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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

*Hundreds of thousands of people rallied across Russia on Wednesday to mark Labor Day with events ranging from Soviet-style state-endorsed marches to campaigns for promotion of European techno and single ladies’ rights.

*Two teenagers were killed Wednesday by a blast in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan after they picked up a package loaded with explosives, local police said.

* Russian President Vladimir Putin issued five Hero of Labor awards in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, reviving a socialist tradition in Russia’s capitalist economy.

*Russia’s large landing ship Azov entered the Israeli port of Haifa on Wednesday , marking the first time a Russian warship calls at an Israeli port.

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*US authorities have taken three additional suspects into custody in connection with the deadly April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon that two brothers with ties to Russia have been accused of carrying out, the Boston Police Department said on its Twitter feed Wednesday.

*Relatives of deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev will claim his body after his widow said she would like her husband’s remains to be released to his side of the family, Tsarnaev’s uncle was quoted by US media as saying.

*Some 2,000 demonstrators clashed with riot police in Istanbul on Wednesday, when hundreds of people tried to reach the city’s main square to hold a May Day rally contrary to a government ban.

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Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova reached the quarterfinals of the Portugal Open on Wednesday after beating Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboeva.

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