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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
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A syndicate of four large Russian banks has provided a loan worth 6 billion rubles ($198 mln) to the Finance Ministry of Belarus, the banks said in a joint statement.
The Israeli Supreme Court has ordered the opening of one of the country's major highways to Palestinians, who had been barred access for seven years, the Kol Israel radio station said on Wednesday.
British IT consultant Peter Moore was freed on Wednesday in Baghdad after being held captive by Shia militants for 31 months.
Iran has denied a Western media report of a secret $450-million deal to procure purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan. 
Around five thousand people attended on Wednesday the funeral of Yves Rocher, founder of a global cosmetics empire, who died last week at the age of 79.
The death toll from two separate bombings which hit the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday has risen to 38, a source in Anbar province's security forces said.
Hundreds of students in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province protested on Wednesday against the killings of civilians by NATO troops, demanding their withdrawal from the country, local media said.
Belarus will pay around $168 per 1,000 cubic meters of Russian natural gas in the first quarter of 2010, 11% more than the average price of $150 for 2009, the Gazprom CEO said on Wednesday.
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At least 23 people were killed and 57 injured, including a provincial governor, in two separate suicide bombings in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has sent New Year greetings to U.S. President Barack Obama, welcoming the improvement in relations with the United States over the past year, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
Kazakhstan has not planned any uranium supplies to Iran, an official spokesman for the ex-Soviet state's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
The U.S. and Yemen are now studying possible targets in the Arab state for a potential retaliation strike on Al-Qaeda facilities in the country
An international humanitarian convoy carrying aid to the Gaza Strip returned to Syria after Egypt had denied access to its territory
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday "a mix of human and systematic failures" was to blame for the failed Christmas Day bombing of the U.S.-bound plane with some 300 passengers.



