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- American actor Gary Coleman dies in Provo, Utah, aged 42, two days after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage. (Today Entertainment) (CBC) (The Irish Times) (Los Angeles Times)
- Contributions from Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland allow the World Bank to cancel $36 million in Haiti's remaining debt following January 2010 devastating earthquake. (Al Jazeera)
- At least three people die, at least four others are missing, a 15-day state of calamity is declared and the international airport is shut down due to the eruption of the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala. (CNN)
- Assailants attack two mosques in Lahore, Pakistan, killing at least 80 and injuring 50 more. (Al Jazeera) (Times of India) (Malaysia Star)
- At least 25 people are killed and 150 injured in India after a Mumbai train with 13 passenger coaches is derailed by an explosion on the tracks and collides with another train as it traveled through the Paschim Medinipur district, a rebel stronghold in eastern India. (Reuters) (USA Today) (The Hindu) (Times of India) (BBC)
- Hundreds of corpses buried in a mudslide which swept away three villages on the slopes of Mount Elgon near Bududa, Uganda, three months ago are yet to be recovered. (BBC)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Czech Republic votes in legislative elections. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (France24) (Reuters)
- Nepal heads towards another political crisis. (Al Jazeera)
- North Korea:
- Peruvian AIDESEP indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, detained on Wednesday as he returned from almost a year in exile in Nicaragua and charged with objecting to oil digging in the rainforest, is released on bail. (BBC)
- President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, in a rare disagreement with another African state, issues a statement of condemnation following Malawi's sentencing of a same-sex couple to 14 years in jail. (IOL)
- The BBC intervenes and tensions escalate after the UK cabinet members' threat to boycott Question Time unless Alastair Campbell, former adviser to Tony Blair, is removed from the panel. (The Guardian) (RTÉ) (Sky News) (BBC)
- The owner of Taiwan's Foxconn Technology factory in Shenzhen, where several employees have committed suicide, increases wages by 20 per cent in an effort to boost morale. (BBC)
- Gulf of Mexico oil spill:
- Australia promises to begin legal action against Japan due to disagreeing with its annual whaling hunt in the Southern Ocean. (BBC)
- Indonesia announces a two-year moratorium on rainforest logging in return for up to $1bn in aid from Norway, which will help preserve forests. (Al Jazeera), (NY Times), (ABC), (The Norway Post), (The Jakarta Post)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steven Spielberg help unveil the rebuilt outdoor sets with imitation New York streets of Universal Studios in Los Angeles, United States. The sets were destroyed in a 2008 fire. (BBC) (CBC)
- After a personal intervention from Nicolas Sarkozy, France beats Turkey and Italy for the right to stage the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament. (CBC) (BBC) (RTÉ) (France24)
- Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama give the United States men's national soccer team a presidential send-off to South Africa from the White House ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (China Daily) (IOL) (The News International)
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- The death toll in the recent violence in Jamaica jumps to 73, and 44 in west Kingston alone. (Al Jazeera) (Montreal Gazette)
- At least 7 people die and at least 40 others are injured after a bomb explodes before a performance in Stavropol. (CBC) (CNN) (Deutsche Welle) (RIA Novosti)
- The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is now the worst oil spill in U.S. history, surpassing the worst previous spill, the Exxon Valdez wreck on the Alaska coast in 1989, according to scientists' latest estimates. (Chicago Tribune)
- A US-born Yemenite cleric linked to Al-Qaeda, Anwar Al-Awlaki advocates the killing of US civilians in a new Al Qaeda video. (USA Today)
- Two campaigners for LGBT rights in Zimbabwe are freed after spending six days in custody on charges of possessing pornographic material and insulting President Robert Mugabe. (BBC) (IOL) (News24.com)
- North Korea says it will scrap an accord aimed at preventing accidental naval clashes with South Korea after being blamed for a torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship. (CBC)
- France detains Rwandan doctor Eugene Rwamucyo, wanted by Interpol since 2006 and accused of involvement in the Rwandan Genocide. (BBC)
- Sudan:
