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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Estonia's mayoral candidate, Eerik-Niiles Kross, charged with piracy in Russia, has been placed on Interpol’s wanted list at Moscow’s request, with 24 hours to go before the local election, media reports said

* Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday praised Russia for assisting New Delhi in nuclear energy and expressed hope that an accord on Moscow's further participation in India's Kudankulam nuclear power plant would be clinched in the near future

* A Milan appeals court has set Italian ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's political ban in his tax fraud conviction at two years

* Deputy Secretary of State William Burns will arrive to Moscow on Sunday on a two-day visit, the US Department of State said

* The United States has started the withdrawal from an airbase in Kyrgyzstan that serves as the main transit hub for NATO forces in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said in a statement

* A cat has been busted for smuggling pot into a prison in Moldova

RUSSIA

* A murder and arson investigation has been opened in southern Russia after the body of a priest was found in the trunk of his crashed car and his house burned down, investigators said

* A bill that proposes stripping gays with children of their parental rights, introduced by Russian lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlyov, has been withdrawn from the parliament, a spokesperson for the lawmaker said

* Large-scale arrests of migrants following recent clashes between the police and an angry mob of nationalists showed no sign of nearing an end in Russia at the weekend as police announced the detention of nearly 700 migrants in the Moscow Region

* A break-in at the apartment of a Russian Embassy employee in the Netherlands that appeared to be the latest incident in a series of diplomatic spats between the two countries was a “normal burglary” committed by a repeat offender, the Dutch foreign minister said, citing police

* More than two thirds of Russians believe that Arctic territories should not belong to any state, a poll carried out by the Kremlin-backed pollster Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) said

* While opening an international competition in Russia’s second largest city on Friday, President Vladimir Putin, an avid judoist, called martial arts “a philosophy” that helps people to gain confidence in themselves

* The president of the restive southern Russian republic of Dagestan said Friday that punitive measures should be introduced for parents of minors taking part in extremist militant organizations

* A court ruled to arrest two brothers suspected in the killing of a judge and a businessman from Chechnya in Russia’s southern republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, investigators said

* Russian state-owned high tech corporation Rostec will invest $100 million in an aircraft building factory in the Ulyanovsk Region, the local administration said

* The Kremlin is ready to consider a Russian citizenship request from about 50,000 Syrian Christians when it receives it, a presidential spokesman said

* Three Russian former police officers stand accused of stealing firearms from their local police depot in eastern Siberia after investigators compiled a case against them and submitted it to a court

* A cache with arms and ammunition has been found in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee said Saturday, describing the discovery as the “largest find” in recent years

* A senior Russian lawmaker said Saturday the EU plan to sign an association agreement with Ukraine has the ultimate goal of ousting the country’s leader Viktor Yanukovych

SPORT

* World No. 3 Maria Sharapova on Saturday appeared to deny rumors she is pregnant by suggesting she would be ready to play in a tournament in three weeks' time, even though that would come after the end of the current season

* Samantha Stosur held off a late rally by Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova to advance to the Kremlin Cup final in Moscow on Saturday with a straight-sets win

* Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, lit the Olympic cauldron on Saturday in her home city of Yaroslavl to mark the arrival of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games torch relay