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- Death toll in unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan rises to 275. (Central Asian News)
- Amnesty International says French authorities have not investigated claims of abuse and racism by the police force, including the death of one Arab man in police custody. (Aljazeera)
- 17 people are killed and 25 others injured when an overcrowded bus collided head-on with a speeding truck near Chenaki More, abount 30 km from Patna, India. (Thaindian)
- Algirdas Brazauskas, the first post-independence President of Lithuania, dies after a long struggle at the age of 77. (BBC) (France24)
- More than 10 Iraqi men forcefully deported from the United Kingdom more than a week ago are held in detention in a single room at Baghdad International Airport without access to proper beds, washing/toilet facilities or journalists. The United Nations and humans rights organizations call on countries to stop their practice of deporting asylum seekers to the area. (BBC)
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- President of Zambia Rupiah Banda says his country did not ask for health and road aid which has now been frozen by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the European Union before an upcoming election and says "We must not allow donors to feel they can interfere in the internal affairs of this country because it is a sovereign and independent state". (Reuters Africa)
- Voters in Somaliland take part in a presidential election. (Arab News) (AP) (The New York Times) (Al Jazeera)
- Iranian lawmakers protesting at Israel's blockade of Gaza say they will travel to the area on an aid ship from Lebanon. (Reuters Africa)
- The Vatican's Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone launches another attack on Belgian police participating in raids against child sex abuse, calling the detention of priests "serious and unbelievable" and that "there are no precedents, not even under the old communist regimes". Police in Leuven seized nearly 500 files and a computer during a raid. (BBC)
- Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Taiwan against a trade agreement with China to be signed on Tuesday. (BBC) (Focus Taiwan News Channel) (Radio Television Hong Kong)
- Several thousand Egyptians, joined by opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, protest systematic use of torture by authorities in the largest demonstration yet resulting from the alleged fatal beating to death of Khaled Said by police. (Arab News)
- Israel allegedly confiscates seven oxygen machines en route to hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza as they "came under the category of possible use for non-medical purposes". The Palestinian Ministry of Health asks for the Norwegian Development Agency that donated them to assist in calling for their return. (Haaretz)
- Two Palestinians are killed in an Israeli retaliatory strike on two underground tunnels from the Gaza Strip to Israel. (Arab News) (The Washington Post)
- Thousands of Iranians in Paris ask the UN to tighten its sanctions on Iran. (YnetNews) (Euronews)
- Four people are killed and five wounded in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir's Sopore area. (CNN)
- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva cancels his trip to Canada due to the widespread floods. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- The ruling Workers' Party of Korea in North Korea announces that it will convene a meeting in September to elect new leaders. (Arirang News) (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- Alleged Agrigento mafia boss Giuseppe Falsone is arrested in Marseille in the south of France after spending 10 years on the run. (BBC)
- Four American service personnel are killed in Afghanistan. (CNN)
- Israel's pledge to ease its blockade on Gaza has little effect on factories. (The Independent)
- Media conglomerate News Corporation sells spirituality website Beliefnet to an investment group. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, who has a long history of heart problems, is hospitalized. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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- Record temperatures contribute to three deaths in Maryland. (Baltimore Sun)
- At least 24 people are killed and 50 people injured after an overcrowded bus crashes into a truck in the Patna district of Bihar state in India. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- 13 people have died of dengue fever in Honduras in 2010 as 10,200 others were hit by the disease, the Honduran Health Ministry said. (Xinhua)
- Millions of protesters take to the streets in Rome, Naples, Milan and other Italian cities to protest their government's austerity measures which cut funds and affects public sector salaries and to test Silvio Berlusconi. (Aljazeera)
