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- Burmese Democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi turns 65, as international and domestic pressure for her release from house arrest intensify. Guards surrounding her home allow her to receive a birthday cake and a bouquet of flowers from political supporters. (Yahoo! News)
- Eight Turkish troops are killed in an attack by Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey. In response, Kurdish positions are targeted by Turkish airstrikes in Northern Iraq. Twelve Kurdish rebels are killed. (BBC) (IOL)
- A gunman shoots 4 people then turns the gun on himself in San Bernardino, California. (AP via Atlanta Journal Constitution)
- A former Rwandan army chief in exile, Faustin Nyamwasa, is shot in South Africa. (BBC) (News24) (Al Jazeera)
- At least 48 people are killed in rival clashes between nomadic groups in the Darfur region of Sudan. (BBC) (AFP)
- Gunfire at a combat post in Afghanistan killed a French soldier and wounded an Afghan translator. (CNN)
- A drone attack on a militant hideout in North Waziristan in Pakistan, killed at least 13 people and injured six others. (CNN)
- 5 policemen were killed and 14 others injured in four separate attacks against the police forces in Pakistan. (Xinhua)
- Four suspected al-Qaida gunmen blasted their way into the intelligence headquarters. The attack on the heavily protected security complex killed 18 in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen. (China Daily) (Washington Post)
- Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria marries Daniel Westling; Westling becomes Duke of Västergötland. (BusinessWeek)
- 10 Turkish soldiers were killed during clashes with Kurdish rebels on the border of Turkey and Iraq, in Şemdinli township of Hakkari province and in the Gediktepe-Tekeli region. (TRT) (CNN)
- Nauruan parliamentary election:
- Flooding in South China kills at least 88 people, and forces nearly 750,000 people to leave their homes. (BBC News) (Le Monde) (nzherald) (ABC)
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- Heavy rains claim 46 lives in Maharashtra, India. (Hindustan Times)
- At least 46 people are killed, 50 others disappear and millions are affected following heavy five-day rains in China's southern regions. (The Hindu)
- 46 people die when heavy rains trigger landslides in western Myanmar, in Rakhine state in an area bordering Bangladesh. (CNN)
- Dutch novelist Gerbrand Bakker wins the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Twin. (The Guardian) (Irish Independent) (The Irish Times)
- 16 people are killed and around 70 others are trapped after a blast at the San Fernando mine in Amagá, Antioquia, in Colombia. (BBC) (Reuters) (France24) (China Dialy)
- 3 people died after supports collapsed on them at a coal mine in east China's Anhui Province, a spokesman with the Anhui Huainan Mining Group in Bagongshan District of Huainan City. (People Dialy)
- As many as 1,800 homes are estimated to have been destroyed on Biak Island, West Papua, Indonesia, as a result of the 7.0 magnitude 2010 Papua earthquake. (RNZI) (AsiaNews.it)
- Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster:
- 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis and 2010 South Kyrgyzstan riots:
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- FIFA World Cup:
- The Los Angeles Lakers win the 2010 NBA Finals defeating the Boston Celtics 83-79 in Game 7. (CBS News)
- Turkish warplanes carry out a series of airstrikes against suspected Kurdish targets in Iraq and Turkish soldiers withdraw from Iraqi territory after sending troops in pursuit of Kurdish rebels in the latest fighting between Turkey and Kurdish rebels. (CNN)
- The Times Square bombing attempt suspect is indicted on 10 terrorism and weapons charges in New York City. (AP via Dayton Daily News)
- A four-year Canadian inquiry concludes that a "cascading series of errors" led to the bombing of Air India Flight 182 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean south of Ireland on 23 June 1985, killing all 329 people on board. (BBC) (Aljazeera)
- 3 additional U.S. soldiers based in Washington state are facing murder charges in the deaths of 3 Afghan civilians. (CNN)
- About 110,000 Haredi Jews protest in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling to jail Slonimer parents in Immanuel, who follow their rebbe's order not to send their girls to school with girls of non-Ashkenazi descent. (JTA) (Haaretz) (YnetNews) (Aljazeera)(The Jerusalem Post)
- African leaders meet in Chad to discuss the Great Green Wall tree belt from Senegal to Djibouti in the battle against the Sahara. (BBC)
- European Union leaders approve sanctions in Brussels, including bans on investments and oil/gas technology transfers, against Iran, harsher than recent sanctions imposed by the United Nations. Russia calls these and sanctions by the United States "unacceptable". (BBC) (Reuters) (Aljazeera) (The News International)
- Powerful Austrian publisher and household name Hans Dichand, who greatly influenced Austrian politics, dies aged 89. (The Hindu) (Business Week) (Austrian Independent)
- Kenyan Assistant Roads Minister Wilfred Machage is suspended by President Mwai Kibaki after being charged, alongside two other MPs, with inciting hatred yesterday. (BBC) (Reuters Africa)
- Rwanda releases from custody an American lawyer for health reasons. The lawyer is charged with genocide denial and threatening state security, the first outsider tried under the country's 2003 anti-genocide legislation. (Reuters Africa)
- Hundreds of surveillance cameras, alleged to be part of a counter-terrorism operation in highly Muslim areas, are put into temporary disuse in parts of Birmingham, England, after protest by the local population. (The Guardian) (BBC)
- European researchers conclude that the male menopause exists in 2% of middle-aged men who experience poor morning erection, low levels of sexual desire and erectile dysfunction. (BBC)
- The historical chronology of ancient Egypt is verified using radiocarbon dating. (BBC)
