June 1, 2009 (2009-06-01 ) (Monday)
June 2, 2009 (2009-06-02 ) (Tuesday)
June 3, 2009 (2009-06-03 ) (Wednesday)
June 4, 2009 (2009-06-04 ) (Thursday)
United Kingdom
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
James Purnell announces his resignation and requests that
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown also resign.
(Guardian)
Two
laptop
computers that contain personal information on
Northern Ireland 's 30,000
civil servants are stolen from the
Department of Finance and Personnel in
Belfast .
(RTÉ)
England conducts
local elections in 27
county councils and five
unitary authorities .
(Telegraph )
The
President of the United States ,
Barack Obama ,
addresses the
Muslim world in
Cairo ,
Egypt .
(BBC)
(Washington Post )
The
European Union 's
parliamentary
election commences in the
Netherlands and
United Kingdom .
(Europarl)
(RTÉ)
Irish
Minister for Education and Science
Batt O'Keeffe apologises for the postponement of a
Leaving Certificate Examination .
(RTÉ)
(Irish Independent )
Australian
Minister for Defense
Joel Fitzgibbon resigns.
(BBC)
Linguistic analysis confirms that
American
astronaut
Neil Armstrong did not say the
article "a" in the
phrase "one small step for a man" when he
walked on the
Moon on July 20, 1969.
(BBC)
150,000 people assemble in
Hong Kong ,
China , to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the
massacre in
Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.
(BBC)
Two hundred thousand people attend the
funeral of
Dera Sach Khand leader Sant Ramanand Dass in
Jalandhar ,
Punjab ,
India .
(BBC)
(Times of India )
June 5, 2009 (2009-06-05 ) (Friday)
Two thousand new private color photographs of
Adolf Hitler are published.
(Telegraph )
(Daily News )
The
European Union 's
parliamentary
election continues in the
Czech Republic and
Ireland .
(Europarl)
Ireland conducts
local elections and two
by-elections in
Dublin Central and
Dublin South .
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
American economist
Paul Krugman says that the
Irish economy may not recover from the
2008–09 financial crisis until 2014.
(RTÉ)
The
Prime Minister of Italy
Silvio Berlusconi threatens to sue the
Spanish newspaper
El País for publishing
indecent photographs of people at his villa in
Sardinia .
(BBC)
Ireland 's rate of
unemployment reaches 11.8%.
(RTÉ)
Pope
Benedict XVI is briefed on
Ireland 's
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse 's public report.
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
A
bus fire kills at least 24 people in
Chengdu ,
Sichuan ,
China .
(Reuters via News Limited)
Brazil 's
Air Force confirms that no debris has been recovered from
Air France
Flight 447 .
(Sky News)
Presidential-election candidate
Baciro Dabó and former
Defense Minister
Helder Proenca are accused of plotting a
coup d'état and killed by
Guinea-Bissau 's
government .
(BBC)
(AFP)
A bomb kills nine people in a café in
Baghdad ,
Iraq .
(BBC)
Philippe Gomès is
elected
President of
New Caledonia .
(RNZI)
A
landslide buries approximately 59 people and kills at least two others in
Chongqing ,
China .
(BBC)
A
suicide attack
kills at least 38 people at a
mosque in
Upper Dir District ,
Pakistan .
(BBC)
Former
United States
State Department employee
Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, are arrested and charged with
spying for
Cuba 's
government .
(CNN)
David Bain , after an extensive three-month
retrial , is found not guilty of
murdering five family members in
Dunedin ,
New Zealand on 20 June 1994.
(TVNZ)
United Kingdom
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
shuffles the
Cabinet :
(RTÉ)
June 6, 2009 (2009-06-06 ) (Saturday)
The
European Union 's
parliamentary
election continues in
Cyprus ,
Italy ,
Latvia ,
Malta ,
Slovakia , the
Czech Republic , and
France 's
overseas departments and territories .
(Europarl)
The
ruling party
Fianna Fáil endures significant losses in
Ireland 's
local elections and
parliamentary
by-elections in
Dublin Central and
Dublin South .