- Christopher Coke, sent to United States territory by Jamaica, pleads not guilty to United States charges of drug smuggling at a federal court in New York and, in his first public comments since August, says he took the decision to be extradited "in the best interest of my family, the community of western Kingston and in particular the people of Tivoli Gardens and above all Jamaica". (Aljazeera)
- Evangelical preacher Merrick "Al" Miller is charged with "harbouring a fugitive" and "perverting the course of justice", though he says Coke was on the verge of turning himself into authorities. (Jamaica Gleaner)
- The Constitutional Court of Romania rules that government budget plans are "unconstitutional"; this decision cannot be appealed. Dozens of people trying to request an audience with President Traian Băsescu at his palace are beaten back by riot police. (France24) (BBC) (Deutsche Welle) (Reuters)
- Commemorations are held in South Korea to mark the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. (Yonhap) (BBC) (The Guardian)
- Rwandan journalist Jean Leonard Rugambage, acting editor of Umuvugizi, is shot dead by two men in front of his house in Kigali. Rugambage's death shocks journalists in the country; the paper's exiled chief editor says the government is responsible. (BBC) (The Guardian) (The Independent) (Reuters Africa)
- The Vatican expresses its "astonishment" and "indignation" at the "violation of the graves of the Cardinals Jozef-Ernest Van Roey and Leon-Joseph Suenens" by Belgian police making holes in the crypt at Mechelen Cathedral during a child sex abuse search. (Aljazeera) (BBC) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit:
- Security forces in Yemen clash with suspected Al-Qaeda members in Aden during investigations into a bombing of a government compound last week. (Al Jazeera)
- Iris Robinson is interviewed in London as part of a police investigation. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
- In response to the mortars fired into Israel that hit a government building, Israeli warplanes bomb smuggling tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, with one person being wounded in an air attack in Rafah. (CNN)] (AFP via Google) (Press TV)
- President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister of Britain David Cameron meet and agree to work to renew ties stained by the refusal of both men to hand over men the other man wants. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Five people are killed and one is seriously wounded after an attack at a wedding party in Ghrab hamlet in Algeria's Tébessa Province. (Hindustan Times) (IOL) (Reuters Africa)
- Three Indonesian celebrities - pop star Nazril "Ariel" Irham, TV presenter Luna Maya and soapstar Cut Tari - are allegedly involved in a celebrity sex tape; Nazril "Ariel" Irham is charged, prompting anger and calls for punishment from some conservative groups in the country. (BBC)
- China jails Tibetan environmentalist Karma Samdrup on charges of stealing from tombs. (BBC) (Reuters Africa) (The Guardian)
- Statues of 4 Chinese leaders, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, are unveiled in Sichuan. (Global Times)
- A statue of Joseph Stalin is discreetly removed overnight from the central square of his hometown of Gori in Georgia. (Xinhua) (BBC) (The Guardian)
- The 36th G8 summit opens in Huntsville, Ontario and the 4th G20 summit is held in Toronto, Canada.
- British–Irish Council:
- Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, whose aim it is to create the most precise 3D map of Earth's surface, obtains its first images. (BBC)
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- One person died and another two were injured when a shell leftover from the Vietnam War exploded in the central province of Quang Ngai. (Thanhnien News)
- Death Toll in Brazilian Storms Rises to 46 in Brazil's Alagoas and Pernambuco states. (Xinhua)
- A parcel bomb delivered to the public order ministry in Athens, addressed to counter-terrorism minister Michalis Chrysohoidis, is opened by an aide, instantly killing him; Chrysohoidis is unhurt. Prime Minister George Papandreou labels it a terrorist attack. (BBC) (Aljazeera) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian)
- Belgian authorities raid their country's Catholic Church HQ during an investigation into child sexual abuse as rumours circulate about a cover-up. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Aljazeera) (The New York Times) (RTÉ) (The Age)
- Rescue workers continue the search for hundreds of people who have disappeared during floods in Brazil. (Aljazeera)
- At least twelve people are killed, and 17 more people are injured, in a train accident in Castelldefels, near Barcelona. (El País) (BBC News)
- A Knesset parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe, led by Yohanan Plesner, seeks to block a key vote intent on establishing an international probe into the Gaza flotilla raid. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd steps down after his leadership is contested following considerable drops in popularity in polls in recent months. Julia Gillard becomes Australia's first female Prime Minister. (SMH)
