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- North Korea threatens a military response if the United Nations Security Council questions or condemns it for the ROKS Cheonan sinking. North Korean UN Permanent Representative Sin Son Ho demands that a North Korean investigation team be allowed to travel to the site of the sinking. (Yahoo! News)
- Saville Inquiry:
- Islamist gunmen in Somalia shoot two people dead and detain 10 others who were watching a televised Soccer World Cup match; a member of one group later said watching the World Cup is anti-Islamic. (CNN)
- Heavy rain triggers landslides that leave at least 24 people dead in southern China. In one incident, part of a mountain fell on a construction site in Sichuan province, crushing workers who were sleeping in tents. (rfi.fr) (scmp) (news.com.pk)
- At least 23 people are dead as a result of landslides in southeastern Bangladesh. (Canadian Press via Google News)
- Nauru President Marcus Stephen calls for new elections scheduled June 19th due to parliamentary gridlock, just seven weeks after the April 2010 general election. (RNZI)
- The leaders of Ireland's two main political parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, come under fire. Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen faces a motion of no confidence in Dáil Éireann, his second in just over a year. Leader of the Opposition, Enda Kenny, who sacked his deputy leader yesterday to prevent a potential coup, faces further revolt from his party as nine more members of his frontbench call on him to resign. (Reuters Africa) (RTÉ)
- An American claiming to be hunting Osama bin Laden was arrested with a sword, a pistol and night-vision goggles in northwestern Pakistan. (AP via Fox News) (Wall St. Journal)
- 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis and 2010 South Kyrgyzstan riots:
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
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- At least 28 prisoners are killed in a clash between rival gangs in Sinaloa, Mexico. (Asiaone) (BBC) (newser)
- The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland rules that Romanian footballer Adrian Mutu has lost his final appeal in a five-year legal battle meaning he has to pay a record €17 million in damages for breaching his contract. (The Guardian) (BBC) (AsiaOne) (The Hindu) (CNN)
- Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson receives a copy of the Saville Inquiry, the longest and most expensive public inquiry in British history, ahead of its official launch by David Cameron tomorrow. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ)
- Amidst growing labour unrest in China, Premier Wen Jiabao visits migrant workers at a Beijing construction site and calls for better treatment for the country's migrant workers. (Strait Times) (Xinhua)
- Egypt and Al Jazeera Sports clash over claims of interference in the transmission of 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer matches. (Reuters Africa)
- A California judge refuses to suspend the medical licence of Conrad Murray, the doctor charged in connection with Michael Jackson's death. (AP via LA.com) (newser)
- At least 35 people are feared drowned and 50 people disappear after a boat capsizes on the Ganges River in northern India. (AP via CT Now) (Xinhua)
- At least 14 people are killed and at least 30 are injured when a tourist bus disappears over the edge of a ravine in the Philippines. (Xinhua)
- 10 police are killed and several others are wounded in an ambush by drug hitmen in Zitácuaro Michoacán. (The Star) (AP) (The Australian) (Los Angeles Times)
- Colombian security forces rescue two senior police officers and a soldier held hostage since 1 November 1998, among the longest-held captives; a fourth hostage is later rescued. (BBC) (France24) (Los Angeles Times) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Aljazeera) (BBC)
- Ireland's Fine Gael Deputy Leader and Finance Spokesperson Richard Bruton, brother of former Taoiseach John Bruton, is sacked after publicly declaring his lack of confidence in Fine Gael's leader Enda Kenny. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (Press Association)
- Churches in Kenya accuse the government of being behind a grenade attack at a rally opposed to a draft constitution which killed six people. (BBC) (AP) (Daily Nation)
- A team of American geologists and Pentagon officials say they have discovered vast mineral wealth, including iron, gold and lithium, estimated to worth nearly US$1 trillion, in Afghanistan, though other senior officials say this has been known since at least the 1970s. (CBS News) (Politico) (The Guardian) (AP)
- The arrest of several army officers in Guinea is not linked to elections, according to the country's army chief. (BBC)
- The Iraqi Council of Representatives convenes in Baghdad three months after inconclusive elections. (AFP via Google News)
- Polish authorities arrest a suspected Israeli agent in connection with the murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai in January. (BBC)
