Main News of July 1

A roundup of what has happened over the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Iran will respond with its new domestically-made anti-radar ballistic missiles if Israel attacks the Islamic republic, IRNA quoted on Sunday the Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Aerospace Unit, Amir Ali Hajizadeh as saying

*The former chief commander of the Hamas’s military wing in the West Bank, Ibrahim Hamed, was given on Sunday 54 life sentences for organizing series of suicide terrorist attacks against Israelis that killed 46, injured over 400 people, Israeli media reported

*Iran's complaint against Russia over Moscow's refusal to deliver S-300 air defense systems in a $800 million contract is under examination at the relevant international legal bodies, Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Sunday

*A reactor at the Ohi nuclear power plant in central Japan is set to go back on line later on Sunday, NHK Television reported

*A small amount of radioactive cesium has been detected in the urine samples of 141 children in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, where the crippled nuclear power plant is still leaking radiation, the Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday

RUSSIA

*Moscow acquired on Sunday 150,000 hectares of neighboring territories from its southwest borders, following the city’s expansion plan brokered by then-President Dmitry Medvedev in 2011

*The bust of Russian cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, has been unveiled at Long Island's Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, NY, Newsday reported on Sunday

SPORTS

*Russia's national basketball team is fit to fight for its London 2012 berth, former Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko said Sunday

*Slovakian debutant Peter Sagan won the first stage of the Tour de France on Saturday but failed to take the yellow jersey from prologue winner Fabian Cancellara

*Euro 2012 finalists Italy initially feared failure at the tournament after a match-fixing scandal and poor form, goalkeeper and captain Gianluigi Buffon said Sunday