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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi rejected Turkey's allegations that Damascus was responsible for two car bombings that killed over 40 people in a Turkish town near the Syrian border and wounded dozens of others

* Six people were killed and almost 1 million affected as rainstorms have battered southern and eastern China over the past five days with at least seven typhoons expected to hit the country’s coastal areas this year, Xinhua said

* Iran’s Navy will receive cruise missiles with a range of more than 300 kilometers, the director of Iran’s Defense Ministry’s Aerospace Organization said

RUSSIA

* Russia’s Mediterranean task force will comprise 5-6 warships and may be enlarged to include nuclear submarines, Navy Commander Adm. Viktor Chirkov said

* Six people, five of them children aged between 18 months and seven years, died in a fire in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk Territory, the regional emergencies service said in a statement

* A new Russian carrier-deck pilot training site will be ready for operation by next year, Navy Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov said, replacing a Soviet-era base in Ukraine which Kiev has said it may lease to other countries

SPORTS

* Russian rider Maxim Belkov won the ninth stage of the Giro d’Italia grand tour with a stunning breakaway ride. Belkov and two other rider broke off from the peloton early on with the aim of scoring points on the climbs, but the Russian managed to shed them and hold on until the end, building up a gigantic seven-minute lead at one point

* Serena Williams crushed Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-4 on Sunday to win the $5.1 million Madrid Open, her 50th career title. The American also retained her world No. 1 status with the victory on the clay courts of the Spanish capital, and moves to within three titles of Monica Seles' haul at No. 10 on the all-time list

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