Main News of July 21

A roundup of what has happened during the past 24 hours

WORLD

*A U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi descent has pleaded guilty to plotting to attack the U.S. Pentagon and the Congress headquarters with the explosives-laden remote-controlled model airplanes, BBC reported on Saturday

*Belgium's Foreign Ministry issued a warning calling on Belgians to avoid trips to Syria and for those there to leave the country "immediately", Le Soir paper reported on Friday evening

*At least 26 people were killed, including three children, and 27 injured after a passenger bus veered off a bridge and plunged into ravine in the west of Mexico on Friday

RUSSIA

*Russia’s two largest rights organizations will not comply with the law that classes them as "foreign agents,” the NGO’s heads said just hours after President Vladimir Putin signed the controversial bill

*Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Saturday a federal law that authorizes the protocol for Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Kremlin said

*Court on Saturday arrested four of the six men suspected of attempting to murder the Mufti of Tatarstan in Kazan and shooting his former deputy, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom

*Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed a law forcing non-government organizations (NGO) engaged in political activity with foreign financing to be classed as "foreign agents."

SPORTS

*A late own goal handed Spartak Moscow a 2-1 victory over Alania Vladikavkaz in their opening game of the Russian Premier League season on Saturday

*The rain prevented Caterham driver Vitaly Petrov from displaying his most fierce aggression in Saturday's qualifying session for the German Grand Prix, the Russian said

*Vladimir Putin gave the Russian Olympic team a presidential send-off on Saturday, asking dozens of the country's medal hopes to ensure the national anthem rings out "as often as possible" at the London Games