Main News of July 3

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Egyptian military deposed President Mohamed Morsi and suspended the country’s constitution, the country’s defense minister said

* Bolivia accused European countries of violating international law after a plane carrying the country’s president was diverted and searched Wednesday over suspicion that it might have fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on board

* A Polish court ruled against extraditing a Russian national suspected of defrauding several companies of stock and property worth an estimated $12 million

RUSSIA

* Twenty four people died when a Russian helicopter crash-landed in eastern Siberia, the Emergency Situations Ministry said

* As a Chechen militant leader called on Islamist fighters to “compromise” Russia’s Sochi Olympics, federal counter-terrorism officials pledged safety at the international sports events to be held in the country

* President Vladimir Putin has given final approval to legislation banning adoptions of Russian children by same-sex couples abroad, the Kremlin press service said

* Legislation to pardon first-time violators of financial laws will come into effect on Thursday, state newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported