Main news of June 7

WORLD

* Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said the United States needs to carry out far-reaching reforms if it is to successfully meet modern social, economic and environmental challenges

* The Iran-backed Islamist group Hezbollah is seeking to defeat the pro-Western government in Sunday's closely contested election in Lebanon

* Egypt's top prosecutor has ordered an import company to return a large delivery of wheat purchased from Russia and reimburse the state, the Egyptian news agency MENA reported

* Brazilian search teams have found two male bodies from the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic last week, and are continuing to search a large area of the ocean

RUSSIA 

At the World Grain Forum:

- The Russian national development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) could approve $2.6 billion in loans to agricultural companies this year, the bank's top management said

- The Russian Agricultural Bank increased the volume of credit to grain producers by 65% year-on-year as of June 1, the bank's CEO said

- Russia's first deputy prime minister said new countries must be admitted to the world grain market to ensure stable production

- Russia could use its grain intervention fund to provide humanitarian aid to countries facing starvation amid the global economic crisis, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said

* One police officer was killed and another injured in a militant attack in the south Russian republic of Ingushetia on Sunday morning, investigators said