Main News of July 20

WORLD

* The UN Security Council extended by 30 days the mandates of 300 international observers in Syria

* North Korea vowed to “reexamine its nuclear issue” following the uncovering of U.S.-South Korean alleged plots to destroy a statue of North’s founding leader Kim Il-sung, Yonhap reported

* At least 12 people are reported to have been killed and another 50 injured in a shooting at a Denver movie theater during the premier of the new Batman movie, the local KOA radio station reported citing the Federal Bureau of Investigations

RUSSIA

* U.S. lawmakers passed a bill breaking contracts between the Pentagon and Russian state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport, which they claim is "arming the oppressive Syrian regime,” the House of Representatives said on its website

* The Alaed, the ship at the center of a recent diplomatic row between Russia and the West, arrived to St. Petersburg, according to the data from the AIS tracking system

* A Moscow court ruled to prolong custody of three women from the Pussy Riot punk group for another six months ahead of their trial on charges related to an anti-Putin protest

* A fifth suspect was detained over Thursday’s car bombing of the Mufti of Tatarstan in Kazan and the fatal shooting of his former deputy, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said