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Main news of January 21

Main news of January 21

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23:59 21/01/2012

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The United States warned on Saturday it may soon close its embassy in Syria over the worsening security situation there

* Over 3,000 Libyans in Benghazi rallied on Saturday to demand that Sharia law be the main source of the country’s legislation

* At least seven people have been killed as four coordinated attacks rocked Nigeria’s northern city of Kano

* Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has called on citizens to oppose making Russian a second state language in the forthcoming referendum in February

* Ossetia opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva said she would not participate in the “illegitimate” presidential polls on March 25

* United States expect the European Union to take steps to pressure Iran back into negotiations on its controversial nuclear activity

RUSSIA

* Russian billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov promised on Saturday to sell his business if he wins March elections

* Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All-Russia will discuss the problems of Christians in the Middle East with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting in Moscow

* Kiev and Moscow are not discussing the sale of Ukrainian state assets to Russia as part of a future gas deal, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yury Boyko said

* Moscow authorities dismissed on Friday a plan, proposed by critics of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to hold a 50,000-strong march on February 4

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