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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*North Korean state media has called Kim Jong Un, the son of the late leader Kim Jong-Il “The Supreme Commander,” referring to the new leader tightening control over the country’s army, Euronews reported

*At least ten people were killed and twelve are missing after a pleasure boat carrying about 25 people capsized near the southeastern Indian city of Chennai on Sunday, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported

*A militant Islamic group, Boko Haram said it was behind Sunday’s explosions in Nigeria that left almost 30 people dead, Nigeria’s The Daily Trust reported

*Pope Benedict XVI has condemned the commercialization of Christmas as he held Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican

RUSSIA

*Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Moscow Saturday to press demands for new parliamentary elections and wholesale liberalizing reform in Russia, turning the temperature up on Vladimir Putin and his plans to return to the Kremlin

*Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin still enjoys the support of the majority of Russians, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with AFP news agency after the biggest opposition protest in Moscow

*Protesters who rallied in Moscow on Saturday against the alleged mass electoral fraud at the December 4 parliamentary elections have no leaders and lack unity in their ranks, members of the ruling United Russia party said

*Five Russian and three Indonesian nationals are feared dead after an Indonesia-flagged ship went missing in the La Perouse Strait in the southern portion of the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia's Transport Ministry told Prime news agency

*Geodesic engineer Nikolai Pomeshchenko, asked by RIA Novosti to use his professional equipment to count the number of protesters at Saturday’s rally, said at least 56,000 people attended the event

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