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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Poland's Prosecutor General's Office has not issued an arrest warrant for exiled Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev, but police will detain him if he arrives in Warsaw for a Chechen congress, a spokesman said

* The United States has called on the UN Security Council to take new measures against Iran following recent violations of the UN's sanctions, the U.S. ambassador to the UN said

* Russia's Prosecutor General's Office said it was demanding that fugitive tycoon Boris Berezovsky return assets worth over 300 million pounds ($465 million)

RUSSIA

* Russia has refused to attend a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Georgia to avoid provocations against members of its delegation, the Foreign Ministry said

* Russia favors international cooperation in the Arctic but without the military component and is concerned by NATO activity in the region, President Dmitry Medvedev said

* Russia and Norway signed a deal to delimitate their maritime border after 40 years of negotiations

* It is up to the president to decide whether Moscow's mayor continues in office, a highly placed Kremlin source said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised 14,000 km of new roads by 2015

* Investigators have released all of the people detained after last week's suicide bombing at a market in Vladikavkaz, a Russian newspaper said

BUSINESS

* Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, Rosselkhoznadzor, has imposed restrictions on meat imports from 14 plants in six countries over banned or harmful substances found in their meat products, the watchdog said