Main news of February 4

A roundup of what happened in the past 24 hours.

WORLD

* Russia urged all sides in the current conflict in Egypt to immediately provide security for media representatives covering the ongoing disorder

* A mass rally by Egyptian opposition protestors calling for the immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak began with calls for peace

* Arab League leader Amr Moussa went to Cairo's central Tahrir Square, the site of a mass rally by Egyptian opposition protestors calling for the immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak

* Early presidential elections will take place in Kazakhstan on April 3

RUSSIA

* The Moscow city government has misspent up to 215 billion rubles ($7.3 billion) in the transportation sector, the Audit Chamber said

* All trips by Russian officials to the Kuril Islands are aimed at facilitating the development of these remote territories, President Dmitry Medvedev said

BUSINESS

* Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company, is not in talks with Russian shareholders in the TNK-BP joint venture on buying their stakes in the company, its head said

* Kazakhstan hopes to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) no later than the first half of 2012, the country's minister of economic development said