damascus, Russia's embassy in the Syrian capital said

* Almost 900 kilograms (2,000 lbs) of Afghan heroin were seized in Russia in the first three months of 2013, the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) said

* Russia could introduce tighter passport regulations for citizens of former Soviet states crossing Russia’s borders already this year, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said

* Russia is preparing to enhance sanitary control measures in case the situation over the bird flu in China deteriorates, Russia's chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said