- Lanseria International Airport reopens after the removal of the wreckage of yesterday's emergency landing involving mainly Al Jazeera Sports broadcast staff on their way to cover the 2010 FIFA World Cup game between Algeria and Slovenia in Polokwane. (IOL)
- New files on American politician Edward Kennedy, which were previously secret, are released. (BBC)
- 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis and 2010 South Kyrgyzstan riots:
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces the 10th Annual Trafficking in Persons Report. (US Department of State)
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- 10 police were killed in an attack on Sunday on an outpost in Dai Kundi province in central Afghanistan. (TVNZ)
- An investigation by The Sunday Times alleges that Japan has bribed smaller nations in exchange for their vote to resume whaling at the International Whaling Commission. (The Sunday Times)
- A plane carrying 16 Al Jazeera Sports broadcast staff to the 2010 FIFA World Cup game between Algeria and Slovenia in Polokwane made an emergency landing at Lanseria International Airport following the jamming of the aircraft's landing gear. Lanseria International Airport is shut down. (Reuters Africa) (AFP) (Herald Sun) (IOL)
- 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis:
- 5 people have died and dozens been injured in a stampede at a rally in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. (BBC) (aajmedia)
- At least two people are killed and 20 injured in a stampede at a peace concert in Côte d'Ivoire. (BBC) (Philippine Inquirer)
- South African police shoot a lachrymatory agent at hundreds of 2010 FIFA World Cup stewards at pay cut protests in Durban. (BBC)
- Hezbollah warns Israel on gas fields being claimed by both Israel and Lebanon. (presstv.ir)(Ynet)(VJ)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is appointed by President Ivan Gašparovič to form a new government. (Xinhua)
- Belgian general election, 2010:
- Venezuelan authorities issue an arrest warrant for the head of Globovisión, the country's only remaining independent television station which criticises President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. (Aljazeera)
- An explosion injures 24 people at a rally opposed to a new draft constitution in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. (BBC) (Capital FM)
- Fighting between government troops and police in Somalia leaves at least 13 people dead and 14 injured in the capital Mogadishu. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters Africa)
- Two people are killed and six others are wounded during four explosions close to the entrance of the Iraqi central bank building in downtown Baghdad. (Xinhua)
- A 7.5-magnitude earthquake west of India's Nicobar Islands causes tremors felt along India's eastern seaboard and triggers a tsunami watch, which is later cancelled. (AFP) (NDTV)
- FIFA says it will assist Al Jazeera Sports in its investigation of the 2010 FIFA World Cup signal sabotage. (Business Week) (Hindustan Times) (The Zimbabwean)
- Wen Jiabao, the Premier of the People's Republic of China and Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan agree to establish a Prime Ministerial hotline between the two heads of government. (Xinhua)
- Joran Van der Sloot said he'll reveal the location of U.S teen Natalee Holloway's body to the investigators if authorities transfer him to an Aruban jail from his current jail in Peru. (Fox News)
- A London School of Economics report finds that Pakistan's largest intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, is secretly funding and training the Afghan Taliban. (BBC)
- South Korea's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Lee Sang-eui offers to retire over the recent warship sinking. (Xinhua)
- Britain's most senior military officer, Jock Stirrup, quits before the end of his term in April 2011, according to the country's Defence Secretary Liam Fox, as he has mishandled the country's war. (BBC) (The Irish Times) (Xinhua)
- Freed Swiss businessman Max Göldi is due to leave Libya. (Xinhua)
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft returns to earth near Woomera in northwest South Australia. (ABC Australia)
- Official documents say the United Kingdom's government considered denying the Korea DPR national football team visas to attend the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England for fear of "diplomatic shockwaves" brought on by Communism. (BBC) (AFP) (The Belfast Telegraph) (RTHK)
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- 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis:
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- Politics of Japan:
- François Bazaramba is sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in Porvoo, Finland's first genocide trial. (Aljazeera) (BBC) (news24.com) (Reuters)
- Israeli police fatally shoot a Palestinian driver who was attempting to run them down; the two policeman and three civilians are injured in the incident. (Jerusalem Post) (The New York Times)
- 40 people are killed and at least four others are wounded in an attack by at least 30 gunmen in Chihuahua, Mexico. (Xinhua) (The AP) (BBC) (Aljazeera) (Toronto Sun)
