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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours 03.01.2010, Sputnik International

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Discussions between Russia and Belarus to agree terms for the supply and transit of oil in 2010 will continue, but deliveries to Europe have not been affected by the dispute, an aide to Russia's energy minister said.

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took to the slopes together at the Russian ski resort of Krasnaya Polyana.

* A U.S. delegation will arrive in Moscow in mid-January for discussions on poultry imports from the United States after Russia tightened its regulations, Russia’s chief sanitary official said.

* Russia's chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said there is no threat of an H1N1 influenza epidemic in the country in 2010.

* A Russian airliner made an emergency landing in Iran due to an issue with air traffic control in Dubai, not any technical problems, the airline said.

* Six people in a house in the town of Ramenskoye near Moscow died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

* Fifteen people were injured when the bus they were traveling in collided with a car on a highway in southern Russia.

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* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko called on voters in the country’s upcoming presidential elections to reject the two leading candidates, who he said would do Russia's bidding.

* Britain followed the lead of the United States and closed its embassy in Yemen due to an unspecified security threat.

* The Auschwitz Memorial, Poland's most-visited museum, set a new record in 2009 with 1.3 million visitors.

* Preparations are nearing completion in the United Arab Emirates for the opening of the world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai skyscraper.

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has offered his condolences to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over mudslides that killed at least 64 people in southeastern Brazil, the Kremlin press office said.

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