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- The African
Union stops cooperation with the International Criminal
Court because it charged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
with war crimes. (BBC)
- Three people die and over a dozen are injured in riots after a
dead pig is thrown into an under-construction mosque in Mysore, India. (CNN)
- John
Demjanjuk is declared fit to stand trial for assisting in the
deaths of 29,000 Jews in Treblinka extermination
camp. (RTÉ)
- Energy ministers of Algeria, Niger and Nigeria sign the intergovernmental agreement on
the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline.
(Reuters) (Bloomberg) (BBC)
- Flooding affects parts of County Mayo and County Galway in Ireland. (RTÉ) (The Irish
Times)
- United
Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon arrives
in Burma, meeting junta leader Senior
General Than Shwe and
calling for the release of political prisoners. (BBC) (Bangkok
Post)
- Two Iranian staff working for
the British
embassy in Tehran will face trial over allegedly
inciting protests. (BBC)
- Three dinosaur
species—Australovenator wintonensis, Wintonotitan wattsi and Diamantinasaurus matildae—are
discovered in Australia.
(BBC) (Sydney Morning
Herald)
- Syria invites United States President Barack Obama to the
Damascus summit. (Sky News)
- Algerian raï music star Cheb Mami is jailed for
five years in France for
trying to force his former partner to have an abortion. (BBC) (IOL) (Reuters)
- Manuel Pinho, Portugal's Economy Minister, resigns after
performing a cuckold gesture
at an opposition MP. (BBC)
- North Korea
broadcasts its first ever beer
commercial, for Taedonggang beer. (BBC) (The Los Angeles
Times)
- Two more people die in Viareggio, Italy, following the train explosion,
bringing the death toll to 21. (RTÉ)
- Six people, including three children, are killed after a fire
in a high rise residential tower block in Camberwell, south London, England. (BBC)
- Russia opens a route for
the United
States to fly arms to Afghanistan. (The New York
Times)
- American
politician Sarah
Palin, current Governor of Alaska and 2008 Vice Presidential
candidate, announces her resignation as Governor, effective July
26. (Fox News) (CNN)
- Two aid workers, including one Irish woman, with the charity GOAL are
kidnapped by an armed gang in Sudan's Darfur region. (RTÉ)
- Thirteen people are injured after the Paris to Cahors train derails near Limoges, France. (RTÉ)
- A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of
Cortez shakes western Mexico. (IOL)
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- The Cherokee County
killer claims his fifth victim in South Carolina, USA.(CNN)
- Ireland's Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Micheál Martin, calls for the immediate
release of two aid workers who were kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region. (RTÉ)
- Bishop of Rochester Michael
Nazir-Ali calls on homosexuals to "repent and be changed"
and says the Church of England will not be "rolled
over by culture". (The Daily
Telegraph)
- North Korea test
fires seven more missiles
into the Sea of
Japan. (The Daily
Telegraph) (The Korea
Times) (Xinhua)
- Torrential rain forces over 150,000 people from their homes,
topples hundreds of houses and punches a hole in the spillway of a
dam in southern China. (IOL)
- The United
Nations Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon is denied access to meet detained National League for
Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi while on a visit to
Burma. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Bangkok
Post)
- 12 militants are killed in an air raid in northwestern Pakistan. (Xinhua)
- Nine Chechen policeman
are killed after their vehicle is attacked in neighbouring Ingushetia, southern Russia. (BBC) (The Hindu)
- The Iranian state-owned newspaper
Kayhan calls for Mir-Hossein
Mousavi to stand trial. (The Los Angeles
Times)
- 35 people are arrested in Mazandran, northern Iran, during post-election protests. (Press TV)
- Serena
Williams wins the women's singles at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships
after defeating her sister, Venus Williams. (The Daily
Telegraph)
- Three people die as a result of contracting swine
flu in New
Zealand, the country's first flu deaths. (IOL) (The Irish
Times)
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- July 2009 Ürümqi riots
- A public memorial for Michael Jackson
takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, with over 17,000 viewing in Los
Angeles, and millions more viewing
around the world. (AP via Google News)
- UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon begins
his two-day visit to Ireland.(RTÉ)
- Police shoot dead the Cherokee County serial killer,
identified as Patrick Tracy Burris, after he
fired several times at the police. (BBC)
- Tunisian police charge
nine men—including two air force officers—with plotting several
deaths during joint military exercises with the US. (Jerusalem Post)
(BBC)
- A £1m permanent memorial to the victims of the July 7, 2005 London
bombings is unveiled in the city's Hyde Park. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- An institutional child abuse museum is suggested in Ireland
by the Labour Party's Ruairi Quinn, with Education
Minister Batt
O'Keeffe criticising the Opposition on the issue. (RTÉ)
- The United
Nations Security Council
condemns the recent missile launches by North Korea. (Xinhua)
- The United
Nations says around 204,000 people have fled violence in Mogadishu, Somalia as a result of a
militant offensive against government forces. (CNN)
- Two bombs explode in the
southern Philippines, killing two and injuring 53.