(AFP)
(BBC)
(The Times)
The
Conservative Party gains seven
county councils , the
Liberal Democrats lose one, and the
Labour Party loses four during the
United Kingdom 's
local elections .
(BBC)
Twenty-six people are killed during and 100 others remain missing after a
landslide near
Chongqing ,
China .
(BBC)
Seventy-six people
die at
Harmony Gold 's
mine in
Free State ,
South Africa .
(BBC)
A
fire at a
day-care center kills at least 40 people in
Hermosillo ,
Mexico .
(BBC)
(Fox)
(RTÉ)
Fifty-two people die during
combat between
Peru 's
Army and
indigenous peoples in the
Amazon Rainforest .
(Reuters)
At least 36 people die during
combat between the
Transitional Federal Government and
Islamist
militants in Webho,
Somalia .
(BBC)
Two male bodies and several luggage items are recovered from
Air France
Flight 447 in the
Atlantic Ocean .
(BBC)
The
Philippines '
Army
kill 30
Moro Islamic Liberation Front members and capture a "bomb factory" on
Mindanao .
(BBC)
Former
West Berlin
police officer
Karl-Heinz Kurras is revealed to have
spied for
East Germany 's
Stasi .
(BBC)
Harvard University discovers a
molecular mechanism that regulates
coagulation .
(BBC)
The
American Cemetery and Memorial honors
World War II
veterans who
landed at
Normandy ,
France , in
1944 .
(CNN)
The
International Labour Organization requests that
Burma 's
government
amend a
clause in its
Constitution that may justify
forced labor .
(AFP)
Palm, Inc. launches its new
Palm Pre
smartphone .
(Reuters)
June 7, 2009 (2009-06-07 ) (Sunday)
The
European Union 's
parliamentary
election concludes in
Austria ,
Belgium ,
Bulgaria ,
Denmark ,
Estonia ,
Finland ,
France ,
Germany ,
Greece ,
Hungary ,
Italy ,
Lithuania ,
Luxembourg ,
Poland ,
Portugal ,
Romania ,
Slovenia ,
Spain , and
Sweden .
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Air France
Flight 447 :
Bolivia 's
government seeks two
Irish
passport-holders who are allegedly connected to the attempted
assassination of
President
Evo Morales in
April .
(Times )
A seven-day
gay pride
festival is held for the first time in
Shanghai ,
China .
(BBC)
The
United States
Supreme Court is
requested to block
Italian
automaker
Fiat 's
purchase of
Chrysler .
(BBC)
Former
Cuban
President
Fidel Castro dismisses allegations that ex-
U.S.
State Department employee
Kendall Myers
spied for his country.
(ABC)
(BBC)
(Times of India )
Former
United Kingdom
Cabinet
Ministers
Hazel Blears ,
James Purnell ,
John Hutton , and
Caroline Flint coordinated their resignations to compel
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown to also resign.
(Independent )
Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso is granted
honorary citizenship in
Paris ,
France .
(AFP)
Radio Shabelle director Moqtar Mohamed Hirabe is
killed in
Mogadishu ,
Somalia .
(BBC)
Billy Elliot the Musical wins
Best Musical and
God of Carnage wins
Best Play at the
63rd
Tony Awards .
(AP via Google News)
June 8, 2009 (2009-06-08 ) (Monday)
At least 18 factory workers are killed when their bus collides with a truck in the
Nile Delta ,
Egypt .
(Irish Examiner )
Lloyds Banking Group repay
£ 2.56 billion to
Her Majesty's Government to compensate for partial
nationalisation on
19 January 2009 .
(Times )
The
Supreme Court of the United States
stays the sale of
Chrysler to
Fiat in
Indiana State Police Pension Trust v. Chrysler .
(Bloomberg)
Four men, including
Real Irish Republican Army members
Michael McKevitt and
Colm Murphy , are declared responsible for the
bombing of
Omagh ,
County Tyrone ,
Northern Ireland , in
1998 .
(Reuters)
(RTÉ)
The
Minister of State for Farming and the Environment ,
Jane Kennedy , announces her resignation from the
Government of the United Kingdom .
