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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* A girl died in hospital raising the death toll in Sunday's school bus accident in southern Russia to five, the local police spokeswoman said

* Russian activists who have set up an opposition camp in downtown Moscow will continue their protest until a new March of Millions scheduled for June 12, MP from the A Just Russia party Dmitry Gudkov said

* A host of Russian literary figures led thousands of people through the squares and boulevards of downtown Moscow on Sunday afternoon to an opposition camp that has become the epicenter of the challenge to the rule of President Vladimir Putin

 

WORLD

* At least eleven people were arrested in London during peaceful rallies called ‘Occupy London’ as part of ‘occupy’ anti-capitalism protests across the world

 

* U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been named by the ForbesWoman magazine as the world’s No.1 ‘Powerful Mom’ in its annual ranking list

 

* Flight recorders of the Russian Sukhoi Superjet-100 that crashed near Jakarta on Wednesday killing 45, were found on Sunday in a deep gorge but will be raised on Monday, a local rescue chief said

 

* Russian UK-based tycoon Boris Berezovsky has provided Prince Michael of Kent with 320,000 pounds in the past six years, The Sunday Times said quoting court documents

 

* Forty-nine dismembered bodies placed in plastic bags were found on a motorway near Monterrey in northern Mexico, prosecutors in the Nuevo Leon state said

 

* A special reconciliation commission in Ingushetia has prevented vendetta conflicts between 150 families over 42 months, the leader of the Russian Islam-dominated republic in the Caucasus said

 

BUSINESS

 

* Germany’s second biggest utility RWE AG is reconsidering its participation in the Nabucco pipeline consortium as part of its cost-saving strategy, the Wirtschaftsblatt paper said quoting the concern’s statement

 

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