Main News of July 19

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

World

 

* Israeli marines boarded a French yacht headed for the Gaza Strip and forced it to change course and go to the Israel port of Ashdod

 

* Rupert Murdoch told a British parliament hearing that he was shocked by the scale of hacking at the News of the World tabloid

 

* A protest song by the Soviet-era rock group Kino has been banned from the radio in Belarus amid ongoing demonstrations against President Alexander Lukashenko's rule

 

* A man tried to attack News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch with a "foam pie" during a parliamentary committee hearing into phone hacking allegations

 

Russia

 

* Six out of 15 missing passengers of the Russian boat that sank on the Volga River on July 10 are reported to be alive, a police spokesperson said

 

* President Dmitry Medvedev blasted the German nonprofit organization Werkstatt Deutschland for reversing its earlier decision to award Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with the Quadriga prize