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20:25 GMT 26.04.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

POLITICS

* Several environmental groups in Russia have been classified as “foreign agents” by prosecutors for alleged political activity, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said

WORLD

* US lawmakers were urged Friday to set aside differences with Moscow and strengthen cooperation in the fight against extremists from the volatile North Caucasus region of Russia, after two brothers with roots to the area allegedly carried out deadly bomb attacks at last week’s Boston Marathon

* South Korea announced Friday that it has decided to withdraw all workers from a joint industrial site in North Korea after Pyongyang rejected its offer for dialog, Yonhap news agency reported

* Turkey was granted dialogue partner status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

* North Korea has rejected a proposal from the South to hold immediate talks over their joint industrial park in the border town of Kaesong, South Korean media reported on Friday, quoting North Korea's National Defense Commission

RUSSIA

* Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a government-submitted law on “administrative arrests,” which requires jail administrators, officials and medics to treat convicts respectfully, the Kremlin reported

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych marked the 27th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster by thanking Russia, the US and a number of other countries and organizations for their support of the Chernobyl Shelter Fund, which is funding the construction of a new covering structure for the remains of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine

* Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called for a closer look to be taken at fire safety following a deadly blaze in a hospital in the Moscow Region

* Anatoly Chubais, who oversaw Russia's mass privatization drive in the 1990s, said on Friday he had always treated allegations that his US advisers at the time were operatives of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as rumors - until President Vladimir Putin said so

* The State Duma approved Russia's accession to the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse

* At least 38 people died early on Friday in a fire at a psychiatric hospital in a small town north of Moscow, the Health Ministry said

CRIME

* A Russian court on Friday rejected Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s application for parole, a RAPSI legal news agency correspondent reported

* A jury in Russia's Far East acquitted two crew members of a Russian Navy nuclear attack submarine which suffered one of the worst accidents in the fleet in the past decade, at the end of a retrial

SCIENCE

* The Progress M-19M space freighter docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday despite having failed to deploy one of its navigation antennas, Mission Control said

* China has launched its first Gaofen-1 high-resolution remote sensing satellite into orbit, Xinhua news agency reported

* Russia has successfully launched a satellite for the GLONASS navigation system from its northern Plesetsk Cosmodrome, the Defense Ministry reported

BUSINESS

* Russia's largest airline Aeroflot misspent 13.9 billion rubles (over $443 million) in 2010-2011 and the first nine months of 2012, according to an Audit Chamber report, auditor Sergei Ryabukhin said at a meeting of the Federation Council's Rules Committee