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June 4, 2014
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2014-06-04
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
:
Separatists capture two
Ukrainian Military
bases in
Luhansk Oblast
as fighting continues near the rebel-held town of
Sloviansk
.
(BBC News)
A suicide car bomber detonates his vehicle at the residence of
Khalifa Haftar
in
Benghazi
,
Libya
, killing four of his guards and injuring another three.
(
Washington Post
)
A suicide bomber detonates his explosives near a military vehicle in
Islamabad
,
Pakistan
, killing five people.
(Voice of America)
Iraqi Civil War
begins.
Arts and culture
The master stylist
John Banville
wins this year's
Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
, announced in
Oviedo
, Spain.
(Euronews)
(
The Irish Times
)
Eimear McBride
wins the
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
with
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
, beating the American
Donna Tartt
's 771-page opus
The Goldfinch
.
(
The Guardian
)
Business and economics
Japanese
life insurance
company
Dai-ichi Life
purchases financial service holding company
Protective Life
for
$
5.7 billion.
(Bloomberg)
American multinational
private equity firm
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
purchases American
new media
company
Internet Brands
for
$
1.1 billion.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
Law and crime
Mexico passes a law
that increases the
minimal sentence
for kidnappers from 20 to 40, and the maximum from 50 to 140.
(InSight Crime)
Authorities in
China
crack down on dissidents on the 25th anniversary of the
Tiananmen Square massacre
.
(Human Rights Watch)
Thirty-five people, including
Giorgio Orsoni
, the
Mayor of Venice
, are arrested in
Italy
on corruption charges in connection with the
MOSE Project
.
(BBC News)
The
Attorney General of Germany
,
Harald Range
, opens an investigation into the alleged
NSA
surveillance of Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone
.
(BBC News)
The
International Court of Arbitration
in
The Hague
urges
China
to respond to
Philippines v. China
, the case filed by the
Philippines
regarding the
Nine-dotted line
.
(Voice of America)
Moncton shooting
In the city of
Moncton
,
New Brunswick
,
Canada
, an armed gunman shoots five
RCMP
officers, killing three.
(CBC)
Sports
In
basketball
, the attorney for banned
Los Angeles Clippers
owner
Donald Sterling
tells
ESPN
that Sterling will drop his lawsuit against the
NBA
and will allow the sale of the team to
Steve Ballmer
to go through.
(ESPN)
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