Portal:Current events/2006 June 21
June 21, 2006 (Wednesday)
- War in Afghanistan: Six Canadian soldiers are wounded following two separate attacks in the southern provinces of Afghanistan. The six casualties are the first coalition casualties since Operation Mountain Thrust began on June 12, 2006. (CBC)
- The Government of Chad demands that the Security Council act to stop Janjaweed and UFDC incursions into Chad. (Reuters)
- In a press conference in South Africa, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir says that United Nations peacekeeping forces shall never enter Sudan because they are controlled by an international Jewish conspiracy involving "heavy propaganda and media campaigns." (SudanTribune)
- The United States Marine Corps announces that it will be charging seven Marines and one sailor with charges including murder in relation to the death of civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Al Hamdaniya, Iraq, on April 26. A fourth soldier from the 101st Airborne Division was charged in connection with the shooting deaths of three detainees during an operation in Salahuddin province in May. (NBC) (CNN)
- Xanana Gusmão, President of East Timor, asks Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri to resign. (CNN)
- Saddam Hussein's principal defense lawyer, Khamis al-Obeidi, is assassinated in Baghdad. (BBC)
- United States celebrates national Go Skateboarding Day.
- Ukraine's formerly estranged Orange Revolution allies reach an agreement to restore Yulia Tymoshenko as Prime Minister of Ukraine after three months of uncertainty. (Kyiv Post)
- Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Episcopal bishop of Nevada, and the new leader of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America has said that homosexuality is not a sin. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
- Superman Returns is released in theaters.