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A roundup of what happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Egyptian authorities moved to extend curfew hours in the Arab country amid violence, but thousands continue defying the calls for order, national television said

* At least 150 people were killed and about 4,000 injured in continued anti-government protests in Egypt, Al-Jazeera TV channel reported

* The Egyptian authorities have imposed a full ban on the work of the popular Arabic TV channel Al-Jazeera in Egypt amid escalating anti-government protests in the North African country, Egypt's state television announced

* Fighter planes started flying low over Cairo, causing panic among local citizens in the protest-hit Arab state

* The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Cairo will maintain its current pro-Western foreign policy despite the widening political protest

* British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a joint statement calling on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to avoid using violence against protesters and launch political reforms in the country

* More than 10 protesters were killed in clashes with police near the Egyptian Interior Ministry building in Cairo, Al Jazeera reported

* Ten people were killed and about 20 others were seriously injured when two trains collided in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany, the Spiegel magazine said on its website, quoting police officials

* Egyptian authorities have caught more than 3,000 inmates who broke out from jails amid nationwide anti-government protests, state television said

* Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been asked by the country's opposition groups to form an interim government, the Democratic Front Party said in a statement

* Belarusian opposition members gathered for an unsanctioned rally in front of the Belarusian security service (KGB) building in downtown Minsk

* Dozens of people took to the streets in Yemen to support the Egyptians' protest against President Hosni Mubarak

* The Indian Navy and Coast Guard held the first major anti-piracy operation closest to India's shores, sinking a pirate ship, rescuing 20 fishermen and arresting 15 Somali pirates, The Hindustan Times reported on Sunday, referring to the country's Navy

* Japan's Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara urged the Egyptian government to resolve ongoing political unrest in the Middle Eastern country peacefully, Kyodo news agency reported

* More than 99% of electors in South Sudan voted to separate from the north in a referendum intended to put an end to decades of civil war in the country, the chairman of the national election commission said, citing preliminary results

* Habib al-Adli, the Egyptian ex-interior minister, was urgently evacuated from the ministry building in the center of Cairo amid gunfire, Al-Jazeera TV channel reported

* Polish First Lady Anna Komorowska is considering going to the site of the Polish presidential plane crash in Smolensk, west Russia, on the first anniversary of the tragedy

* Ukrainian communists are collecting funds to restore a statue to Josef Stalin, which was blown up in the Ukrainian city of Zaporzhe on New Year's Eve, UNIAN news agency said

* Authorities in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, have unveiled a plan to turn the remains of Hitler' Eastern Front military headquarters into a tourist attraction

RUSSIA

* The Russian icebreakers Krasin and Admiral Makarov have rescued the ice-trapped mother fishery ship Sodruzhestvo ending the month-long operation in the Sea of Okhotsk

 

* A Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress M-09M, docked with the International Space Station (ISS)

* Police defused two powerful bombs in Russia's volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said on Sunday

* Police in St. Petersburg evacuated on Sunday visitors of a shopping center in the north of the city after receiving a phone call warning of a bomb

* Russia's largest privately held oil company LUKoil and independent gas producer Novatek both operating in Egypt have started to evacuate their staff from the riots-hit North African country, a source in Cairo said

* Four people were killed in a fire that broke out in a pub in the Russian Volga city of Kazan, a local emergencies services spokesman said

* Over 100 patients were swiftly evacuated from a hospital in the Kemerovo Region in southwest Siberia after a roof collapse, and no one hurt in the incident, the regional emergencies ministry reported

SPORTS

* The president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation said he was satisfied with Russia's performance at the European Figure Skating Championships in Bern

 

 

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