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NASA believes it has found ice on Mars after white patches uncovered by digging from the Phoenix lander are found to have sublimated.
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 (pictured) hits the Philippines, killing dozens on land, forcing tens of thousands to seek shelter and sinking the ferry MV Princess of Stars with hundreds of passengers missing.
The NASA/CNES Jason-2 satellite launches, with a mission of furthering the study of physical oceanography.
Sweden approves the FRA law, anti-terrorism legislation allowing e-mails and phone calls to be monitored by the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment.
Afghan and Canadian-led ISAF forces begin an offensive against Taliban insurgents in the Arghandab District of Kandahar Province.

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June 24, 2008 (Tuesday)

Florida buys 187,000 acres of sugar farms to expand and protect the Everglades National Park. (The Guardian)
Franz Josef Jung, the German Minister of Defence announces plans to commit a thousand extra troops to Afghanistan. (Reuters)
Divers see bodies in the wreck of the MV Princess of the Stars off the coast of the Philippines but no sign of survivors. (Reuters via The Age)
Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) says the country is in the grip of a recession for the first time in a quarter of a century. However, it predicts the economy will return to positive growth in 2009 and normal growth by 2010. (RTÉ News)

June 23, 2008 (Monday)

Malaysia releases Buhary Syed Abu Tahir, a leading business associate of Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan. (BBC News)
The 2008 meeting of the International Whaling Commission begins in Santiago, Chile. (BBC News)
Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), is found ineligible by a court to stand in upcoming by-elections. (BBC News)
In Serbia, the Milošević-founded Socialist Party is to join the coalition led by the pro-Western Democratic Party which came to power in 2007 elections. (BBC News)
China fires twelve officials for misconduct in the Sichuan earthquake relief effort. (BBC News)
The Supreme Court of the United States refuses to hear an appeal of eminent domain eviction notices in connection with the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, New York City. (AP via Yahoo! News)
The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rules that Hozaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uyghur militant currently detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, cannot be ruled an "enemy combatant" because he never took up arms against the United States. (AP via Yahoo! News)
The European Union agrees to new sanctions against Iran including a freeze on the assets of Bank Melli, Iran's largest bank, over the refusal to curb its nuclear program. (Reuters via Sydney Morning Herald)
Zimbabwean Electoral Crisis:
- Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai seeks refuge in Dutch Embassy. (BBC News)
- The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice questions the legitimacy of the upcoming presidential election and calls for relevant bodies such as the African Union and the United Nations Security Council to consider the issue. (Reuters)
- The United Nations Security Council condemns the Government of Zimbabwe for a "campaign of violence". (AP via Google News)
The 2008 Wimbledon Championships begins in London. (TSN via Canada.com)
2008 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Fengshen in the Philippines
- An additional 28 survivors from the MV Princess of the Stars are found but there are still more than 800 missing from the vessel that sunk during Typhoon Fengshen. (Reuters)
An Australian air safety group claims that Yogyakarta International Airport was operating illegally with no valid license at the time Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashed, killing 21. They also accuse two other airports of similar violations and three official bodies of keeping it from public knowledge. (Crikey)

June 22, 2008 (Sunday)

The Global Anglican Future Conference, a forum for conservative bishops and leaders of the Anglican Communion, opens in Jerusalem as an alternative to the Fourteenth Lambeth Conference. (BBC News)
Tarija Department becomes the fourth Bolivian department to vote for greater autonomy from the government of the President of Bolivia Evo Morales. (AFP via Google News)
A female suicide bomber kills at least 16 people and injures another 40 in Baquba, Iraq. (CNN)
Saudi Arabia offers to increase its oil production slightly at an oil summit in Jeddah. (The New York Times)
Zimbabwe Electoral Crisis
- Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulls out of the June 27 run-off presidential election after President Robert Mugabe's supporters attacked his rally. (Reuters) (Bloomberg)
2008 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Fengshen in the Philippines
- The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Fengshen rises to at least 155 according to Red Cross estimates with 59 people dead and 40 people missing in Iloilo province alone. (AP via Google News) (AP via Google News)
A large bus collides head-on with a smaller minibus in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, leaving nine dead. (The International Herald Tribune)
Spain beat Italy 4-2 on penalties after finishing 0-0 at full time, in the last of the Euro 2008 quarter finals.

June 21, 2008 (Saturday)

France and Algeria sign an agreement that could lead to French nuclear power technology being employed in Algerian reactors. (BBC News)
Militants in Pakistan fire mortars on a NATO base and Afghan army base. (Economic Times in Pakistan)
An employee for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Somalia is kidnapped. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
The Government of the Central African Republic signs a peace deal with two rebel groups which promises amnesty for rebel soldiers. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
Militants in Delta State, Nigeria, blow up a Chevron oil pipeline leading to a cessation of production by Chevron in Nigeria. (Bloomberg)
2008 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Fengshen in the Philippines
- The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Fengshen rises to at least 20 from flooding and landslides. Ten people drown after the Rifao River overflows its banks and sweeps away three houses in South Upi, Maguindanao. (Xinhua)
- At least four people die with the balance missing when the ferry MV Princess of the Stars, carrying 700 passengers, sinks near Sibuyan island in the wake of Typhoon Fengshen. (Reuters) (Reuters)
South Korea renegotiates its beef import deal with the United States following widespread protests at the original deal due to concerns over mad cow disease. (Bloomberg)
Four ISAF soldiers are killed by a bomb in Afghanistan. (AP via MSNBC)
Sudan Airways is grounded for a month by the Civil Aviation Authority of Sudan for violations prior to their most recent crash. (BBC News) (Reuters)
UEFA Euro 2008: Russia beat Netherlands 3-1 after extra time, advancing to the semi-finals. (UEFA Euro 2008 website)