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Israel summons the ambassadors of Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Sweden and Turkey to protest the expedition as an unnecessary provocation after eight ships, including four cargo vessels and a Turkish passenger ferry carrying 600 people, including a Nobel peace laureate and former U.S. congresswoman, set sail for Gaza with 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to break a three-year Israeli blockade on the territory. (RTÉ) (Associated Press) (Voice of America)(The Jerusalem Post)
- Organizers of the aid flotilla refuse an offer of support by the family of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit if they would urge Hamas to allow the soldier to receive letters and food packages from his family and international organizations to visit him. (Ynetnews) (The Jerusalem Post) (Haaretz)
- Israel invites the convoy to unload its cargo at the port of Ashdod, where the cargo will be checked for weapons and then the humanitarian goods will be distributed by land to Gaza. (Haaretz) (The Jerusalem Post)
- The Israeli Army shows journalists a detention centre in Ashdod where those on board will locked up, saying Israelis would be arrested, Palestinians would be questioned by the Israeli secret service, and foreign nationals would be sent home. (Al Jazeera)
- In its annual report, Amnesty International says both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes and violated international law during the Gaza War. (Xinhua)
- Cyprus bans flotilla vessels from gathering in its territorial waters, a move described by Israel as "an ethical deed and a voice of reason". (Ynetnews)
- Two Palestinians are wounded in an Israeli air strike east of Gaza City in response to Palestinians firing mortar into Israel. (AFP)
- Pakistan:
- Licences are granted to four private daily newspapers as part of media reforms in Zimbabwe. (BBC) (CNN)
- Singapore closes beaches along 7.2 kilometers (4.5 miles) of its east coast as an oil spill from the damaged Malaysian tanker MT Bunga Kelana 3 continues to spread. (AP) (Reuters India) (BBC)
- Libya welcomes the return of some ancient relics stolen by British soldiers in the 1950s and now on display in Tripoli's Museum of Libya. (IOL) (BBC) (Daily Mail) (News24.com)
- Tens of thousands of workers strike in protest against government plans to raise the retirement age in France. (BBC) (Bangkok Post) (RTÉ) (The Washington Post) (Al Jazeera)
- Stanley Kingaipe and Charles Chookole, two ex-officers in Zambia's air force, are awarded 10 million kwacha in damages following claims they were tested and treated for HIV without their knowledge. (BBC)
- Spain's parliament approves by one vote a €15 billion austerity package to rein in the country's budget deficit. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- French Polynesia Vice President Edouard Fritch is arrested in a bribery probe. (RNZI)
- Peter James Bethune, a New Zealand anti-whaling campaigner, pleads guilty to four charges over his alleged attacks on the Japanese whaling vessel MV Shōnan Maru 2 in February. (ABC) (Radio New Zealand) (The Jakarta Post)
- The first launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is delayed to no earlier than June 2, 2010, due to delays in a Delta IV GPS satellite launch. (Space.com News)
- Ten acts, including former winner Niamh Kavanagh, progress to the final of Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Bærum, Oslo. Sweden fails to qualify for the first time in its history. (The Irish Times) (BBC)
- Arcade Fire confirm the release of their third album, The Suburbs. (CBC) (The Guardian) (NME) (Reuters)
- Former child actor Gary Coleman is hospitalised in a critical condition in the United States. (CNN) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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- More than 80 students are sickened in a girl’s school in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in a in poison gas attack suspected to have been carried out by Taliban assailants whose version of Islam is opposed to girls being educated.(USA Today)
- International Criminal Court judges tell the UN Security Council that the Sudanese government is protecting suspects wanted for war crimes in Darfur instead of arresting them to face trial. (The Globe and Mail)
- Jamaican police arrest more than 500 people after an unsuccessful attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin in Kingston, the capital, results in violence that leaves at least 44 people dead. (CNN) (BBC)
- Two of Ethiopia's main opposition leaders call for a rerun of Sunday's elections won by Western-backed Meles Zenawi. They say the elections were not free and fair and that two politicians were killed by security forces. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Hindu) (Reuters)
- Brandenburg reaches level four on the disaster alert scale as water levels along the Oder and Neisse rivers continue to rise. (Deutsche Welle)
- Israel launches two night-time air strikes on the Gaza Strip in response to mortar attacks and the detonation of 200kg of explosives laden on a donkey-cart next to the border fence. (BBC) (The Jerusalem Post)
