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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The United Nations Security Council on Thursday prolonged the presence of a UN peacekeeping force in the disputed Golan Heights region between Syria and Israel for another six months, the UN reported on its website

* A US federal grand jury has indicted suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on charges of killing four people and using a weapon of mass destruction in the deadly April 15 attack, the US Justice Department said

* A senior US lawmaker has said he is preparing a package of measures to pressure Russia to assist the United States in securing the detention of former CIA employee Edward Snowden, who is reportedly holed up in the transit zone of a Moscow airport

* Polish investigators have found no traces of explosives on debris from a jet that crashed in Russia in 2010, killing Poland’s then-president, Lech Kaczynski, a top prosecutor said

* Mongolia's incumbent president Elbegdorj Tsakhia has won a second four-year term, the country’s Central Electoral Commission said

RUSSIA

* Russia’s parliament on Thursday extended an invitation to fugitive ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden to help investigate whether American Internet firms provided information about Russian citizens to the US government

* A reshuffle of Russia’s top economic officials has been designed to stave off looming stagnation, with a new minister likely to try and break with the policies of his predecessor despite possible opposition from the Kremlin, according to experts surveyed by RIA Novosti

* Jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was once Russia’s richest man and has spent about a decade behind bars, has been promoted and now helps make stationery, a prison service official said

* Sweltering temperatures in Moscow on Thursday broke a more than century-old record for the city’s hottest June 27, and the mercury is still rising

* Police have released more than 40 people detained in central Moscow late Wednesday during a rally to mark the 50th birthday of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky who has spent almost a decade behind bars

* The Russian Justice Ministry has suspended the activity of independent election monitor Golos for failing to register as a “foreign agent,” the ministry said

DEFENSE

* Russia’s Defense Ministry has disclosed details of the timing of its plan to increase the share of modern weapons in the armed forces to 70 percent by 2020

SCIENCE

* The Russian government is to overhaul the nation’s Academy of Sciences, it announced on Thursday, including stripping it of the right to manage its property in apparent impatience with the state of the organization

CRIME

* Russian investigators have pressed charges against two managers of an oil rig that sank in the Sea of Okhotsk in December 2011, killing 53 people, an Investigative Committee spokesman said