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- The Jamaican Government orders civilians to keep off the streets for two days in several slums in Kingston because authorities are still hunting for Christopher Coke, alleged by the United States to be a drug lord. (AP)
- American police in the city of Seattle say they will "review training procedures" after a video attracts international attention of one of their white policemen punching a black teenage girl who intervened when he confronted another girl about crossing a road at a legally forbidden area uncontrolled by traffic lights. They deny he did anything wrong. (CNN) (BBC) (IOL) (Sky News)
- The United Nations Human Rights Council says Britain is arranging its third enforced removal of Iraqi asylum applicants to Baghdad despite appeals for it to stop amid safety fears for the individuals concerned. (Aljazeera) (The Guardian) (BBC)
- Iranian nuclear program sanctions:
- Gulf of Mexico oil disaster:
- Middle East:
- At least 49 people are killed during landslides in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, with many swept to their deaths as they slept. (Aljazeera)
- At least 25 people die during flooding in the Var department of Côte d'Azur, Southern France. (Le Monde) (France24) (BBC) (Sky News) (The Daily Telegraph)
- A shootout in the Mexican tourist town of Taxco leaves 15 dead. (CNN)
- Two separate blasts in eastern Baghdad kill 1 person and wound another 8. (asharq-e)
- 4 Russian policemen are killed in the North Caucasus. (Xinhua)
- A shallow strong quake with magnitude of 7.1 jolts Papua province in easternmost Indonesia, killing 3 people and causing damage in Serui and Biak, in Yapen district. (Xinhua) (SINA) (ABC) (CNN)
- Two Sudanese, Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus, surrender to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to be charged on Thursday with "murder", "intentionally directing attacks against peacekeeping personnel" and "stealing property" in relation to a 2007 attack on African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, which killed 12. (BBC) (IOL) (CNN) (Reuters)
- More than £200 million in health funding to the Zambian government is suspended by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, though some aid is given to non-government groups and the fund's director of communications says life-saving treatments remain unaffected. (BBC)
- George Osborne scraps Britain's financial regulator and grants new powers to the Bank of England. (Sky News)
- The National Army of Colombia says an unknown number of informants who aided the rescue of three police officers and a soldier from FARC on Sunday will receive a $1.2 million reward between them. (BBC)
- Shanghai International Film Festival:
- Two Dutch women appear in a South African court over an alleged "ambush marketing" stunt after more than 30 people were ejected from the Johannesburg stadium on Monday during the match between Denmark and the Netherlands in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (BBC) (Sky News) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- The annual Dragon Boat Festival starts in Lhasa. (tibet.cn)
- A six-storey statue of Jesus Christ is struck by lightning and razed to the ground in a city in the US state of Ohio. (The Guardian) (The Money Times) (ITN) (TVNZ)
- Researchers from four Italian universities identify human remains discovered in a church in Tuscany as "almost certainly" being those of Renaissance artist Caravaggio. (BBC)
- NCAA (U.S. college) conference realignment:
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- Human rights in Iran:
- A US marine convicted in the Hamdania incident, one of the worst war crimes from the Iraq War, and sentenced to eleven years in prison in 2006 is released from prison after a military appeals court in Washington decides he did not receive a fair trial. The Navy is appealing that court's decision.(PA) (AP) (Aljazeera) (Gulf News) (The Washington Post)
- Militants kill 12 police officers in a string of attacks and six civilians die in bombings in Afghanistan, and a U.S. soldier is killed in a gun battle in eastern Afghanistan in the latest fighting in the war in Afghanistan. (USA Today)
- Heavy rain triggers landslides that leave at least 24 people dead in Sichuan province's Kangding county. In one incident, part of a mountain fell on a construction site in Sichuan province, crushing workers who were sleeping in tents. (news.com.pk) (China Dialy)
- The trial begins of 33 alleged members of Ergenekon over alleged plans to topple the Turkish government, while groups hold small protests outside the courthouse in their favour. (Aljazeera) (BBC) (euronews)
- Two trains collide in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa resulting in the death of at least 13 people. (AP via USA Today)
- Saville Inquiry:
- 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)
- Islamist gunmen in Somalia shoot two people dead and detain 10 others who were watching a televised FIFA World Cup match; a member of one group later said watching the World Cup is anti-Islamic. (CNN)
- 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 is arrested with a sword, a pistol and night-vision goggles in northwestern Pakistan.(Wall St. Journal) (Aljazeera)
- 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis and 2010 South Kyrgyzstan riots:
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
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- The Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership is awarded to no one for a second consecutive year. (Aljazeera)
- Fighting between Somali government troops and local police has killed at least 13 people in Mogadishu and gunmen killed a judiciary official of the semi-autonomous Puntland region in the Hamarjajab district. (Arab News)
- 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 Ted 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)
- NCAA (U.S. college) conference realignment:
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