(Philippine Daily
Inquirer) (Bloomberg)
- Pope Benedict XVI calls for
a new financial world order guided by ethics, dignity and the
search for a common good. (The Times of
India) (Associated Press)
- 12 people die in a U.S. missile strike on a training camp
run by Baitullah Mehsud in South
Waziristan, Pakistan.
(Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is to
meet with United
States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Reuters)
- Iraq bans planned group visits
to Saddam
Hussein's grave. (BBC)
- United States President Barack Obama
addresses graduates in Moscow,
Russia. (BBC) (The New York
Times) (RIA Novosti)
- A Mikoyan
MiG-29 of the Serbian military crashes at Batajnica Air
Base near Belgrad, killing the pilot and one soldier
on the ground. (Sky News)
- Iranian opposition leaders
call for the release of people who demonstrated in the
aftermath of the disputed presidential
election. (New Straits
Times)
- Prosecutors at the International Criminal
Court challenge a tribunal's decision not to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide in Darfur. (Associated Press)
- Al Franken is
sworn in as a U.S.
Senator, the 60th caucusing with the Democratic Party which
is a filibuster-proof
majority. (The New York
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- The European Commission fines GDF Suez and E.ON €553 million each over arrangements on
the MEGAL
pipeline. (Financial
Times) (The Wall Street
Journal) (Bloomberg) (Reuters)
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen announces
that the second
referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon in Ireland
will be held on October 2. (RTÉ) (The Irish
Times)
- North Korean
leader Kim Jong-il
makes a rare public appearance to mark the 15th anniversary of his father's death. (BBC) (CTV) (The Guardian)
(MSNBC) (The Times)
- The 35th G8 Summit begins in L'Aquila, Italy. (BBC News) (CNN)
- July 2009 Ürümqi riots
- Debris and bodies from Yemenia Flight 626, which crashed
off the Comoros in the Indian Ocean, wash up
on Mafia Island,
Tanzania. (BBC)
- Indonesian
presidential election, 2009
- Malaysian opposition
leader Anwar
Ibrahim's trial on sodomy
charges of engaging in sexual intercourse with a male aide
is delayed after his main defence lawyer falls ill. (BBC)
- July 2009 Mindanao bombings
- Strikes by 70,000 workers in South Africa halt work on the World Cup
2010 stadiums. (BBC) (AFP)
- South Korea says
North Korea is
behind a number of cyber attacks on the websites of
government agencies, banks and businesses in South Korea and the United States. (Yonhap) (BBC) (The Times)
- Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and
interim President Roberto Micheletti agree to talks
under mediation by Costa
Rica. (The
Guardian)
- Iran says two thirds of protesters have already
been released and another 100 will be freed in the aftermath of the
disputed presidential
election. (Reuters)
- Germany defends its
response to the stabbing of pregnant Egyptian Marwa
El-Sherbini, saying Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet the Egyptian
President to discuss the affair. (BBC) (CBC) (CNN) (The Guardian)
(The Irish
Times)
- Four Rio
Tinto executives accused of espionage are detained by Chinese Authorities
amid iron ore
negotiations. (News.com.au)
- Two car bombs blow up in Mosul, the second of them killing at least nine
people. (BBC)
- Undercover investigators smuggle bomb-making materials into
government buildings in the United States, assembling bombs within,
on ten occasions. (BBC)
- The
Guardian claims that rival English newspaper, the Rupert
Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid, paid £1 million in
court costs after its journalists were accused of involvement in
phone tapping celebrities and politicians. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Sydney Morning
Herald)
- It is claimed that the drug rapamycin, discovered in the soil of Easter Island in
the 1970s, may help to fight the ageing process. (BBC)
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- Twelve European companies launch the €400 billion Desertec project to built solar thermal power stations
in North Africa. (Bloomberg)
- Burma announces it will
release an unspecified number of political prisoners to allow them to
take part in the 2010 general election.
