Main news of July 2

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The finance ministers from all 16 Eurozone countries (Eurogroup) approved a new tranche in financial support to ailing Greece, the group said in a statement

* Greek authorities have arrested the captain of one of the ships from the Freedom Flotilla II for illegally setting sail for the Gaza Strip, the Greek Coast Guard said

* The Russian-language social network VKontakte, used by groups organizing protests in Belarus, have not been blocked and new protests are being organized through it, a RIA Novosti correspondent said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a telephone conversation with South African President Jacob Zuma agreed to meet to discuss peace efforts in Libya, the Kremlin press service said

* Armed police and the military clashed with local residents in Egypt's Salum town near the border with Libya, the Egyptian media said

* A U.S. court in the State of Colorado has sentenced foster parents of three teenage Russian girls to probation on child abuse charges

RUSSIA

* Russia's Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov said his opposition party would set up a Narodnoye Opolchenie (militia) movement to counterbalance the People's Front project of the ruling party

BUSINESS

* Ukrainian parliament will back a government bill to allow privatization of the Europe-bound transit gas pipelines as a step toward a joint venture with Europe and Russia, the ruling party said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered power supplies to be resumed to Belarus after the former Soviet neighbor paid its arrears on electricity bills, the president’s spokeswoman said

* Japan's car manufacturing plants will be working at weekends as part of the nation's energy-saving plan in the wake of a recent earthquake and tsunami, the NHK television company said

SPORTS

* Russia's tennis star Maria Sharapova lost 3:6, 4:6 to the Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova at the Wimbledon Championships