(BBC)
Pope
Benedict XVI is reportedly "visibly upset" after hearing the findings of
Ireland 's
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse .
(RTÉ)
Gabonese
President
Omar Bongo dies of a
heart attack at age 73.
(BBC)
Two
American journalists are
found guilty of illegally entering
North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of
penal labour .
(Sky News)
North Korea restricts access to the
Sea of Japan , near
Wonsan , from June 10–30, possibly indicating future
missile testing .
(AFP via News Limited)
Mayor
Ray Nagin of
New Orleans ,
Louisiana , is
quarantined in
Shanghai ,
China , after a passenger on his flight from the
United States was diagnosed with
A(H1N1)
influenza .
(BBC)
European Union 's
parliamentary
elections :
In a
referendum held alongside European Parliament elections, voters in
Denmark agreed to change their
Acts of Succession to eliminate
male preference in their
line of succession .
(AAP via TV New Zealand)
In a
legislative election held alongside European Parliament elections, the
Christian Social People's Party increase their
plurality in
Luxembourg 's
Chamber of Deputies .
(AFP via NASDAQ)
The third
acid attack since
December 2008 occurs in
Mong Kok ,
Hong Kong .
(The Standard )
Apple Inc. debuts the third generation of its
iPhone line, iPhone 3GS at
Worldwide Developers Conference 2009.
(Apple website)
June 9, 2009 (2009-06-09 ) (Tuesday)
Romania 's newly elected right-wing
Greater Romania Party
MEP
George "Gigi" Becali is ordered by court not to leave the country.
(BBC)
Three workers are missing after an explosion at a
ConAgra Foods plant in
Garner ,
North Carolina ,
United States .
(CNN)
2009 swine flu outbreak :
World Health Organisation Director-General
Margaret Chan believes "on the surface of it" that a
pandemic has been reached. She also said that "once I get indisputable evidence, I will make the announcement," and will meet with governments on Wednesday regarding reports about the outbreak.
(Associated Press via Breitbart.com)
Indians in Australia allege more
attacks against them in
Sydney .
(BBC)
Dáil Éireann debates a
motion of no confidence against the
Government of Ireland as
George Lee and
Maureen O'Sullivan make their debuts in the
30th Dáil .
(RTÉ)
Two
Democrats cross party lines and join
Republicans to swing control of the
Senate of the U.S. state of
New York to the Republican Party.
(WCBS New York)
Royal Dutch Shell is to pay out $15.5m (£9.7m) in a legal settlement over its alleged complicity in the 1995 execution of several
Nigerian environmental activists, including author
Ken Saro-Wiwa , in
Nigeria in
1995 .
(RTÉ)
(Sky News)
Nick Griffin , the leader of the
British National Party , is pelted with eggs by protestors and forced to abandon a press conference.
(BBC)
Lloyds Banking Group announce the closure of all
Cheltenham & Gloucester branches in the UK and the loss of about 1,660 jobs.
(BBC)
The trial of
William Jefferson , a former member of the
U.S. House of Representatives , on charges of
bribery and
racketeering gets underway.
(Washington Post)
The chairman of
Anglo Irish Bank
discloses to the
Oireachtas
Committee on Finance and Public Service that some senior staff at the bank have impaired loans to the bank.
(RTÉ)
A study suggests that the
HIV prevalence rate in
South Africa has leveled off at 10.9% and it could be falling in the under-19 age group.
(BBC)
An
explosion kills 11 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in
Peshawar ,
Pakistan .
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
A notebook of
Pablo Picasso sketches worth several million
euro is discovered stolen from the
Musée Picasso in
Paris .
(The Irish Times )
June 10, 2009 (2009-06-10 ) (Wednesday)
The leadership of the
30th
Dáil Éireann in
Ireland , representing
Fianna Fáil and the
Irish Green Party , win a
motion of confidence .
(RTÉ)
The
European Transport Safety Council criticises
Ireland 's lack of speed cameras.
(RTÉ)
At least two people
are shot at the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington D.C. , with an elderly
white supremacist as the main suspect.
