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Main news of February 12

20:59 GMT 12.02.2011

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

WORLD

* Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 82, who ruled the country for almost 30 years, stepped down after 18 days of heated protests demanding his resignation

* Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians spend the night on the streets of the capital, Cairo, celebrating the long-anticipated resignation of president Hosni Mubarak

* Egypt's new military leadership which seized power after Hosni Mubarak's resignation has pledged to abide by all international agreements, the statement said

* Egypt's chief prosecutor has banned former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and other senior officials from leaving the country to escape corruption charges, the MENA news agency said

* Egypt's interim authorities shortened the curfew hours, setting the new time from midnight to 6 a.m., state TV reported

* More than 100 people have been killed in fighting in South Sudan this week after rebels attacked the army, BBC reported

* Kazakh election authorities registered long-standing leader Nursultan Nazarbayev's candidacy for an early presidential election in April

* A series of powerful quakes hit central Chile in a span of five hours

* The crew of the Mars500 stimulated mission landed on the "surface" of the Red Planet

* An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has issued an arrest warrant for ex-President Pervez Musharraf in the 2007 murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Hindustan Times reported

* A cab driver veered into a crowd outside a nightclub in San Diego, California, injuring 25 people, six of them critically, local media reported

* Police have arrested several hundred protesters at a mass rally in Algeria, inspired by the recent anti-government demonstrations in Egypt, local media said

RUSSIA

* Two militants were killed in a shootout with police in downtown Nazran, in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, a police source said

* The Russian president will visit more of the disputed Kuril Islands, despite growing anger from Tokyo, the Kremlin chief of staff said during talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for swift democratic change in Egypt following mass protest that forced President Hosni Mubarak from power

* All Russian tourists have been sent back home from the popular Egyptian resorts as Cairo is returning to normal following mass anti-government riots

* Opposition activist and an organizer of the Day of Wrath rally in Moscow, Sergei Udaltsov, will remain in custody until Monday, a police spokesperson said

* Police have detained 14 participants of an unsanctioned protest in downtown Moscow staged by the Day of Wrath rally organizers, a police spokesperson said

* Some 7,500 Japanese nationals want to move to the Kuril Islands, disputed between Japan and Russia, Japan's Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara has said

* Russia has sharply criticized Georgia for the arrest and sentencing of Suleiman Barbakadze, a Russian citizen and defender of the rights of Meskhetian Turks

* The death toll from a warehouse fire in the Urals has risen to 12, investigators said