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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he will allow those who want to attend the International Ice-Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships to be held in Belarus in 2014 into the country without a visa, a spokesperson for the Belarusian president said.
Iran has arrested several people in the killing of a nuclear scientist last week that Tehran blames on Israel and the United States, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani told state Al-Alam TV, Tehran Times daily said on Monday.
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The captain of the luxury cruise ship that ran aground and capsized off Italy on January 14 took the ship close to the rocky shores of Giglio Island to please the vessel’s head waiter, who hails from the island, Italy’s Corriere della Sera daily said on Monday.
The Kazakh pro-presidential party Nur Otan led in early parliamentary elections with 80.74 percent of the vote early on Monday, with two other parties surpassing the seven-percent threshold to enter parliament, election officials said.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said on Monday that Kazakhstan’s parliamentary elections “did not meet key democratic principles."
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Iran has received and is studying a letter from the U.S. on a potential dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, the key waterway that Tehran has threatened to close in response to sanctions, Iran’s Fars News Agency said on Monday, citing a Foreign Ministry spokesman.
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Russian gold miner Nord Gold, which has been detached from steel giant Severstal, expects to list for its Global Depositary Receipts (GDR) on the London Stock Exchange on January 19, Severstal said on Monday.
Europe needs to create independent credit rating agencies and stop relying solely on leading U.S.-based agencies, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said during his visit to Greece late on Sunday in the wake of S&'P's mass European downgrade last week.
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Yelena Baturina, the billionaire wife of former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, is expected to buy Morrison’s Hotel in the Irish capital of Dublin for up to 25 million euros ($31.7 million), Irish Times has reported.
At least eleven people died and another eleven were injured after a five-story residential building collapsed on Monday in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, South Asian ANI news agency reported.
Police have seized some 44 kilograms of heroin that was due to be smuggled into Russia during a raid in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, a drug control agency spokeswoman said on Monday.



