Main news of June 7

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Finance ministers from all 16 Eurozone countries (Eurogroup) approved Estonia's accession to the single currency in 2011, Eurogroup head and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junker said.

* Peaceful methods should be used to lift the embargo on the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said

* Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for international sanctions on Israel over its attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla humanitarian aid ships

* NATO-Ukraine cooperation will continue within the framework of the NATO-Ukraine Commission, the Alliance's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said

* Georgia has given the green light to Russian airline S7 to run direct charter flights between Moscow and Tbilisi, a Georgian transport administration spokesman said

* Gazprom has agreed the parameters for a contract for long-term gas delivery to China, according to the head of the firm's foreign activities deparment, Stanislav Tsygankov

* The Iranian Red Crescent will send two ships carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip at the end of the week, the Iranian news portal Press TV said

* A group of Russian Navy experts left Seoul after completing their assessment of the investigation that found North Korea was responsible for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March

* A 2008 agreement between Russia and Brazil on visa-free short-term tourist travel came into effect

RUSSIA

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge laid the foundation stone of the Olympic University in the southern Russian city of Sochi

* An international anti-drug forum in Moscow will draw the public's attention to the dangers of heroin abuse, which kills over 80 people daily in Russia alone, RIA Novosti's editor-in-chief said

* Russia is already reaping the benefits of developments in the southern city of Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said

* Carrying out necessary reforms on the Russian Police Department will require considerable federal funds, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has instructed the government and nongovernmental organizations to develop a draft framework for the country's environmental policy for the next 20 years, the Kremlin said

* Russia's sports minister, who nearly lost his job due to the Russian team's poor performance at the Vancouver Olympics, said that training facilities for all winter disciplines would be built in Russian regions in 18 months