- Several people are killed during suicide attacks and bombings across Iraq. (Aljazeera)
- Public sector workers strike in their millions across France. (The Age) (Aljazeera) (BBC) (The Independent) (RTÉ)
- President Hu Jintao of China arrives in Ottawa on a three-day state visit to Canada. The two countries sign a tourism agreement. (Global Times)
- Five American men are jailed for 10 years in Pakistan after being arrested in possession of maps of sensitive locations. The men deny they have links to militants and say they are charity workers. The verdict is announced inside a prison in the presence of American diplomats. (BBC) (Xinhua) (Aljazeera) (The Guardian)
- Organisers of a fresh aid flotilla to Gaza cancel the event due to what they describe as "Israeli threats", while the United States Department of State issues a statement calling aid flotillas to Gaza "irresponsible". (Haaretz) (Ynetnews)
- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon states as "illegal and unhelpful" the plan to demolish Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem to make way for a tourist park. (BBC)
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East commissioner-general Filippo Grandi questions the fine print of Israel's promise to ease its blockade on Gaza, citing parts which are unclear and saying it is "urgent, because the conditions are very bad on the ground". (Daily Times)
- Hooded gunmen kill 4 commuters in Philippines. (CBS)
- Burundi's defence minister Germain Niyoyankana says he hopes opposition leader Agathon Rwasa has not gone into hiding as this is banned. Rwasa, an ex-rebel chief, signed a peace deal in 2009. A spokesman says he has only gone on holiday for 15 days. (BBC)
- During a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Austria's Chancellor Werner Faymann calls on him to lift the Gaza Strip embargo. (Austrian Independent)
- Somaliland is set to go to the polls with its president facing a challenge to be reelected. (Aljazeera)
- Russia's natural gas export monopoly Gazprom announces that it will restart gas supply to Belarus in full following payment of the debt. (Reuters)
- Bridgeport, Connecticut in the United States is put under a state of emergency when hurricane force winds from a strong storm went through causing injuries and severe damage including the collapse of a multi-story building. (CNN)(CTPost)
- Sri Lanka announces that a United Nations panel investigating human rights abuses will not be allowed to enter the country. (BBC) (Times of India)
- China announces it has broken up what it describes as a terrorist ring in Xinjiang in the west of the country. (China Daily) (AP) (Al Jazeera)
- Slovakia defeat defending champion Italy by a 3-2 score; following France's elimination on Tuesday, this marks the first time in World Cup history that both previous finalists fail to progress beyond the first round of play. (BBC News)
- American John Isner defeats Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7), 6-7 (3), 70-68, in the longest match in tennis history, finally advancing from the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles tournament. The match took over 11 hours, spanning three days. (ESPN)
- Writer Neil Gaiman wins the Cilip Carnegie Medal for The Graveyard Book. (BBC)
- Four specimens of Anogramma ascensionis, a plant native to Ascension Island and presumed extinct for 60 years, are discovered alive and well in Kew. (BBC)
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- The death toll in yesterday's train crash in the Republic of the Congo rises to 76. (TVNZ) (Aljazeera)
- Anthrax kills 30 hippopotamuses in Uganda. (The Straits Times)
- 9 Iraqis are killed in bombings, including two leaders of U.S. government-backed Sunni militants. (TIME)
- An Indian colonel dies in Kashmir for the first time in three years. (The Times of India) (The News International) (BBC) (Press TV)
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- General Stanley A. McChrystal magazine remarks controversy:
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Kenya permits prisoners to vote in a referendum on a new constitution in a landmark court ruling. (BBC) (Daily Nation) (KBC)
- Strikes in China which began on 21st of June have shut down Toyota and Honda plants there. "The BBC's China editor Shirong Chen says the government has tolerated strikes at foreign-owned plants, which are obliged to respect workers' rights, but maintains strict control at Chinese-owned factories for fear of widespread social unrest." (BBC)
- 27 people are questioned about a bomb attack which killed five people in Istanbul. (The Straits Times) (Reuters)
- 1 person is killed when a crane crashes at Chennai International Airport, Chennai, India. (India Times)
- The International Whaling Commission does not reach agreement on curbing whaling by Japan, Norway and Iceland in a meeting in Agadir, Morocco. (AP via San Jose Mercury News)
