Main News of June 15

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

 

* Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani will become the next Iranian president after gathering enough votes in the first round of the country’s presidential election to avoid a run-off, according to official results announced.

* The creation of a no-fly zone in war-torn Syria would contravene international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, amid media speculation that the US plans to do just that.

* The Russian Foreign Ministry has described a resolution on Syria passed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as “biased” and said that it is an attempt to legitimize one particular Syrian opposition group.

 

RUSSIA

 

* Russian reporter Arkady Babchenko, allegedly detained in Istanbul by police and beaten up on Friday, will be deported from Turkey, the Russian Consulate in Istanbul said.

* Three people were hospitalized following a mass brawl involving several dozen people that took place in the center of Moscow in the early hours of Saturday morning, the local police department said.

* Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky, charged with fraud in Russia earlier this week, is not allowed to leave Cambodia before his trial in the southeastern Asian state is over, his lawyer said.

 

SPACE

 

* The European Space Agency’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-4) docked with the International Space Station, ESA said.

 

SPORT

 

* Russian judo star Yelena Ivashchenko, 28, is likely to have committed suicide by throwing herself from the 15th floor of an apartment block, the Investigative Committee said.

* Russian Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov has assured the international wrestling federation his organization will continue to campaign for wrestling’s reinstitution as an Olympic sport.