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20:33 GMT 09.11.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Two activists from the unregistered Other Russia party were arrested for yelling insults and throwing a tomato at the Dutch royal couple before a concert in Moscow.

* Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station taking a symbolic Olympic torch on a first spacewalk in history.

* Republican elders and Islamic clerics in the Russian republic of Ingushetia agreed to hike unofficial fines for bride kidnapping in a bid to stop the custom that led to a bloody shootout last month.

* Russian investigators cleared a Moscow tax official off the “Magnitsky list” who was implicated in a $230 million swindle.

* Six members of a gang that tormented a southern Russian town for years were found guilty of murdering a dozen people purportedly to avenge the death of the gang leader’s brother.

* An unorthodox ticket machine that dispenses passes for workouts went into operation in the Moscow metro this week.

WORLD

* US State Secretary John Kerry opposed a draft deal on Iran’s nuclear program during high-profile talks in Geneva.

DEFENSE

* Terrorism and NATO expansion near Russian borders pose key threats to Russia’s national security, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

* Russian and Italian warships completed the joint Ioniex-2013 exercise in the Ionian Sea, a spokesman for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet said.

SPORTS

* Evgeny Plushenko skated a rusty free program but did enough to secure victory in his first competition in nine months, a morale-booster ahead of his expected tilt at the Sochi Olympics.