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Main News of March 3

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The United States has barred a delegation of Russian health officials from influential talks in Washington this week as the US simmers over the deployment of Russian troops in crisis-stricken Ukraine

* A Ukrainian nationalist leader who allegedly called for the help of a Chechen warlord via the social network VKontakte is now being sought in Russia on charges of extremism, Russian investigators said

* North Korea reportedly fired two missiles into the Sea of Japan, adding to a series of warning shots that have come as the South engages in annual military exercises with the United States

RUSSIA

* Russia’s currency fell to all-time record lows as stock markets in Moscow lost more than 11 percent after trading began

* Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order to construct a bridge linking Russia to Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula

* Russian naval warships and coastal troops conducted live fire exercises in the country’s western Kaliningrad and Leningrad Regions, a Ministry of Defense spokesperson said

* Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said that even though the Winter Olympics are over, organizers should not relax yet as the country still needs to put on a worthy Paralympics

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