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19:58 GMT 10.05.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The moon will partially block the sun to produce a potentially spectacular “ring of fire” solar eclipse that will be visible to anyone with an Internet connection, thanks to the astronomy buffs at Slooh.com

* Iran has unveiled a radar-evading unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of carrying out both surveillance and attack missions, the Press TV channel reported

* Wearing a bright orange prison jumpsuit, Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spends 23 hours a day alone inside a small cell in a high security housing unit at a federal medical detention center in Devens, Massachusetts, according to a prison spokesman

* It’s a mere three seconds of stock footage in the critically acclaimed Cold War television series “The Americans,” a nighttime panorama showing Moscow’s renowned Christ the Savior Cathedral as a US counterintelligence official explains that a top KGB officer is about to be assassinated

* US officials on Thursday reiterated their call to Moscow to cut off arms sales to Syria, hours after media reports suggested that Russia was ready to sell advanced ground-to-air missile systems to the country

* Another ammonia leak was detected in the cooling system of the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, NASA said

* UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon thanked top Russian and US diplomats for their initiative to organize an international conference on Syria, his spokesman Martin Nesirky said

* The 2008 Olympic sailing champion, Andrew Simpson from the United Kingdom, has been killed when his yacht capsized during a training in the United States, his team said

* Five workers died in a gas leak at a steel plant in Dangjin, South Korea, Yonhap news agency reported

* North Korea has called the South Korean President’s recent visit to the United States a “prelude to war,” Yonhap reported on Friday citing North Korean media sources

* The ammonia leak detected in the International Space Station’s cooling system on Thursday took place in the US section of the station, a Russian Space Agency official told RIA Novosti

* Search and rescue teams have pulled a survivor from the rubble of the building that collapsed in Bangladesh 17 days after the tragedy occurred, local media report

* Georgia’s government is considering a possibility of legalizing marijuana in the country, Labor, Health and Social Affairs Minister David Sergeyenko said

* The Russian and British security services will cooperate in the build-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi next year, British Prime Minister David Cameron said

* Astronauts in the US section of the International Space Station (ISS) were preparing for a possible spacewalk to inspect and fix an ammonia leak in a cooling loop, NASA said Friday, hours after the leak was detected

* Negotiators are in the final stage on reaching an agreement on the liberalization of visa regime between Russia and the European Union, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveled to Russia last year with an interest in taking up jihad and contacting fundamentalist Islamic groups in the country’s restive North Caucasus region, some of whom viewed his outreach with suspicion and consternation, US media reported

* Suspected ivory poachers have slaughtered 26 elephants in the Dzanga Bai reserve, in the Central African Republic, known as the “village of elephants,” the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said

* Cyprus Finance Ministry issued a decree on Friday lifting restrictions on financial operations for the Russian Commercial Bank, a subsidiary of state-run VTB, and OJSC Promsvyazbank, a Russian privately-owned bank

RUSSIA

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the possible establishment of a Russian airbase in Belarus should not be seen as a response to US missile defense plans in Europe

* Russia has no plans to supply Syria with weapons beyond the current contracts that Moscow is honoring, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Russia and the United Kingdom have agreed to set up a special group to work on energy projects, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron

* Russia and the United Kingdom have common interest in preserving Syria’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron

* Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron a tour of the Olympic venues being readied in Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics

* The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has cut its GDP growth forecast for Russia in 2013 by almost half, from 3.5 percent to 1.8 percent, a statement by the bank reads

* The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, has met with the Chinese President on the first day of his five-day visit to China

* Russian paratrooper divisions will receive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) within the next three-to-five years, Colonel-General Vladimir Shamanov, Commander of Russia’s Airborne Forces, told journalists

* The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, arrived in China for an official visit during which he will carry out services in Orthodox Cathedrals and meet with senior Chinese officials

* More than 8.5 million of Russians attended Victory Day celebrations in over 5,000 cities and towns across Russia on Thursday, the Russian Interior Ministry said

* Over 300,000 bottles of moonshine have been discovered in a warehouse in the suburbs of Moscow, a statement on the Ministry of Interior Affairs said

* Bears waking up after their winter hibernation in Tomsk, Siberia are better behaved this year than last year, the head of the local nature protection committee, told RIA Novosti

SPORT

* The Euroleague may abandon plans to host next year’s Final Four in London and has other candidates in mind, the league’s president and CEO Jordi Bertomeu said

* Maria Sharapova advanced to the semifinals at the Madrid Open after a tidy straight sets victory over Kaia Kanepi