(BBC) (Bangkok Post)
(Reuters)
- Henry Okah, a guerrilla leader of the Movement
for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, is released from
detainment after accepting an amnesty offered by the Nigerian government. (BBC)
- Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria sign an intergovernmental agreement on
the construction of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline. (BBC)
- At least 16 people have died, including eight children, in the
city of Mian Channu,
Pakistan, after a bomb blast in a school. (CNN) (The Times of
India)
- Greek police use
bulldozers to completely clear a sprawling migrant camp that had been in place in the port
town of Patras for over a
decade. (Sky News)
- The United
Kingdom halts some arms sales to Israel following the Gaza conflict. (The Times) (Haaretz)
- Ürümqi police
shoot dead two armed suspects and injure another, all being from
the Uyghur
ethnic group. (BBC) (AP via Google News) (Xinhua) (ChinaDaily)
- The Movement
for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta claims an attack on a
oil depot in Lagos, Nigeria. (Forbes) (Vanguard)
- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
makes his first visit to South Ossetia. (RIA Novosti) (Bangkok
Post)
- John
Demjanjuk is charged with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder in World War II at a
court in Germany. (Deutsche Welle) (AP)
- An explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills a
police chief and injures four others. The Taliban are the suspected culprits of the attack. (The New York
Times)
- U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for
United States Supreme
Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor begin. (CNN)
- Former Prime
Minister of Lebanon Amin al-Hafez dies at age 83. (AP via Google News)
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- Malaysian opposition party
PAS wins the Manek Urai by-election
against government-led Barisan Nasional. (The Straits
Times)
- Jerzy Buzek,
former Prime Minister of Poland, is elected the
28th President of the
European Parliament, succeeding Hans-Gert Pöttering. (BBC) (AHN) (AFP)
- The World Health Organization
reports that yields for an H1N1 virus vaccine are lower than expected. (CTV)
- July 2009 Ürümqi riots
- Two foreign nationals, believed to be French, are kidnapped by gunmen after a hotel is
stormed in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
- 323 people – 289 Saudis and 41 foreigners – are sentenced at a
court in Saudi
Arabia for links to anti-government groups. (Al Jazeera)
- Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso survives a vote of
no-confidence. (Mainichi Daily
News) (Associated Press)
- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor takes the stand
in his own defence at his trial. (Liberian
Inquirer) (IOL)
- 240 people are arrested in a series of riots in France on the eve of the Bastille Day
celebrations. (BBC) (France 24)
- Talks on immigration between the United States and
Cuba, suspended since 2003, will
resume. (BBC) (Xinhua)
- The Lithuanian
parliament overcomes the President's veto and passes
a law which forbids propaganda of homosexual, bisexual and
polygamous relations, in order to protect minors from detriment to their development.
