Main news of July 4

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Some 100 protesters in Belarus were tried for taking part in unsanctioned rallies in Minsk and other cities, human rights activist Anastasia Loiko said.

* Turkey on Monday recalled its ambassador from Tripoli, thus breaking its relations with the current government of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and has recognized the rebel government in Benghazi as the only legitimate one in the country

* A Kiev court postponed the hearings of the case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko until July 6, giving Tymoshenko's new lawyer Mykola Tytarenko time to get acquainted with the case materials

* Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was removed on Monday from a hearing in a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague

* Otto von Habsburg, the eldest son of the last Austrian emperor, died aged 98 on Monday at his residence in southern Germany, the family's spokesman told RIA Novosti in a statement

RUSSIA

* Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in a Moscow jail because he did not receive medical assistance in a timely fashion, investigators announced

* Russia and NATO have different views of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 on Libya, but they share the same stance on the peaceful and political settlement of the conflict in the country, the Russian foreign minister said

* Russia and NATO cannot agree on the establishment of a so-called sectoral missile defense system in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Former speaker of the Russian Federation Council Sergei Mironov said on Monday that President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may propose another candidate for presidential elections in 2012

* Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, banned on Monday sales of laser pointers in the republic after one was used to shine into pilots' eyes as they flew into Grozny

* Russia's largest social networking site Vkontakte has provided the IP addresses of users who have put pirated content on its site to Gala Records/EMI in court proceedings

* Individual armaments are exploding at an arms depot near a small village in the Urals republic of Udmurtia due to a heat wave in the region