(CNN)
Thousands of people demonstrate in solidarity with victims of child abuse in
Dublin as hundreds of victims are invited to meet
Irish
President
Mary McAleese .
(RTÉ)
(Irish Independent )
Setanta Sports announce it has stopped taking on new subscriptions in order to "secure the future of the business".
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Air France Flight 447
A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in the town of
Bathaa in the southern Iraqi province of
Dhiqar , killing up to 35 persons and injuring dozens of others.
(Huffington Post )
Massive
demonstrations are held in various places in the
Philippines against the passage of the
Constituent Assembly to amend
the Constitution .
(Philippine Daily Inquirer )
A two-day
strike by the
United Kingdom
National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers disrupts train services in
London .
(the Times )
Russia begins destroying 6,000 tons of
nerve gas in
Shchuchye, Kurgan Oblast .
(Sky News)
The
United Nations Security Council , along with
Japan and
South Korea , agrees a draft
resolution following
North Korea 's recent nuclear and missile tests.
(BBC)
Palau agrees to accept up to 17
Chinese
Uighurs from
Guantanamo Bay detention camp .
(Bloomberg)
The
Thai
army is sent to reinforce positions along Thailand's border with
Burma after an influx of
Karen refugees following a
Burmese army
offensive in
Karen state .
(BBC)
Rose Francine Rogombé is sworn in as acting head of state in
Gabon , following the death of
Omar Bongo Ondimba .
(AFP)
Nine miners die and four are still missing after an accident at a coal mine in
Donetsk ,
Ukraine .
(BBC)
Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi arrives in
Rome on his first visit to
Italy , Libya's former colonial ruler and now its biggest trading partner, wearing a photograph of
Omar Mukhtar .
(BBC)
Google Inc. announced that it has received notice from the
United States Department of Justice that
antitrust investigators are studying its settlement with publishers designed to put millions of books online consistent with the property rights of authors.
(Reuters)
June 11, 2009 (2009-06-11 ) (Thursday)
Some 2,000 wild
Canadian geese are to be killed around
New York's main
airports to reduce the numbers of the
birds that brought down
US Airways Flight 1549 in January.
(The New York Times )
10,000
Gabonese watch the body of
President
Omar Bongo arrive back home from
Spain .
(BBC)
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
A
Bosnian television station shows what it says is recent video footage of
genocide suspect and
Bosnian war commander General
Ratko Mladić in
Serbia .
(The Guardian )
Swedish sports car maker
Koenigsegg is to buy
Saab Automobile from
General Motors with support from
Norwegian investors.
(Forbes)
Dáil Éireann debates the findings of the
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse , delayed by the
motion of no confidence in the
Irish Government opened by
Fine Gael .
(RTÉ)
Ireland 's
Garda Commissioner sends two
Garda forensic specialists to
Brazil to assist in the identification of bodies from
Air France
Flight 447 .
(RTÉ)
The
World Health Organization declares the
current outbreak of
H1N1 to be a “pandemic”, the first since the
1968 Hong Kong flu .
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Italian students protest
Libyan leader
Muammar al-Gaddafi 's visit to the country.
(BBC)
RTÉ ,
Ireland 's public service broadcaster, denies it is facing bankruptcy.
(RTÉ)
Four
Chinese
Uighurs from the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp are resettled in
Bermuda .
(The Times )
Campaigning in
Iran 's
presidential election ends after three weeks of mass rallies and political rhetoric.
(BBC)
The
President of France ,
Nicolas Sarkozy , says he will travel to
Ireland to assist the passing of
the forthcoming
Treaty of Lisbon referendum at a joint news conference with the
Chancellor of Germany ,
Angela Merkel , in
Paris .
(RTÉ)
Kumari Selja ,
India 's tourism minister, calls off a visit to
Australia following
attacks on Indian students in the country.
(BBC)
The
U.S. Supreme Court denies a bail request by
Conrad Black , a member of the British
House of Lords who remains in a federal prison in
Florida .
Egyptian Culture Minister
Farouk Hosni announces that the ministry will publish
Arabic translations of novels by
Israeli writers
Amos Oz and
David Grossman .