At the same time the law forbids any mocking and defiance on the
basis of sexual orientation. (Delfi) (Washington Post)
- Canada imposes visa
requirements to come into effect on July 14 on travellers from Mexico and the Czech Republic
after a big jump in refugee
claims from these two countries. (BBC)
- An Egyptian civil servant is
jailed for three years for insulting President Hosni Mubarak in a poem. (BBC)
- The 11th Micronesian Chief Executives’ Summit (MCES) of Micronesian leaders opens
in Majuro, Marshall
Islands. (Pacific News
Center)
- Judy Chu wins the
32nd congressional district special election, becoming the
first Chinese
American woman elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives. (Los Angeles Times)
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- The Episcopal Church of the United States votes
to overturn a three-year ban on the appointment of gay bishops. (BBC)
- The Catholic
Church praises Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood Prince after previously accusing the
books of promoting witchcraft and the occult. (Irish
Independent)
- Caspian
Airlines Flight 7908, flying from
Tehran to Yerevan, Armenia with 153 passengers and 15 crew members
on board, crashes in Iran shortly
after takeoff. (BBC) (Press TV)
- A 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes off South Island, New Zealand, generating
brief fears of a small tsunami. (Associated Press) (New Zealand
Herald) (RTÉ) (USGS)
- China's foreign exchange reserves
have reached a record of US$ 2.13 trillion, which is more
than twice the size of Japan's—the second-biggest holder. (BBC) (Xinhua)
- China urges its citizens in
Algeria to "take extra care"
after reports circulate of a militant group's plans to avenge
recent deaths of Muslim Uyghurs. (BBC)
- Maria del Carmen Bousada
de Lara, the world's oldest new mother, is announced to have
died of cancer aged 69, three
years after giving birth. (BBC)
- Six people, including two traffic police, are killed and
sixteen people are injured in a suicide attack in Anbar, Iraq. (RTÉ)
- A group of soldiers who took part in Israel's assault in Gaza say widespread
abuses were committed against civilians under "permissive" rules of
engagement. (BBC)
- Two people are killed and five are injured in the explosion at
a Total petrochemicals
plant in Carling, France. (France 24) (RTÉ)
- Chansa
Kabwela, editor of Zambia's biggest-selling newspaper The Post, is charged
with distributing obscene materials relating to a health sector
crisis. (BBC) (IOL) (Sowetan)
- The British government opts not to end the Common Travel
Area between the United Kingdom and Ireland. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Space
Shuttle Endeavour launches on
mission STS-127 to the International Space
Station. (BBC)
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- A Ugandan study finds circumcising men who
already have HIV does not protect
their female partners from the virus. (BBC)
- A United
Nations Security Council
committee imposes further sanctions on North Korea. (BBC) (Xinhua) (Japan Today)
- China's GDP grows 7.9% year by year in the second
quarter of 2009, despite the global economic crisis. (Xinhua) (China Daily) (BBC)
- Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, head of
the Atomic Energy
Organization of Iran and Vice President of Iran, resigns
for unknown reasons. (ISNA) (BBC) (Jerusalem Post)
(Xinhua)
- Former South
Korean President and Nobel Peace
Prize winner Kim
Dae-jung is in an intensive care unit in a Seoul hospital being treated for pneumonia. (Yonhap) (BBC)
- President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of
Turkmenistan
announces the latest stage of a plan to channel drainage water from
the country's cotton fields
through desert. (BBC)
- Iceland votes by a
narrow majority to set in motion an application to join the European Union,
after five days of debate. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The
Independent) (The
Telegraph)
- The Holy See
acknowledges Oscar
Wilde as a "lucid analyst of the modern world", softening its
hardline stance against the poet. (The Daily
Telegraph) (The
Guardian)
- Interim Honduran President Roberto
Micheletti says he is willing to step down, only if Jose Manuel Zelaya ceases his claim to the
presidency. (CNN) (AFP)
- Omar Bongo's son,
Ali-Ben
Bongo, is chosen to stand as the ruling party's presidential
candidate in Gabon. (BBC)
- Chinese athletes withdraw
from the opening ceremony of the World Games but say they will compete. (BBC)