June 20, 2008 (Friday)

2008 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Fengshen in the Philippines
- At least two people die in a landslide in Cotabato City in Mindanao as Typhoon Fengshen hits the Philippines. (Bloomberg)
UAE wins the first ever Arab Cup of Ice Hockey by defeating Kuwait 4-1. (National Team Scores)
Thai Political Crisis
- People's Alliance for Democracy marched to the Government House in Bangkok demand that the Prime Minister, Samak Sundaravej step down. (BBC News)
The Franco-American Jason-2 satellite launches, with a mission of furthering the study of physical oceanography. (BBC News)
Police in Nepal detain more than 700 Tibetan exiles protesting outside the Chinese embassy and arrest three activists for alleged anti-China activities. (AFP via Google News)
A suicide bomb attack in southern Afganistan kills 6 civilians. (BBC News)
Phoenix lander exploration of Mars
- After white patches uncovered by digging from the Phoenix lander are found to have sublimated by the lander's cameras, NASA believes it has found water ice on Mars. (NASA)
The European Union agrees to lift the sanctions it has imposed on Cuba since the 2003 Cocktail Wars dispute. (RTÉ) (BBC News)
Twelve people are trampled to death trying to escape a police raid in northern Mexico City. (CNN)

June 19, 2008 (Thursday)

The President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez threatens to stop selling oil to European countries who apply new European Union legislation on illegal immigration. (Reuters)
Iraqi security forces enter the city of Amarah, arrest its Sadrist mayor, and take control. (BBC News)
An Alabama state judge upholds a fraud verdict against AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals in a Medicaid drug pricing suit but reduces the value of damages to $160 million. (AP via Forbes)
The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accuses the United States of plotting to kidnap and assassinate him during a visit to Iraq. (AP via Forbes)
Subprime mortgage crisis
- A Congressional ethics panel is examining allegations that Democrat Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut (the sponsor of a major $300 billion housing bailout bill) and Kent Conrad of North Dakota received preferential loans by troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
- Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers are arrested and will be the first Wall Street executives to face criminal charges. (Bloomberg)
Royal Dutch Shell shuts down an offshore oil installation in Nigeria after an attack from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta. (AP via Google News)
Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008:
- Zimbabwe police arrest an opposition Movement for Democratic Change lawmaker and place six others on a wanted list. (AFP)
- The bodies of four people who opposed Robert Mugabe have been found in Harare. (Sky News)
Lee Myung-bak, the President of South Korea, apologises to South Koreans over an unpopular decision to resume importing beef from the United States. (Reuters)
Commencing at dawn, the Israeli Government and Hamas declare a truce in the Israel-Gaza conflict, halting attacks across the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. (Chicago Tribune)
A report reveals sailors onboard the submarine HMCS Chicoutimi during a 2004 fire may develop serious health problems as a result. (Canada.com)
Four German and Spanish servicemen die when their EUFOR helicopter crashes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Deutsche Welle)

June 18, 2008 (Wednesday)

Brazil celebrates the 100th year of the Japanese Immigration. (Folha Online)
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed survives an assassination attempt. (BBC News)
The Parliament of the United Kingdom ratifies the Treaty of Lisbon. (Bloomberg)
The United States and China agree to negotiate an investment treaty and to cooperate more closely on energy security and global pollution. (AP via Google News)
The European Parliament passes legislation to allow undocumented aliens to be held in detention centres for up to 18 months and banned from European Union territory for five years. (The New York Times)
Mexico reaches an agreement with industry groups to fix the prices of 150 food items as a result of accelerating inflation. (Bloomberg)
Sudan and former southern rebels start deploying joint forces in the troubled Abyei region as part of an agreement. (AP via Forbes)
Russian prosecutors charge three men in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. (BBC News)
China and Japan agree to joint development of the Chunxiao gas field in a disputed area of the East China Sea. (BBC News)
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. (BBC News)
The Gujjar community of the Indian state of Rajasthan achieves a compromise recognition as a special category of Other Backward Class in the state's affirmative action program, comparable to the status of Banjaras and Rabaris. (BBC News)
American golfer Tiger Woods will miss the rest of the golf season to have additional surgery on his left knee. (MarketWatch)
Romanian villagers vote to re-elect a dead man as their mayor, to prevent his living rival winning. (BBC News)
The High Court of South Africa extends affirmative action benefits of the Black Economic Empowerment program to members of the South African Chinese community. (BBC News)
Six laptops containing information on about 20,000 patients are stolen from a London hospital. (BBC News)
Afghan and Canadian forces begin an offensive against the Taliban in the Arghandab District of Kandahar. (Press Association via Google News)
Israel agrees to a truce starting Thursday with the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip. (BBC News)
Israel suggests peace talks with Lebanon to end the 60-year Israeli-Lebanese conflict. (The Guardian)
Sweden votes in favour of the FRA law, allowing all e-mails and phone calls to be monitored. (The Local)

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