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

WORLD

* Egyptian military police detained over 40 people following a mass rally on Saturday on Cairo's central Tahrir Square, the MENA news agency reported

* The death toll from last month's 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami in Japan reached 12,985, while nearly 14,809 remain unaccounted for, television channel NHK said quoting police

* China launched its eighth navigation satellite into orbit as part of a project to develop its own global satellite navigation system, Xinhua said

* Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and other government officials paid tribute to the victims of last year's plane crash in western Russia that killed president Lech Kaczynski

* At least 15,000 people took to the streets in Tokyo to protest against the nuclear power industry after a devastating earthquake caused meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Kyodo agency said

* Egypt’s top prosecutor summoned ousted president, Hosni Mubarak, and his sons for interrogation while ex-premier Ahmed Nazif has been taken into custody on embezzlement charges, local media said

* An emirate paper said police in Dubai had arrested a blogger and a human rights activist, Ahmad Mansur, who reportedly urged free elections and called for reforms in the country

 

RUSSIA


* Opposition activists gathered in downtown Moscow to hold a sanctioned Day of Wrath rally

 

BUSINESS

* Andrei Borodin, the embattled head of Bank of Moscow, said he had sold his 20.3% stake in the bank, owned jointly with his aide, at half the stake's real value

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