- A magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurs off the coast of Papua New
Guinea but causes little damage. (RTÉ)
- The 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago, United States is renamed the Willis Tower. (BBC)
- The black boxes from crashed Caspian
Airlines Flight 7908 in Iran are recovered. (Bernama) (Press TV) (Press Association)
- Zac
Sunderland, at the age of 17, becomes the youngest person to
sail around the world alone. (BBC)
- Madonna's concert in Marseille, France is cancelled after her
stage collapses, killing one and injuring nine. (AFP) (BBC) (Boston Globe)
(CBC) (Japan Today) (MSNBC) (Pravda) (The
Telegraph)
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- Footage of FARC leader Jorge Briceño saying he financed Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's 2006 campaign is
broadcast on Colombian
television. (BBC) (AFP)
- Timothy
Kirkhope MEP defends alleged
homophobic remarks
made by European
Conservatives and Reformists' leader Michał
Kamiński in a television interview. (BBC)
- Pope Benedict XVI slips in
the bath in his mountain chalet and is treated for a fractured
wrist in Aosta, Italy. (BBC) (The Guardian)
(The Irish
Times) (RTÉ) (The
Telegraph)
- A second person dies from the collapse of a stage being built
in Marseille for Madonna's forthcoming tour to France. (AFP) (BBC) (Daily Mail) (The Guardian)
(The Times)
- Irish President Mary McAleese announces her intention to
convene a meeting of the Council of State on 22 July.
(The Irish
Times)
- Brazil complains of 64
containers with over 1,400 tonnes of British used condoms, syringes and
rotting nappies located in three of the country's ports. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Sky News)
- Two journalists from South Africa and the United Kingdom
are due in court after being allegedly attacked and then arrested
while filming seal hunters in Namibia. (BBC)
- Hong Kong appoints a
new chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary
Authority. (SCMP)
- Ruslan Balayev, Ingushetia's minister for sport, is shot
dead in his car. (The Irish
Times)
- Ghana is set to receive a
US$600 million three-year loan from the International Monetary
Fund. (BBC) (Reuters)
- The World Bank
approves a US$76 million loan for Mozambique. (Reuters Africa)
- An argument between the National Portrait
Gallery and online encyclopedia Wikipedia over use of images escalates. (BBC)
- Bombings at the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels
in Jakarta, Indonesia, kill at least
nine people and injure at least 50 others. (AP) (Herald Sun) (Reuters) (The Times)
- Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani holds
Friday prayers in Tehran and calls for the release
of political prisoners from the election protests. (BBC) (Associated Press) (Press TV)
- At least 14 people, including 11 Serbian tourists, are killed and at least 10
tourists are injured in a bus collision with a lorry on a road near
Port Safaga, Egypt. (BBC) (Jang Group) (Reuters UK) (Reuters Africa)
- 22 prominent figures, including Poland's Lech Wałęsa and the Czech Republic's
Václav Havel,
warn in an open letter to the Barack Obama administration
against developing closer ties with Russia. (The New York
Times)
- BBC staff's expenses claims are
revealed to include candles, flowers, champagne and a hamper. (The Daily
Telegraph)
- 49 members of a Sicilian
Mafia syndicate are jailed in Italy in what the government describes as a
landmark case. (BBC)
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- China produces a Giant Panda using
frozen sperm. (BBC) (The Irish
Times) (The Washington
Post) (Xinhua)
- At least six people die as a Croatian high-speed train travelling from Zagreb to Split derails
30km from its destination. (AP via Google News)
- Chloe Smith wins
the Norwich North
by-election, the first British constituency by-election since the
United
Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, and gains the Conservative Party a seat held by Labour for the past 12 years. (The
Guardian)
- 20 people are killed in a bus crash near Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (BBC)
- The President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is
declared as the winner of the Indonesian
presidential election. (AP via Google News)
- Wildfires in the north
east of Spain claim the lives of
six firefighters in that region. (Sky News)
- The trial of Burmese National League for
Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi nears its end. (Jakarta Globe)
(The Times) (Al Jazeera)
- Iranian President
Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad is urged to dismiss his choice of Vice
President, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei. (Associated Press) (Press TV)
- Aria Air Flight
1525 crashes in Mashhad,
Iran, killing at least 17 people
and injuring 19 of the 153 people on board. (BBC)
- The Gran Telescopio Canarias, the
world's largest reflecting telescope, is
inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain. (The New York
Times)
- Afghan President
Hamid Karzai,
setting out his election manifesto, vows to make foreign troops
sign a framework governing how they operate in a bid to limit
civilians casualties. (Reuters)
- Canada's national rail
service, Via Rail, cancels train service due to a strike by its
engineer workers. (CTV)
- FBI and IRS agents arrests 44 people,
including five rabbis, two New Jersey state
legislators, and three mayors in Operation Bid Rig. (The New York Times)
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- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
delivers her last State of the
Nation Address and denies plans to extend her term which end in
June 2010 as plans to convene a
constituent assembly to amend the constitution erupts. (BBC) (Philippine Daily
Inquirer)
- A line of wildfires in the
Mediterranean region, which has
killed eight people, spreads to Croatia. (RTÉ) (The Times)
- At least 150 people are killed as clashes
continue between radical Islamists in northern Nigeria after two days of unrest. (BBC) (Associated Press) (Africasia)
- Canada challenges the seal ban of the European Union at
the World Trade Organization. (BBC) (CBC) (Reuters)
- The United
States and China begin the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
(AFP) (Xinhua) (Reuters)
- Former Liberian leader
Charles Taylor denies cannibalism at his war
trial in The Hague. (BBC) (The Times)
- A rural community in the Eastern Cape in South Africa lays claim to the entire town
of Mthatha in one of the biggest land
restitution cases since the end of apartheid. (Sky News)
- Patriarch
Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church begins
a visit to Ukraine. (BBC)
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy
leaves hospital after tests due to his fainting
fits. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Times)
- German health minister Ulla Schmidt is
criticised when her official car is stolen during the
burglarization of her driver's hotel room in Alicante, Spain. (BBC) (Deutsche Welle)
- A Saudi man facing flogging or imprisonment for speaking of his
illegal sexual conquests on television
apologises for his actions. (BBC)
- A break-in at Christ Church Cathedral in Waterford, Ireland, damages the building and
the Thomas Elliott organ, dating from 1817. (The Irish
Times) (RTÉ) (Sunday
Tribune)
- Researchers outline bokodes, a proposed replacement for the black
and white stripes of the traditional barcode. (BBC)
- A British-led military offensive, Operation Panther's Claw,
succeeds in clearing the Taliban from parts of southern Helmand
Province in Afghanistan. (CNN)
- Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha's
alliance wins enough seats to form a government, though it fell one
seat short of a majority. (BBC)
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- 70,000 people are evacuated from Bryan, TX, USA, after ammonium
nitrate is released during a fire at the El Dorado Chemical Company warehouse
there. (The Examiner) (AP via google)
- Palmanova
bombing
- Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha
indicates he may
legalise gay marriage in the country. (CBS) (Straits
Times)
- 2009
Nigeria religious violence
- The United States Coast Guard
calls off its search for as many as 79 Haitians missing after their boat
capsized near the Turks and Caicos Islands with
two hundred people onboard. (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
- Iranian police clash with
mourners at a Tehranian
cemetery for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence,
using teargas to disperse crowds from the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan and
forcing Opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to make his
exit. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Cook Islands
Prime Minister Jim Marurai fires Foreign Minister Wilkie
Rasmussen, accusing him of plotting to topple the government.
