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Main news of December 18

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, one of the leading anti-Communist dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s, has died aged 75, the Czech television reported

* Death toll form clashes in the Kazakhstan oil town of Zhanaozen has reached 14, official spokesman for the country's Prosecutor General's Office Nurdaulet Suindikov said

* U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has called on Belarus to the release and rehabilitate political prisoners in a joint statement

RUSSIA

* Jailed coordinator of Russia's Left Front movement Sergei Udaltsov is in critical condition, his wife Anastasia said

* Over 3,000 supporters of Russia's Communist Party gathered in the center of Moscow to protest against the alleged mass election fraud at the December 4 parliamentary elections

 

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