Main News of February 28

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours.

World

* There are no Belarusian mercenaries fighting in Libya and a plane laden with Muammar Gaddafi's gold has not landed in Minsk, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry said

* Libyan security services opened fire on an anti-Gaddafi protest in the capital of Tripoli, the Benghazi-based Quryna paper said

* The Egyptian Prosecutor General has banned ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his family from traveling abroad, Al Jazeera reported

* Tehran has officially challenged the 2012 London Olympic Games logo as racist and Zionist

 Russia

* The Libyan authorities should be serious about the UN Security Council resolution adopted on February 26, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Foreign military intervention in Libya would be counter-productive, former Russian prime minister and Middle East expert Yevgeny Primakov said

* Russia's Interior Ministry has to step up efforts to prevent and counter terrorism and extremism, as well as bolster security in public places to implement the tasks set by President Dmitry Medvedev, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev told the Izvestia daily