(RNZI)
- A South Korean
fishing boat is towed away by a North Korean patrol boat. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Korea
Times) (RTÉ)
- Moldovan President Vladimir
Voronin says he is ready for dialogue "with all political
forces represented in the new parliament". (RTÉ)
- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promises to
create 50,000 green jobs and apprenticeships to combat climate
change and unemployment simultaneously. (Straits
Times)
- U.S. President Barack Obama arranged
a meeting with police officer Sgt. James Crowley and African
American public
intellectual Henry Louis Gates at the White House in a bid to
quell a dispute over racial profiling that arose from an altercation between the two of them. (AP via New York
Times)
- Referendum Commission research
indicates a significant
increase in the level of understanding of the Treaty of
Lisbon among Irish voters. (RTÉ)
- Islamist militants kill at
least 15 Algerian soldiers
and injure 20 others in an ambush outside Tipaza. (BBC)
- 8 people are killed and 10 are injured in a bomb attack on the
offices of a Sunni political party, Kitab Sultan, in Diyala
Governorate. (Straits
Times)
- Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy wins a
"landmark victory" in the House of Lords in her fight to allow her
husband to help her commit suicide abroad. (RTÉ) (Sky News)
- Iraq's government admit that
seven Iranian exiles were killed
when Iraqi forces took control
of their camp north of Baghdad. (Reuters)
- University College Dublin
quarantines seven language students after around sixty mainly Italian and Russian students are assessed by doctors for swine
flu. (RTÉ)
- The United
States Presidential Medal of
Freedom is awarded to several international figures including
Stephen
Hawking, Billie Jean King, Harvey Milk, Sidney Poitier,
Mary Robinson,
Desmond Tutu and
Muhammad
Yunus. (Boston Globe)
(The Los Angeles
Times) (San Francisco
Chronicle)
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- Nigerian battles
- Spain
- Venezuela
- U.S. House of
Representatives approves an extra $2 billion to the Car Allowance Rebate
System. (The Wall Street
Journal)
- A Norwegian cargo vessel
with a crew of six sinks after a storm in Swedish waters near Strömstad. (CBC) (Reuters) (RTÉ)
- Eight Dutch
tourists are killed and 42 people are injured in a bus crash near Barcelona. (Bangkok Post)
(RTÉ) (The Times of
India)
- Patrizia D'Addario, the escort at the centre of Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi's sex scandal, claims he and his party offered her a
seat in the European Parliament until his wife
complained. (BBC)
- Gazprom launches
construction of the Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok
gas pipeline. (Reuters) (UPI)
- British
Airways loses £148m in the last three months, the company's
first loss since privatisation in 1987. (Sky News)
- The verdict in the trial of National League for
Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi, scheduled for today,
is postponed until August 11. (Bangkok Post)
(Al Jazeera) (RTÉ) (The Straits
Times)
- 28 people are killed in Iraq
after bombs explode at Shiite mosques in Baghdad. (The Times of
India) (AFP)
- Space Shuttle
Endeavour lands at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, United States,
ending a 16-day mission to
the International Space Station
(ISS). (BBC)
- Aerial photographs reveal the streetplan of the lost Roman city
of Altinum, regarded by some
scholars as a forerunner of Venice. (BBC) (Der Spiegel) (The Times)
- Briton Gary McKinnon,
accused of carrying out the biggest ever U.S. military hacking
operation, loses his court appeal to have his case heard in
Britain, and faces extradition to the United States. (CNN) (RTÉ)
- Filmmaker Benicio del Toro is presented with the
International Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Prize by the Cuban government in Havana. (BBC) (The New York
Times)
- Research claiming to have created human sperm in a Newcastle laboratory is withdrawn
due to evidence of plagiarism. (The Daily
Telegraph)
- Three United
States tourists are detained by Iranians in Iraq.
(BBC)
- The giant Swiss bank UBS and that nation's government have
agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against UBS by United States tax
authorities, in an agreement that seems likely to result in giving
the Internal Revenue Service
access to thousands of previously secret U.S. client accounts. (Globe & Mail)
- A church in Copenhagen offers blessings to 18 same-sex couples from around the
world who are typically chastised. (The Copenhagen
Post)
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