- At least 20 people die during flash floods of the Little Missouri River through a campground in the Ouachita Mountains near Caddo Gap, Arkansas, west of Little Rock, Arkansas in the United States. (China Daily) (Reuters)
- At least 11 civilians and two US soldiers are killed in southern Afghanistan: 9 of the civilian deaths are in a roadside bomb on a minibus in Kandahar. (Aljazeera)
- Pope Benedict XVI begs for forgiveness from God and from those who have been abused as children by priests. (The Daily Telegraph) (The New York Times) (RTÉ) (Aljazeera)
- A small plane crashes into Round Valley High School in Eagar, Arizona with at least two casualties. (Fox TV Phoenix)
- Researchers use X-ray techniques to discover that Rose of Viterbo died from thrombus in her heart, not tuberculosis as originally thought. (BBC) (The Star) (Fox News)
- New Zealand has a parliamentary expenses scandal, with one MP claiming for pornography. (BBC) (The Scotsman)
- Two motorcyclists, from Austria and New Zealand, are killed in the same Isle of Man TT race. (BBC)
- King George Tupou V proposes the use of nuclear energy in Tonga. (Canadian Business)
- An Israeli parliamentary lobby group submits a bill, supported by 25 politicians, proposing that boycotts of Israel be outlawed. (The Independent)
- Taipei pulls its films from the Shanghai International Film Festival over fears that China would claim them. (AP) (Asiaone)
- Jane Fonda is awarded the Great Medal of Paris by mayor Bertrand Delanoë for her contribution to the city's art and culture during the Paris Cinema Festival. (BBC) (AFP) (NPR) (The Canadian Press)
- 2010 FIFA World Cup:
- NCAA (U.S. college) conference realignment:
- Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile track the motion of gas giant Beta Pictoris b, the first time an extra-solar planet is tracked in orbit around a young star. (BBC)
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- Seven former British soldiers join 98 American soldiers to sue American defence firm KBR, who they say exposed them to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in Iraq. (BBC)
- Former president of Taiwan Chen Shui-bian's life sentence is cut to twenty years in prison. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
- Vujadin Popović and Ljubiša Beara, former high-ranking officers of the Bosnian Serb army, are found guilty of genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment for their roles in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the harshest judgment ever delivered by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
- Miloš Simović is arrested in a forest near Belgrade while attempting to cross into Croatia. He was convicted in absentia of the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić in 2003. (BBC) (Reuters) (Miami Herald)
- The Palestinian Authority (PA) indefinitely postpones local elections scheduled for July 17: no reason is provided. (Aljazeera)
- War in Afghanistan:
- Gulf of Mexico oil spill:
- The Obama administration announces that BP will speed up claims payments stemming from the massive Gulf oil spill, to fishermen, property owners and businesspeople who have filed damage claims and are complaining of delays, excessive paperwork and inadequate compensation. (USA Today) (AP)
- British Prime Minister David Cameron offers to help the US deal with the oil as clean-up costs mount and BP shares slide to their lowest levels in 13 years. (Reuters) (BBC)
- A new government calculation suggests that an amount of oil equivalent to approximately 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil could have been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico before BP capped some of the flow on June 3, an amount that is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day. (The New York Times)
- Max Goeldi, the Swiss businessman at the centre of a long-running diplomatic row between Libya and Switzerland, is released from prison in Tripoli. (BBC) (France24)
- A group of German Jews prepare to send a ship with humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. (AFP)
- Two Norwegians, including one with British citizenship, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are sentenced to death by a military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on charges of murder and espionage. (BBC)
- Kenyan police hunt for an alleged cult leader who instructed a serial killer to take up a killing spree. (Capital FM) (BBC) (IOL)
- Russia announces plans to sell Iran S-300 ground-to-air missiles, stating that the new United Nations sanctions do not cover stationary air defense weaponry. (Ynetnews)
- Ireland's Labour Party tops an opinion poll, the first time in the country's history that this has occurred and an event which would "radically alter" Irish politics in a general election. (Reuters Africa) (The Irish Times) (RTÉ) (The Wall Street Journal)
- Soweto hosts an opening concert ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, attended by tens of thousands of people and featuring appearances from international figures such as Desmond Tutu, Hugh Masekela, Amadou & Mariam, Shakira, Juanes, Black Eyed Peas and Alicia Keys. (AFP) (The Hindu) (USA Today)
