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Current topics
- NASA confirms ice at the Phoenix lander site on Mars after white patches uncovered by digging are found to have sublimated (pictured).
- Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulls out of the June 27 run-off presidential election after President Robert Mugabe's supporters attack his rally.
- Typhoon Fengshen hits the Philippines, killing dozens on land, forcing tens of thousands to seek shelter and sinking the ferry MV Princess of the Stars with hundreds of passengers missing.
- The NASA/CNES Jason-2 satellite launches, with a mission of furthering the study of physical oceanography.
- Relatives of Srebrenica massacre victims open a case in a Dutch court against the United Nations and the Netherlands for the failure of the Dutchbat force to prevent the killings.
- Sweden approves the FRA law, anti-terrorism legislation allowing e-mails and phone calls to be monitored by the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment.
