Main news of June 1

RUSSIA

* The bodies of two more miners that were trapped in a coalmine in west Siberia, have been found, bringing the death toll to three, Kemerovo Region Deputy Governor Andrei Malakhov said

* Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos was arriving in Russia to discuss political aspects of bilateral relations, and also economic and cultural cooperation with Russian leaders

* Russia's oil export duty was raised from June 1 to a record $398.1 per metric ton, in line with global market trends

* Police detained thirteen people at an unauthorized gay parade in the center of Moscow, a spokesman for the Russian capital's interior department said

* Eight homeless people died after a fire broke out in a wooden house in Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East, a local police source said

WORLD

* Space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station, NASA said

* Macedonia voted in an early parliamentary election, with Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's coalition VMRO-DPMNE expected to win the poll

* Iran will continue to enrich uranium despite the UN nuclear watchdog's call to halt the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said