- The first solar sail is unfurled by Japanese space organization JAXA. (inhabitat)
- South Korea's space agency, KARI, loses contact with a Naro-1 rocket carrying the STSAT-2B satellite, 132 seconds after launch. Officials believe the rocket exploded. (BBC) (Yonhap)
- In the first move of a possible major realignment of U.S. college sports, the Pacific-10 Conference announces that the University of Colorado, a current member of the Big 12 Conference, has accepted the Pac-10's invitation to join that conference. (ESPN)
- 15 large storage boxes containing manuscripts, notebooks and letters belonging to J. G. Ballard are acquired by the British Library. (BBC) (The Guardian) (The Independent)
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- Environmental themes will feature during this week's Shanghai Television Festival and the upcoming Shanghai International Film Festival, officials said at a press conference to mark World Ocean Day. (Shanghai Daily)
- The U.S. state of Georgia executes its 24th death row inmate Melbert Ford by lethal injection. (11Alive Atlanta Georgia)
- China announces that 3 residents of Dandong city in Liaoning province were shot dead and one injured in a China-North Korea border incident last week. (China Daily) (Chinese Tools) (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (People's Daily)
- The 2010 Millennium Technology Prize is awarded to Swiss solar innovator Michael Grätzel. (BBC)
- War in Afghanistan:
- Dutch general election of 2010:
- The results of the Philippine presidential election are certified and Noynoy Aquino and Jejomar Binay are proclaimed as President-elect and Vice President-elect at the Batasang Pambansa in a joint session of the Congress of the Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (ABS-CBN News)
- Dozens of workers in China are hurt during labour strikes, with at least 2,000 workers clashing with police in the city of Kunshan. (AFP) (Press TV) (China Daily)
- Around 60 unsuccessful Iraqi asylum applicants are forcibly and controversially deported to Baghdad from Britain, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. Amnesty International condemns the move as the deportees face violence and mutilation in that city. (Aljazeera)
- The United Nations Security Council imposes a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. (UN News Centre) (BBC) (Press TV) (Al Jazeera)
- Three men are arrested, two protesters are kicked and pushed downstairs and eggs are thrown during demonstrations as Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki hides under an umbrella while leaving the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin. (RTÉ) (The Washington Post) (FCNN)
- Kikaya Bin Karubi, the Congolese ambassador to the UK, says Les Resistants Combattants have said Saturday's arson attack on his London home, which destroyed several vehicles and damaged his house, was an act of retaliation for last week's death of leading human rights activist Floribert Chebeya. (BBC)
- Somalia:
- Middle East:
- The UK government brings forward new rules which make it compulsory for immigrants from outside the European Union, particularly South Asia, to understand the English language. (BBC)
- President Nicolas Sarkozy defends his plans to sell up to four French warships to Russia, despite concerns raised by his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili during talks taking place a few days before a visit to Paris of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (EU Observer) (eu-russiacentre)
- France closes its military bases in Senegal and removes 900 of its 1,200 troops based there. (BBC)
- The wife of Ratko Mladić is arrested in Belgrade. (Aljazeera)
- An Oxfam aid worker is kidnapped in Abéché, Chad. (BBC)
- The same-sex couple, who recently came to international attention when they were convicted of homosexuality under a British colonial law, tell Malawi's The Nation that they have separated and that one of them now lives with a woman. (BBC)
- A new in-depth genetic study on Jewish history is published in Nature: researchers analysed genetic samples from 14 international Jewish communities and 69 international non-Jewish communities. (BBC)
- Researchers find that many species of snakes are in decline. The causes are unknown.(BBC) (Biol. Lett.)
- Michael Jackson's estate makes $1 billion since his death. (Xinhua) (china.org) (Sina)
- Nelson Mandela's grandson says his grandfather plans to attend the 2010 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony in South Africa this week. (CNTV)
- The world's oldest leather shoe was found in Vayots Dzor, Armenia by a team of of international archeologists. (National Post)
- The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 in overtime to win the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals in six games. Blackhawks' captain Jonathan Toews is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as Most Valuable Player. (TSN)
- Barbara Kingsolver wins the Orange Prize for Fiction for her sixth novel, The Lacuna. (BBC) (The Guardian) (The Hindu) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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