- The Palace of Monaco announces the engagement of Albert II, Prince of Monaco to South African native and Olympian swimmer Charlene Wittstock. (AP)
- BP chief executive Tony Hayward hands over responsibility for cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to senior executive Bob Dudley "effective immediately". (AFP via the Sydney Morning Herald)
- 2 American service members die following bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan. (CBS)
- 2 Australians are injured after shooting each other in the buttocks and legs. (The Straits Times)
- A Toronto man is charged with possessing explosives alleged to be part of a plot to bomb the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit in Canada. (AFP via Google News)
- An earthquake occurrs 56 kilometres north-northeast of Ottawa, registering a 5.0 on the Richter scale. Slight damage was reported near the epicenter, and the tremor was felt in Sudbury, Windsor, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Toronto, Milwaukee, Northern Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York State. (CBC) (Ottawa Sun) (Ottawa Citizen)
- Golfer Graeme McDowell returns home to celebrations after becoming the first European to win the U.S. Open since 1970. (The Irish Times) (The Belfast Telegraph) (BBC)
- Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships becomes the longest match in Association of Tennis Professionals history, and is adjourned after 9 hours. (The Guardian)
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- At least 60 people are killed and hundreds disappear after a derailed train plunges into a ravine in the Republic of the Congo. The accident happened after the train left the coastal town of Pointe-Noire on the Chemin de Fer Congo Ocean (CFCO) line to the capital Brazzaville. (TVNZ) (DNA) (Dawn) (Sky News)
- The death toll from floods and mudslides reaches at least 31 people in Alagoas and Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil. (CBS)
- Red Sea oil spill disaster:
- The death toll from unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan riots reaches 251. (itar-tass)
- War crimes charges are formally requested against 12 Belgian government officials and military officers in connection with the assassination of Congo's first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, as historians agree on a high-level Belgian conspiracy, with Western-backed dictator Mobutu Sese Seko succeeding Lumumba until he was overthrown in 1997. (AP) (AFP) (Reuters) (Taiwan News)
- The United States investigates itself to see if it is accidentally financing the Taliban in Afghanistan with $4 million per week in U.S. taxpayers' money. (Aljazeera) (BBC) (CNN)
- Israel asks the United Nations to suspend attempts to organise an international inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid, with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak saying "some organisation, probably backed by a terror organisation, (is) once again trying to send a vessel into Gaza." (BBC)
- General Stanley A. McChrystal, the top United States commander in Afghanistan, apologises for an article in Rolling Stone magazine in which he criticised senior members of the Obama administration. McChrystal is later summoned to Washington, D.C. for talks with Obama. (The Los Angeles Times) (BBC)
- Christopher Coke walks into a police station on the outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica and is detained, following search efforts which killed more than 70 people last month. The United States accuses him of being the Shower Posse leader, which it alleges operates an international drugs and guns network. (BBC)
- An expert panel is appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to investigate whether war crimes were committed during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War. (Reuters) (CNN) (BBC)
- During a two-day visit to Ghana, President of Angola José Eduardo dos Santos visits Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra among other engagements. (Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) (Angola Press)
- Five people are killed and 12 injured in a bus bomb in Istanbul, Turkey. Kurdish rebels later claim responsibility for the attack. (Anatolia News Agency) (Reuters) (Xinhua)
- Two rival Nigerian lawmakers in the National Assembly are injured, with one sustaining a broken arm. (BBC)
- The American Samoa Constitutional Convention, the first to be held since 1986, opens in Pago Pago. (Radio New Zealand International)
- United States federal judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman issues a preliminary injunction blocking a six month moratorium on deep water offshore drilling. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- In the United Kingdom, Chancellor George Osborne presents the coalition government's emergency budget statement to the House of Commons. (BBC)
- Nikki Haley wins the Republican Party primary to be the Republican candidate in the South Carolina gubernatorial election in the United States. (Washington Post)