(BBC)
Xu Zongheng , the mayor of
Shenzhen , southern
China , is dismissed for "disciplinary offences" after being questioned on corruption allegations.
(BBC)
For the first time ever,
Brazil offers
US$ 10 billion in financing to the
International Monetary Fund to help improve the availability of credit in developing countries.
(BBC)
Ferrero SpA is cleared of allegations of fraud relating to the supply of
hazelnuts .
(BBC)
(The Times )
June 12, 2009 (2009-06-12 ) (Friday)
June 13, 2009 (2009-06-13 ) (Saturday)
June 14, 2009 (2009-06-14 ) (Sunday)
June 15, 2009 (2009-06-15 ) (Monday)
June 16, 2009 (2009-06-16 ) (Tuesday)
June 17, 2009 (2009-06-17 ) (Wednesday)
June 18, 2009 (2009-06-18 ) (Thursday)
North Korea considers launching a missile towards
Hawaii .
(BBC)
An
Atlas V rocket launches the
LRO and
LCROSS spacecraft to
explore the
Moon .
(BBC)
Continental Flight 61, a
Boeing 777 containing 247 passengers flying from
Brussels ,
Belgium , to
Newark, New Jersey ,
United States , lands safely at
Newark Liberty International Airport , after the 61-year-old
pilot died mid-flight.
(WCBS)
2009 Iranian election protests :
Seven
Gambian journalists are charged with seditious publication for reprinting a press union statement criticising
President
Yahya Jammeh .
(IOL)
Canada 's annual seal hunt ends with lower than expected totals.
(BBC)
Another attack occurs on
Romanians in
Belfast , on this occasion against a family in the east of the city.
(BBC)
Chancellor
Alistair Darling states there is "growing evidence" that government measures have stabilised the
British banking system and economy.
(Sky News)
The
expense claims of
British
Members of Parliament are published online.
(The Times )
(BBC)
The
High Court rules that
Suzanne Breen , an editor of the
Sunday Tribune , need not hand over her notes on the
Real IRA to
police as it would endanger her life.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the Medina Hotel in
Beledweyne ,
Somalia , killing 10 people. Among the dead is
Omar Hashi Aden , Somalia's Security Minister.
(BBC)
Several
Al-Qaeda militants are killed by a
Malian
army offensive near the
Algerian border.
(Taipei Times )
Islamic militants allied to Al-Qaeda launch
an attack on a convoy escorting
Chinese workers in Mansoura,
Algeria , killing 24 policemen.
(Irish Times )
(BBC)
Loyalist paramilitary organisations in
Northern Ireland begin to decommission their weapons.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Jon Bon Jovi and
Richie Sambora of rock band
Bon Jovi are inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony in
New York .
(BBC)
(CBC)
South Africa receives its
first case of
swine flu via the
United States .
(BBC)
June 19, 2009 (2009-06-19 ) (Friday)
Iran
As part of an
ongoing row between
FOTA and the
FIA , eight teams declare that they will leave
Formula One and set up a new championship for the 2010 season.
(BBC)
Attacks on
Romanians in
Belfast
Swine flu is confirmed in
Ethiopia and
Slovenia .
(The Irish Times )
Scotland Yard investigates the expenses of five Labour MPs in
Britain .
(Irish Independent )
Gambian opposition leader and journalist for the
Foroyaa newspaper,
Halifa Sallah , is arrested.
(IOL)
The
U.S. begins deploying
missile interceptors and
radar to defend
Hawaii from a
North Korean long-range
rocket .
(The New York Times )
(AFP)
Ireland 's
Taoiseach
Brian Cowen secures binding concessions in
EU talks on the
Lisbon Treaty .
(BBC)
Allen Stanford , the chairman of
Stanford Financial Group , is arrested after allegations of fraud.
(BBC)
Protests take place at
Burma 's
embassies worldwide on occasion of
Aung San Suu Kyi 's 64th birthday.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
Air France is to offer compensation to the families of victims of the
Flight 447 disaster.
(Reuters)
(Sky News)
A bomb explodes near
Bilbao in the
Basque region of
Spain , killing one policeman.
