Main News of May 27

A roundup of what has happened over the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Sweden’s Loreen has won the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest with 372 points with her hit Euphoria, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Sunday.

*Iran intends to build the second reactor at the Bushehr nuclear power plant with a capacity of 1,000 MW, according to a statement by Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization head Fereydoun Abbasi, Mehr news agency reported on Sunday.

* Bidzina Ivanishvili led opposition coalition, Georgian Dream, held a rally on Sunday in Tbilisi according to news agency News-Georgia.

* A criminal Court of Egypt convicted former chief of presidential staff Zakaria Azmi of corruption and abuse of office and sentenced him to seven years in prison according to Egyptian media.

* The UN Security Council meets on Sunday for an emergency meeting to discuss massacre in Syria’s town Houla that left dozens dead, many of them children, press service of Russian diplomatic mission to the UN reported.

 

RUSSIA

* Moscow gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev and several other gay community members were detained during an unauthorized picket near the City Hall building, police reported on Sunday.

* Russia's Natalie Ishenko and Svetlana Romashina won the duet event at the European synchronized swimming championships in Eindhoven on Sunday.

* Moscow police detained about 35 people for various violations on Stary Arbat street, Moscow police spokesperson said on Sunday.