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemns Iran, saying his people were “hijacked, at the hands of the Iranians”; possibly referring to Hamas's refusal to reconcile with Fatah on Iran's command by announcing on that it would boycott the Palestinian municipal elections (The Jerusalem Post)
- Palestinian Authority security forces arrest scores of Hamas officials and supporters in the West Bank a day after Hamas announced that it would boycott the Palestinian municipal elections scheduled for July 17. (The Jerusalem Post)
- The chief rabbi of a West Bank settlement declares that women should be prohibited from standing in a local community election. (BBC)
- Nuclear program of Iran:
- Lori Berenson is freed on parole after serving 15 years in a Peruvian prison for aiding the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. (BBC)
- Iraq announces the disolution of state-owned Iraqi Airways over the next three years and the pursuit of private options to avoid asset claims made by Kuwait over their 1990-91 war. (Al Jazeera)
- The International Criminal Court reports Sudan to the United Nations Security Council for refusing to arrest former Minister Ahmed Haroun and militia leader Ali Muhammad Al Abd-Al-Rahman. (BBC)
- A Lusaka court convicts former Zambian Finance Minister Katele Kalumba of corruption and sentences him to five years with hard labour. Six other people, including former officials in the finance ministry, are also found guilty of corruption. (BBC) (IOL)
- 2 people are injured and several vehicles are destroyed during a blast in Kandahar. (Al Jazeera)
- Charles Djou is sworn into the United States House of Representatives, representing Hawaii's 1st congressional district. (Fox News)
- Space Shuttle Atlantis completes its final scheduled mission after landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Xinhua) (CNN) (BBC)
- Elton John makes his Moroccan debut at the Mawazine festival in Rabat ignoring calls for him to be banned by Islamists who feared he would offend public morals. (BBC)
- Virtual band Gorillaz are announced to replace U2 as headliners of the Glastonbury Festival 2010. (BBC) (CBC) (RTÉ) (Reuters) (The Times)
- The Alaotra Grebe, a grebe endemic to Madagascar, is declared extinct 25 years after its last reported sighting. (BBC)
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- The death toll from the fighting in Kingston, Jamaica's capital, jumps to 27. (BBC)
- May 2010 Central European floods:
- An international operation against a major drug trafficking gang deals "a major blow" as 26 people are arrested in Ireland, Spain and the United Kingdom, including a capo di tutti capi. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (BBC) (France24) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launches TV Brasil Internacional, an international television station currently broadcasting to African nations. (BBC) (France24) (MercoPress)
- Increased tensions over the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan: South Korea begins broadcasting propaganda over its border with North Korea. North Korea severs all ties and communications with the South and expels Southern workers from a jointly-run factory above the border. (Yonhap) (BBC)
- A court in Thailand issues an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on charges of terrorism, following a report by the Thai Department of Special Investigations, which concluded that he had financed Red Shirt protesters and had helped them smuggle in weapons and fighters from Cambodia, during the 2010 political crisis. (Al Jazeera)
- At least 17 people die after a tourist bus crashes in Antalya. (RIA Novosti) (BBC) (CBS News) (Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review) (Today's Zaman)
- A white teacher in Dahlonega, Georgia is suspended after permitting non-black students to bring bed sheets and cone-shaped party hats to school to dress in the traditional costume of right-wing white supremacist nationalist organisation Ku Klux Klan for a film project. She refuses to apologise after the issue is raised by African-American students when one of them was asked to take part in a re-enactment of a lynching. (BBC) (Pretoria News) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Iran releases film director Jafar Panahi after more than two months in custody, including a hunger strike, following an international campaign led by the actress Juliette Binoche. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian)
- The Malaysian tanker MT Bunga Kelana 3 and a bulk carrier collide in the Singapore Strait, resulting in an estimated 2,000 tonnes of oil spilled. (Reuters) (The Times) (Straits Times)
- The Supreme Court of Pakistan dismisses a government appeal to detain Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, a Muslim cleric suspected by India to have masterminded the 2008 Mumbai attacks. (Reuters) (AP)
- Italy's cabinet approves an austerity budget to cut its deficit by €24 billion in 2011 and 2012. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Miami Herald)
- Sicilians react with outrage to an advert for a clothing shop in Palermo featuring Adolf Hitler dressed in pink and a heart instead of a swastika. (BBC)
