02.06 Main News of June 2

WORLD

* An international peace conference on ending the ongoing civil conflict in Syria could take place in July, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said

* Egypts highest court on Sunday ruled as invalid the countrys upper house of parliament and a panel that drafted the country's constitution

* Another series of tornadoes struck the US state of Oklahoma, killing at least nine people and injuring more than a hundred, just 11 days after the area was hit by a devastating EF5 twister, US media reported

* A mock military parade to mark the Childrens Day in North Korea on Saturday: kids were dressed in miniature replicas of military uniforms and drove toy cars made to look like tanks and rocket launchers, Sky News reported

* Iran's intelligence ministry said on Sunday its agents have dismantled a terror network backed by Israel's Mossad that planned to disrupt the upcoming presidential polls, the Fars news agency said

* Almost a thousand of people were detained and 79 injured in Turkey when police attempted to disperse nationwide anti-government protests, Interior Minister Muammer Guler told a news conference on Saturday evening

* Iraqi authorities have uncovered two workshops producing chemical agents, such as sarin and mustard gas, BBC reported

* North Korea lashed at the South Korean president for insisting on government-level talks on the Kaesong industrial zone instead of accepting the communist country's earlier call for resolving tensions at the civilian level

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry held a telephone talk to discuss ways for resolving the Syria crisis, Russias Foreign Ministry said on its website

* The Syrian army has seized two cylinders of the nerve agent sarin in an operation in the city of Hama, Press TV reported

* Egypts police have released a group of tourists who had been earlier detained for allegedly shooting a pornographic movie in the popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada

* Some 60,000 people gathered for a