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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday promised to consider lifting the current ban on the sale and advertisement of beer at football stadiums in Russia, which will host the World Cup championship in 2018.
Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is in talks with its European and U.S. partners on the creation of manned research bases on the Moon, the agencies chief, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Thursday.
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The political unrest that swept the Arab world last year, which became known as the “Arab spring”, has become the most significant event in the struggle for civil rights, comparable to the downfall of Soviet Union in 1991, the human right organization Freedom House said in a report released on Thursday.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he may launch political reform following the country’s parliamentary elections this fall.
A native of Uzbekistan accused in the United States of threatening to kill President Barack Obama is to plead guilty, The Birmingham News reported Thursday.
Britain has for the first time admitted it was spying when Russia’s state security service, the FSB, accused British diplomats of using a transceiver hidden inside a rock on a Moscow street.
Francesco Schettino, the captain of the sunken Costa Concordia cruise ship was at a restaurant with two women when the vessel hit the rocks, one of the ship’s passengers told Italy’s RaiTre television channel.
The Russian women team has begun its performance at the 2012 European Water Polo Championship in the Dutch city of Eindhoven with a tough 11-10 victory over the hosts on Wednesday.



