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23:59 28/11/2012

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* At least 54 people died on Wednesday and many more were injured when two bombs exploded in the south-east of the Syrian capital, Damascus, UK-based Syrian opposition activists said

* An explosion which caused the oil spill ripped through the Deepwater Horizon, some 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. The blast claimed the lives of 11 people who were working on the rig and injured other 17. Some 6,000 U.S. National Guard troops were sent to the area of the disaster to help carry out clean-up operations

* The Bushehr nuclear power plant has been refueled and is ready to resume operations, the IRNA news agency reported

* Turkey is going ahead with its plant to build a nuclear power plant just several kilometers away from the border with Bulgaria, Turkish President, Abdullah Gul said

RUSSIA

* Russia has ended up near the bottom of the list on the Law Index 2012 released by the World Justice Project

* The number of HIV infections is expected to rise by 12.5 percent in Russia in 2012, with up to 200 new cases registered every day on average, the head of Russia's federal AIDS research center said

* Companies controlled by the Russian Defense Ministry embezzled more than a combined 10 billion rubles ($257 million) this year, investigators said

* Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee is urging the media to deny terrorists access to the media and other information outlets, NAC spokesman Nikolai Sintsov said

* A Russian supergrass, who helped Swiss prosecutors uncover alleged Russian money laundering schemes, has been found dead in Weybridge, Surrey, The Independent said

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* The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday it has temporarily suspended new US government contracts with the British oil and gas company BP in response to a 2010 explosion that killed 11 people on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico and caused the largest environmental disaster in American history

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