* At the air show, Russia's S7 Airlines (formerly Sibir Airlines) signed a contract with European aviation giant Airbus to buy 25 new A320 medium-haul passenger planes for more than $1.6 billion
* Russia's aircraft builder MiG said it plans to export 350 modernized MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters with a total value of $10-12 billion
* Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said:
- North Korean funds from a Macao bank were not transferred to a bank in Russia's Far East, where the North Korean government has an account
- The U.S. Treasury said no sanctions would be imposed against a Russian bank involved in the transfer of North Korean funds
* Three Lebanese soldiers were killed outside a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, in clashes between troops and Islamist militants entrenched in the camp, the country's National News Agency said
* Venezuela is planning to procure up to 10 modern diesel submarines and several Tor-M1 air defense missile complexes from Russia, a source at a Russian think tank said
* The European Union and Ukraine signed agreements on visa facilitation and readmission, the EU Council's press service said
* The foreign ministers of the 27 European Union countries who gathered for a European Union Council meeting in Luxembourg said the bloc is ready to resume comprehensive political dialogue with Cuba
* The European Union Council spoke in favor of a new UN Security Council resolution based on the Kosovo settlement plan proposed by special envoy Martti Ahtisaari
* Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Italy's capital for a two-day official visit
* International Launch Services Inc (ILS) and SES Satellite Leasing signed a contract to launch five telecommunications satellites on board Proton-M carrier rockets by the end of 2013, a Russian spacecraft manufacturer said
* Russian Railways, the country's rail monopoly, said it set up a joint venture with Germany, Poland and Belarus to streamline rail services and increase cargo traffic with Western Europe
* A Moscow court again rejected a decision by top prosecutors to conduct a new investigation against jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Siberia, calling it ungrounded, a court spokesperson said
* Russia's license agency will make a decision on the license agreement for the Kovykta gas field in East Siberia later this week, the natural resources minister said
* Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said Russia's industrial production grew 7.4% in the first five months of 2007
* Turkish doctors confirmed the presence of an unidentified poison in the blood of the Kyrgyz prime minister, discovered earlier by medical specialists in Kyrgyzstan, Prime Minister Almaz Atambayev said
* Ukraine is planning to launch a Sich-2 Earth remote sensing satellite into orbit in 2008, the National Space Agency said on its web site
* Israel resumed fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip after a one-day suspension following the territory's takeover by the radical Palestinian group Hamas, an Israeli newspaper said
* The Federal Nuclear Power Agency and Interros holding, one of Russia's largest private investment companies, agreed to jointly develop uranium deposits at home and abroad
* UN nuclear weapons inspectors may visit North Korea June 21 to discuss arrangements for the closure of the country's nuclear reactor expected in a few weeks' time, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said
* Ukraine's prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych, will visit Moscow June 21-22 to work out a program for long-term economic cooperation, the premier's chief of staff said
* The center-right party won French parliamentary elections, the country's Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for elections and ballot counting, said
* Astronauts from the Atlantis space shuttle completed a fourth spacewalk on the International Space Station (ISS), a NASA spokesperson said
