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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The Sudanese Army has retaken Heglig, the main city in the eponymous disputed oil district, a week after the South Sudanese Army entered the area, the SUNA news agency said

* At least 118 people were killed in a crash of a Boeing-737 passenger jet outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad, tentatively blamed on bad weather, Dawn.com Pakistani television said

* A Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur launching site in Kazakhstan for the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian mission control center said

* Friday’s joint rally of about 90 parties and movements in Cairo's Tahrir Square has turned into a campaigning event for the country’s Islamist forces

* Norwegian confessed mass killer Anders Breivik told a court in Oslo that he picked up strategies from the Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda and said it could serve as inspiration to European far-right militants

* North Korea will continue satellite launches for peaceful purposes, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology (KCST) said in a statement a week after a failed launch

* An updated bill imposing a visa ban and asset freeze on Russian officials allegedly linked to the death in custody of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, as well as on “individuals responsible for other gross violations of human rights” in Russia has been introduced in the U.S. Congress

* Syria faces a catastrophic civil war if both sides in the crisis that has gripped the country for over a year fail to take advantage of the current fragile ceasefire there, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said

RUSSIA

* Russia’s senior TV presenter Vladimir Pozner condemned President Dmitry Medvedev’s idea of launching Public TV, saying it would become yet another state mouthpiece

* Russia’s Investigative Committee said it is closing a criminal case into security violations that led to last year’s deadly blast at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport

* A new development plan for Russia’s depressive eastern Siberia and the Far East will usher in a mega-corporation partially exempt from federal legislation and subordinate only to the president, Kommersant business daily reported

BUSINESS

* The IMF has warned Russia it faces the risks of a "credit bubble swelling up" due to the rapid growth in consumer credit in the past decade, Russia's Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak said

SPORTS

* Ex-CSKA Moscow forward Vagner Love has reportedly called Zenit "the most racist team in Russia," saying the only time he suffered from racism during his seven seasons in the country was against the St. Petersburg team

* Mixed martial arts star Fedor Emelianenko will face Brazilian veteran Pedro Rizzo in St. Petersburg in June, the Russian's representatives