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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

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* A landmark nuclear nonproliferation program involving the conversion of Russian weapons-grade highly-enriched uranium (HEU) into nuclear fuel is 95 percent complete, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said

* At their preparatory meeting for an international peace conference on Syria, representatives of Russia, the United States and the United Nations resolved certain issues regarding the format of the future talks, but failed to set a specific date or agree on the list of participants

* Russian Child Rights Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov held talks in Washington with US officials that are expected to include Moscow’s controversial ban on American adoptions of Russian children, officials said

* A court in Milan sentenced former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to seven years in prison for paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of office

* South Korea’s prime minister called on North Korea to come out of isolation and embark on a course of “co-prosperity and permanent peace” on the Korean Peninsula, South Korean media reported

RUSSIA

* Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee wanted by the United States for leaking state secrets, is in Moscow

* Russian investigators have pressed a new fraud charge against the vice-president and head of security of the Russian subsidiary of a foreign bank who has already been accused of large-scale theft, the Interior Ministry said

* Russian billionaire-turned-politician Mikhail Prokhorov, who leads the Civil Platform party, will donate 1.5 million rubles ($45,870) to pay the annual rent for a Russian human rights group evicted from its office last weekend, a party member said

* A military court in Russia’s restive North Caucasus region sentenced a former serviceman to 15 years in prison for his role in the 2009 assassination of the top police official in the local Dagestan republic

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