Main news of June 14

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called the situation in Kyrgyzstan “intolerable” and called for firm action to halt the interethnic violence that has killed more than 100 people

* The son of former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been detained in Britain, the head of Kyrgyzstan's State National Security Service said

* The post-Soviet Collective Security Treaty Organization will offer emergency assistance to law-enforcement agencies in Kyrgyzstan

* The authorities in Uzbekistan have already officially registered 45,000 refugees from the ethnic violence in neighboring Kyrgyzstan, a deputy prime minister of Uzbekistan said

* Lithuania’s president criticized Moscow and Minsk over the selection of the sites for two new nuclear power plants, in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and in Belarus

 

RUSSIA

* President Dmitry Medvedev visited the southern Russian republic of Chechnya

DEFENSE

* Russia will carry out its next test launch of the troubled Bulava ballistic missile in the third quarter of the year, a deputy defense minister said

* Russia and France are strategic military partners, the French defense minister said

ENVIRONMENT

* BP said it has already paid $1.6 billion for April's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

SCIENCE

* Russian cosmonaut Yury Yurchihin and U.S. astronauts Douglas Wheelock and Shannon Walker were confirmed as the crew for the next half-year mission on the International Space Station