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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Two warring factions from South Sudan held direct peace talks on Sunday for the first time since conflict began roiling the country last month, sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing for safety.

* The European Union said Monday that the introduction of the Euro in Latvia was going according to plan after the small Baltic nation became the 18th member of the single currency zone last week.

* Fourteen people have died after a stampede at a mosque in northern China, a state news agency said Monday.

RUSSIA

* The Russian Embassy in Dakar has asked Senegal’s Foreign Ministry to explain the detention of the Oleg Naidenov trawler, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday.

* Russian police said Sunday that over 20 people were detained in downtown Moscow on Monday in what activists described as a protest against political prisoners.


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