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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant has halted its activities for two months, IRNA news agency reported Sunday citing the country’s atomic energy chief.

* All 26 non-Russian environmental activists who were detained over a September protest at an Arctic oil rig and recently pardoned by a presidential amnesty have left Russia, Greenpeace said Sunday.

* World No. 4 Maria Sharapova will face France’s Caroline Garcia in her competitive return to tennis following a shoulder injury, after the draw was made for the season-opening Brisbane International said.

RUSSIA

* More than a dozen people were killed Sunday when a blast ripped through a railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd in what authorities say was an attack carried out by a suicide bomber.

* The head of Russia's Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has called on the Russian parliament to outlaw all radical groups in an effort to fight against terrorism.

* An Australian icebreaker is closing in on a Russian tour vessel trapped in sea ice in the Antarctic, an Australian news portal reported Sunday.

* A Russian freestyle wrestling champion and two-time Olympic medalist died in a car crash Sunday at 27 years old.

* Police in Russia’s Far Eastern Primorye Territory said on Saturday they had detained a teenager who faked his own kidnapping in order to get a ransom of almost $4,000 from his mother.

* Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law would make spreading separatist views a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in jail.

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