- One person is killed and 10 injured after a former worker at a Mazda factory in Japan drives his car at colleagues. (Kyodo) (BBC) (AFP)
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- Mara gang members in El Salvador attack a bus on the outskirts of San Salvador, shooting at it before dousing it with gasoline and lighting it on fire, killing 14 and injuring 16. Gang members open fire on another bus shortly afterward, killing another 2 people. (Yahoo! News) (Aljazeera)
- Iraq's electricity minister Karim Waheed offers his resignation on live television as "Iraqis are not capable of being patient in their suffering". Two people are shot dead by armed forces while protesting over lack of electricity generation blamed by Waheed on lack of funding. (BBC)
- The death toll in Colombia's mine blast reaches 70, as 4 more charred corpses are retrieved. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- At least 46 people are killed and dozens more trapped after a mine blast in Henan, central China. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (China Daily)
- Major aid agencies Oxfam and Save the Children both launch $10 million (£6.7 million) appeals for Niger where drought is common at the moment and half the country has no food. (BBC) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly, cuts 15% of Belarus' gas supplies over alleged debt, and threatens to gradually cut up to 85% of Belarus' gas supplies if the debt remains unpaid. (Aljazeera) (BBC)
- Juan Manuel Santos wins convincingly in the final round of the Colombian presidential election. (BBC)
- Bronisław Komorowski and Jarosław Kaczyński face each other on 4 July after Sunday's inconclusive vote in Polish presidential election, 2010. (Aljazeera)
- An American man pleads guilty to charges of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt. (AP via Google News)
- Search teams find the wreckage of a CASA C-212 Aviocar private plane carrying senior Australian mining executives including Ken Talbot in the jungle of the Republic of the Congo. (Reuters via News Daily)
- Iran bans two International Atomic Energy Agency weapons inspectors from entering the country claiming they had leaked false information about Iran's nuclear program. (Sky News)
- Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping meets with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on an official trip to Canberra. The two countries sign agreements valued at over A$10 billion. (The Australian)
- 8 people die and 10 people are wounded in a suicide attack in the northern city of Shirqat of Iraq. (TRT)
- The Washington Post reports that Gizab villagers in Afghanistan overturned their local Taliban movement during April, with some members putting down their weapons and being welcomed back into their local community. The United States did not hear of this before now as it happened in a remote part of the country ignored by the military. (The Washington Post)
- Three Australian soldiers and a United States army soldier are killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan with nine NATO casualties overall. (The Australian) (AFP via Google News)
- The northernmost radiation detection station of the South Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety claims to have detected an eightfold increase in the radioactive substance xenon. (AP) (Chosun Ilbo)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- The Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy Magazine releases its 2010 index of so-called "failed states", ranking 177 countries by what it sees as those most at risk of failure; Foreign Policy claims state failure "is a chronic condition". (Aljazeera)
- Six people are arrested in South Africa over the shooting of Rwandan dissident Lt Gen Nyamwasa. (BBC)
- Bangladesh authorities indefinitely shut down Dhaka's University of Engineering and Technology due to a student rampage which injures four people because of 2010 FIFA World Cup fever. (BBC)
- The World Health Organisation creates a data base on the use of child medicines. (AP via The Guardian)
- The Communications Commission of Kenya embarks on a compulsory mobile phone registration initiative as part of the country's crime reduction policy; numbers remaining unregistered by the end of July are to be disconnected. (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation) (Daily Nation) (BBC) (TMC Net)
- A carved brick sculpture intended as a Bloody Sunday (1972) memorial is vandalised prior to completion in Derry's Bogside area. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Belfast Telegraph)
- A tour of North America by Simon & Garfunkel is "postponed indefinitely" as Art Garfunkel develops vocal cord paresis; he is expected to recover. (BBC)
- Hyksos capital Avaris is believed to have been located via radar imaging by a group of Austrian archaeologists in Tel al-Dabaa. (BBC) (IOL) (News24.com)
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