(AP)
(RTÉ)
Pakistan
Defence Minister
Ahmad Mukhtar says the
military offensive in the
Swat valley is nearing its end.
(Sindh Today ) [
permanent dead link ]
The
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta claims to have blown up another oil pipeline in the
Niger Delta region of southern
Nigeria .
(Xinhua)
Henry Allingham , 113, one of the
UK 's last two
World War I veterans, becomes the world's oldest man following the death of
Tomoji Tanabe .
(BBC)
The head of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ,
Mary Schapiro , said in an interview that it should not be necessary for the SEC and the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission to align all their rules and regulation, although she does expect some harmonization.
(Reuters)
U.S. District Court Judge
Samuel B. Kent is impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on charges of obstruction of justice.
(CNN)
The
U.S. Treasury Department confirmed that 10 big banks have met the necessary requirements to repay funds that they have received—a total of $58 billion—in the
Troubled Asset Relief Program of
October 2008 .
(WSJ)
June 20, 2009 (2009-06-20 ) (Saturday)
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June 26, 2009 (2009-06-26 ) (Friday)
June 27, 2009 (2009-06-27 ) (Saturday)
June 28, 2009 (2009-06-28 ) (Sunday)
June 29, 2009 (2009-06-29 ) (Monday)
The Preparatory Commission for the
International Renewable Energy Agency designates the headquarters of the organization to
Masdar City ,
Abu Dhabi .
(Deutsche Welle)
Scientific tests show
bones housed in the
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome are those of the
apostle
Saint Paul himself, according to
Pope Benedict XVI .
(CNN)
Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for
investment fraud .
(The New York Times )
The
United States Air Force test fires an unarmed
Minuteman III
intercontinental ballistic missile from the coast of
California to a point in the Pacific Ocean about 4,200 miles (6,750 km) away.
(AP via KFMB)
Two passenger trains
collide in
Chenzhou ,
Hunan in central China, leaving at least three people dead and 60 injured.
(Xinhua)
Five out of nine local staff from the British embassy in
Tehran ,
Iran , who were recently arrested, are released.
(BBC)
The
Iranian
Guardian Council certifies the controversial
presidential election .
(The New York Times )
The
United Nations
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon will travel to
Burma on Friday to press the country on democratic reform.
(BBC)
The
opposition gained a large victory in
Argentine legislative elections , leading party leader
Néstor Kirchner to step down.
(BBC)
The U.S. resumes secret surveillance flights to aid
Pakistani commanders.
(The New York Times )
June 30, 2009 (2009-06-30 ) (Tuesday)
The
Gas Exporting Countries Forum elects
Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah , oil and energy minister of Qatar, as the president of the organization.
(Bloomberg)
The
President of Cameroon
Paul Biya sacks
Prime Minister
Ephraim Inoni and appoints
Philemon Yang to the role.
(AP via Google News)
Dresden loses its status as a
UNESCO
World Heritage Site .
(Bloomberg)
Germany 's
Constitutional Court
approves the
Treaty of Lisbon , but suspends ratification of it.
(The Wall Street Journal )
Official figures from the
Central Statistics Office show a dramatic contraction in the
Irish economy in the first three months of 2009.
(RTÉ)
At least 15 people are killed and 40 are injured by the derailment of an
Italian freight train and
subsequent explosion of two wagons carrying
liquified petroleum gas in
Viareggio .
(BBC)
Yemenia Flight 626 , an
Airbus A310 , crashes en route to
Moroni ,
Comoros , from
Sana'a ,
Yemen .
(CNN)
U.S. forces pull out of
Baghdad and leave major cities across
Iraq .
(The New York Times )
The Pirate Bay , one of the world's largest
BitTorrent trackers, confirms today that it would be acquired by Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) for 7.8 million USD.
(The Pirate Bay blog )
The
Taliban scraps the truce offered in February by the
Pakistani
government , killing approximately 30 Pakistani
soldiers shortly after making the announcement.
(The New York Times )
The
Israeli
navy intercepts a boat carrying humanitarian supplies headed for
Gaza , which remains under a
blockade .
(The Jerusalem Post )
(Al Jazeera)
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