Main News of January 4

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Senegal’s navy has detained a Russian fishing vessel, the Oleg Naydenov, and is escorting it to the port of Dakar, the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency reported

* Thirty people, including 19 Russian tourists and 11 Egyptian crew, have been rescued from a sinking boat in the Red Sea, US media reported

* A Chinese icebreaker that played a key role evacuating people this week from a Russian vessel stranded in the Antarctic ice pack is now itself trapped in dense ice, maritime authorities said

RUSSIA

* Two men injured in terrorist attacks on the southern Russian city of Volgograd in late December 2013 have been brought to Moscow, the Russian Health Ministry reported

SOCHI 2014

* Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday played a friendly ice hockey match with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and hockey stars in the southern Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi

* President Vladimir Putin has lifted a ban on public protests during the Olympics opening next month in Sochi, four months after signing an order banning demonstrations during the winter sports even

BUSINESS

* Belarus has received the first part of a $2 billion Russian loan, worth $450 million, a spokesman for the Belarusian National Bank said