Main News of May 4

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Parts of the pilots’ bodies have been discovered at the site of Friday’s US military plane crash in northern Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz Emergencies Ministry said

* Dozens of protesters have gathered outside the Massachusetts funeral parlor where the body of suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev is being held, and local cemeteries are proving reluctant to provide a gravesite for the body, the funeral parlor director told the Associated Press

* Japan and India will continue talks on a bilateral pact for civilian nuclear energy cooperation, Japanese Finance Ministry officials said.

* China has commissioned a long-range surveillance frigate to boost its presence in the South China Sea, the Xinhua news agency reported

* Two Azerbaijani nationals have been detained in Iran for illegal activities, the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry said

RUSSIA

* Moscow believes there is a pressing need to hold an international conference on a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East before the end of the current year, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

* A murder investigation has been opened into the shooting death of Andrei Uvarov, deputy head of the department of science, industrial policy and enterprise for the Moscow government, Russia’s Investigative Committee announced

SPORTS

* Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won her second WTA title in the space of a month Saturday, defeating Carla Suarez Navarro in the final of the Portugal Open

* Six players scored and Ilya Brzygalov recorded an easy shutout as Russia pummeled Latvia 6-0 at the world hockey championship in Helsinki

* Sebastien Loeb took the win in the Argentinian round of the World Rally Championship in what is set to be the penultimate rally of the semi-retired nine-time champion’s career