Main News of June 9

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Seventeen people, including ten women were killed on Saturday during the shelling of Syrian southern town of Deraa, London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) said

* A bus carrying Russian passengers came under fire in Syria on Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Iran has urged OPEC member countries to stick to their oil production quotas to halt oil price declines, IRNA news agency reported on Saturday, citing Iran’s OPEC envoy Mohammad Ali Khatibi

* Spanish banks need at least 40 billion euros in additional capital to guard against a possible further economic deterioration, the International Monetary Fund said in its report

* Russian gas giant Gazprom may finance the Bulgarian part of the South Stream gas pipeline, intended to carry natural gas to Europe, in lieu of future payments for gas transit, a source close to the project said

* Moldova's parliament has approved in its first reading a bill which could make payment for sex a crime punishable by fines

RUSSIA

* The Russian government may set aside over 200 billion rubles ($6 billion) in the 2013 budget for anti-crisis support to domestic companies in case of further global economic deterioration, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said

* Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered a construction of an aircraft manufacturing plant for production of tactical transport aircraft in Kazan, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said

* Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that offering key posts in the government and companies to the ruling United Russia party supporters is normal practice

* Russia is completing deliveries of air defense weapons to Syria under contracts concluded earlier and is not supplying any arms that can be used against protesters, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Russia’s Eastern Military District took delivery of a “regimental” set of S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems, the Defense Ministry said

* Russia's railway monopoly, Russian Railways, plans to participate in various railway projects worth of total nearly $3 billion in the Middle East and Africa

SPORTS

* Russian world No. 1 Maria Sharapova became only the 10th female tennis player to complete a career Grand Slam as she swept aside Sara Errani in straight sets in the French Open final

* A first-half goal by Michael Krohn-Dehli allowed Denmark to pull off the first shock result of Euro 2012 with a 1-0 win over a wasteful Netherlands side in Kharkiv