Main News of February 2

A roundup of what happened in the past 24 hours.

 

World

* One person was killed and at least 400 injured as supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak clashed with opposition protesters in Cairo

* Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said he would not seek reelection after his term expires in 2013

* The Moldovan government imposed a ban on the export of wheat in response to what Prime Minister Vladimir Filat said was a need "to prevent a shortage of grain in the country."

* Ukraine needs International Monetary Fund assistance amid the current uncertainty on the world financial markets, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said

Russia

 * The number of victims of last week's terrorist attack on Moscow's Domodedovo Airport rose to 36, a spokesman for Russia's Health Ministry said

* Russia condemned Ireland's decision to send home a Russian diplomat from its Dublin embassy over alleged involvement in passport forgery as an "unfriendly act" and vowed a response to the expulsion

 * The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, approved a police reform bill aimed at restoring public trust in Russia's police force

 * Russia is against putting external pressure on the Egyptian leadership and people and believes that the country has to decide itself how to resolve the current political crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

 * Russian President Dmitry Medvedev asked the "legal expert community" to look into the case of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, suggesting their findings could be used as grounds for an appeal or a pardon

 * Over 60 percent of Russians want Vladimir Lenin to be removed from his mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square and buried, a pollster said