- Russia's new Cyrillic alphabet Internet domain (.рф) launches on 476 sites. (RIA Novosti)
- A study indicates that the Pac-Man game Google put on its home page Friday led to the loss of almost five million man-hours (or 550 years) of work time. (BBC) (CBC News) (Daily Mail)
- Bono is released from hospital in Munich following his spinal surgery as U2 confirm the postponement of the North America leg of the U2 360° Tour and cancel their headlining slot at the Glastonbury Festival 2010. (The Irish Times) (CNN) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Swedish model Charlotte Lindström is released from Long Bay Prison in Sydney after serving a three year sentence for plotting to kill two people; she served the time in total isolation because of death threats towards her. (Herald Sun)
- South African opera star Siphiwo Ntshebe, chosen by Nelson Mandela to sing "Hope" at the opening ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup next month, dies suddenly aged 34 after contracting meningitis. (IOL) (BBC) (CBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian)
- Ivor Powell, the world's oldest football coach and "one of the great footballers of his generation" retires at the age of 93. (BBC)
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- Trinidad and Tobago holds a general election, resulting in the victory of the United National Congress, and Kamla Persad-Bissessar becoming its first female Prime Minister. (CaribbeanWorldNews), (Xinhua)
- The death toll as a result of severe flooding in Poland reaches 15 as Interior Minister Jerzy Miller says "The situation is worse than expected". (Deutsche Welle) (The Irish Times) (Press TV) (RTÉ)
- Hamas announces that it will boycott Palestinian municipal elections, saying said that the elections were being held under the supervision of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s “unconstitutional government” and would lack fairness and credibility. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Israel:
- Operation Herrick:
- Sinking of the ROKS Cheonan:
- Two police officers are killed and six others are wounded by gunmen during unrest in Jamaica's capital, Kingston. (BBC) (Sky News)
- The first China-Europe High-Level Political Party Forum convenes in Beijing. (Global Times)
- The second round of the U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue begins in Beijing, China. (CNN) (Xinhua)
- The assassination of Bashar al-Ageidi from the election-winning Iraqiya bloc of Ayad Allawi takes place outside his house in Mosul. (BBC)
- Partial results show Western-backed leader Meles Zenawi's party is going to win the national Ethiopian election, although there are allegations it was rigged. (BBC) (The Times) (The Daily Telegraph)
- A panel of judges rules that Kenya's Islamic courts favour Islam and that this is unconstitutional as Kenya is a secular country. (BBC)
- Niger proposes reforms that would see only those with a university degree be allowed to run in presidential elections and parliamentary candidates be under the age of seventy and have some form of secondary education. Opposition groups say this discriminates against the 80 per cent of the population that is illiterate. (BBC)
- President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is met with protests during a speech in Khorramshahr. (BBC) (Reuters) (Voice of America)
- The International Monetary Fund says "far-reaching" reforms are vital for Spain's economy. (BBC)
- Plane Stupid protesters break into Manchester Airport and lock arms around an aircraft. Flights are suspended. (Sky News)
- At least three people die and four others are critically injured in a school bus crash in Keswick, Cumbria in the Lake District of North West England in the United Kingdom. (Sky News)
- The people of Huddersfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees of West Yorkshire in England are ordered to remain indoors and several schools are shut down after a huge fire engulfs a chemical plant in the area. (Sky News)
- The UK's General Medical Council bans Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who was the first to publish research suggesting a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism, from practicing in the country, finding him guilty of "serious professional misconduct." (AP) (BBC) (The Washington Post) (Wall Street Journal)
- Peter Harvey, the UK teacher who attacked a pupil with a dumbbell while shouting "die, die, die", is sentenced to community order as his trial ends in Nottingham. The judge calls him as a "thoroughly decent man". (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian) (The Irish Times) (RTÉ) (The Times)
- Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader and South Down MP Margaret Ritchie resigns from the Northern Ireland Executive. Alex Attwood is the new Minister for Social Development. (RTÉ)
- Sarah, Duchess of York receives support from businessman Simon Cowell and an award for her work with the disadvantaged children of the U.S. city of Los Angeles despite being caught in a newspaper sting in Britain. (Sky News)
