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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
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Ukraine hopes to find a solution to the gas dispute with Russia soon, President Viktor Yanukovych said on Friday in Davos at the World Economic Forum.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said the country cannot unilaterally annul the gas contract with Russia, but will push for a revision.

World Economic Forum annual meeting 2012 will be held in Davos from 25 to 29 January, with the theme "The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models". 

Ukraine and Russia will carry out two rocket launches under the joint Dnepr space program, head of the National Space Agency of Ukraine Yuri Alekseyev said on Friday.
The Free Syrian Army, an armed opposition group fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, has released a video showing seven men it claims are Iranian snipers captured in Homs, Al Arabiya reported on Friday.
The head of Russia's direct investment fund set up to lure foreign investment to modernize the Russian economy, Kirill Dmitriev, said on Friday he expected substantial increased capital inflow to Russia after presidential elections this March.
Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, will investigate lawmakers who had contacts with alleged British intelligence agent Marc Doe, deputy Alexander Khinshtein said on Friday.
U.S. online room rental service Airbnb.com plans to open its office in Moscow as well as in other European cities in the first quarter of 2012, the service said on Friday.
The European Union agreed this week to introduce a ban on Iranian oil imports to the EU. Iran’s response was unequivocal.
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Annual financial damage to the world economy from drug money equals $2 trillion, Russia's Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov said.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev confirmed on Friday that the energy-rich Central Asian state was likely to conclude talks to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) this year.
U.S. policemen seized last week 16 kilograms (35.2 lbs) of cocaine at the mail intake center of the UN headquarters in New York, world media agencies reported on Friday.
Hundreds of protesters gathered on early Friday morning near the Egyptian state television and radio building in Cairo, Nile News television channel reported.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her State Department employees that she was ready to be out of the public eye, Politico newspaper reported.
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