- Iran's largest water supply project is inaugurated in Khorramshahr. (Bernama) (Press TV) (Tehran Times)
- Paul Gray, bassist and founding member of heavy metal group Slipknot, is found dead at the age of 38 by a hotel employee in his room in Iowa, United States. (The Guardian) (Xinhua) (TIME) (ABC News)
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- At least 19 passengers were killed and more than 70 were injured, when a landslide in rain-drenched Yujiang, East China's Jiangxi Province. (Global Times)
- A state of emergency is declared in the Jamaican capital Kingston after armed gangs attacked police and blockaded parts of the city in an attempt to prevent the arrest of a drug lord. (Jamaica Observer) (BBC) (CNN)
- A five-day strike at British Airways is announced to begin tomorrow following a breakdown in talks which were invaded by protesters yesterday. (Al Jazeera) (The Australian) (The Daily Telegraph) (Wall Street Journal)
- Ethiopian general election, 2010:
- Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh vote in a parliamentary election as more than 70 international observers watch. (Voice of Russia) (Reuters)
- A train traveling from Shanghai to Guilin derails in a mountainous area near Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China, and is destroyed, killing at least 19 and injuring 71 others. (Xinhua) (BBC) (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- The death toll in Poland's worst flooding in 60 years reaches 12. (Al Jazeera)
- Clashes break out between Indian and Pakistani troops near the border in the disputed Kashmir region. (Al Jazeera) (Hindustan Times)
- Dozens of masked gunmen from an Islamist group break into a United Nations-run Gaza summer camp for children and set it on fire, after beating up the guard and destroying the plastic tents. (The Jerusalem Post) (Al Jazeera)
- Somalia's presidential palace is targeted by Al-Shabab militants in a mortar attack. (Press TV) (Reuters) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (AP)
- Rescue teams hunt for the data recorders from Air India Express Flight 812. (BBC) (The Times) (Japan Today)
- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama makes an apology for breaking an election promise to get rid of a U.S. military base located in Okinawa which he and the United States believe is "needed to guarantee regional security". Demonstrators affected by this failure order him to "go home". (BBC)
- Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower who spent 18 years in prison, goes back to jail for violating the terms of his parole. (AP) (CNN)
- Sinking of the ROKS Cheonan:
- The Cuban government eases jail conditions for political prisoners following talks with Catholic Church leaders and President Raúl Castro. (Reuters) (Press Trust of India) (BBC)
- Maria Vittoria Longhitano, Italy's first woman priest, belonging to a breakaway Catholic order, is ordained. (BBC) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- The Catholic Church requests the public to donate at least £1 million to church collections today to fund three big open air masses at which Pope Benedict XVI will present while in the UK. The rest of the money is paid for by the British government. (BBC)
- Nine ships under the banner Freedom Flotilla, from the UK, Ireland, Algeria, Kuwait, Greece and Turkey, and comprised of 800 people from 50 nationalities, begin a trip to Gaza, the biggest attempt by international aid groups to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel informs them they will be stopped for "breaching Israeli law". (Al Jazeera)
- Two militants are killed in the woods near Serzhen-Yurt in Shali, Chechen Republic. (Voice of Russia)
- Sarah, Duchess of York's involvement in a "cash for royal access" scandal is filmed by undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood; she asked for a $40,000 (£27,650) golden handshake in cash and for £500,000 to be sent to her bank in return for access to Prince Andrew. (The Times) (The Daily Telegraph) (News of the World) (Al Jazeera)
- Sweden's "Treskilling Yellow", the most expensive postage stamp in the world, retains its title at a private auction. (AP) (The Times of India)
- The UK tourist resort of Blackpool is expected to benefit "tens of millions" of pounds, described by the tourism chief as "unthinkable", following the local football club's elevation to the Premier League as an open-top bus tour is announced. (BBC)
- The Champs-Élysées is covered in earth and turned into a huge green space by young financially impoverished farmers. (BBC) (The Independent) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (pictured) wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival much to the surprise of the BBC. (BBC)
- The Rolling Stones achieve their first UK number one album for 16 years with a re-release of Exile on Main St.. (BBC)
- Czech Republic defeats Russia in 2010 IIHF World Championship final. (The Washington Post)
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