Portal:Current events/2008 June 25
June 25, 2008 (Wednesday)
- EU's representative in Kosovo Pieter Feith says he expects Montenegro will recognize Kosovo's unilateral independence "as soon as possible", as it would "contribute to regional stability". (B92)
- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is stripped of his honorary Order of the Bath knighthood, upon the advice of the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. (The Guardian)
- United States Supreme Court
- The US Supreme Court rules in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker that the damages awarded in the Exxon Valdez case were excessive and reduces them from $2.7 billion to $507 million. (AFP via Google News)
- The US Supreme Court rules in Kennedy v. Louisiana that the death penalty may not be used for crimes which did not result in the death of another person. (The New York Times)
- Violent protests over the Amarnath shrine immobilize Srinagar and other parts of Indian Jammu and Kashmir. (BBC News)
- China reopens Tibet to foreign tourists as a ban imposed during the Tibetan unrest is lifted. (BBC News)
- The Italian Senate passes a bill which the opposition claims is designed to ameliorate the legal troubles of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. (BBC News)
- Saudi Arabia announces that it is holding 520 al-Qaeda-linked militants in the insurgency in Saudi Arabia arrested in 2008. (BBC News)
- The Supreme Court of Pakistan delays by-elections until it can handle the appeal of disqualified candidate Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). (BBC News)
- A worker at a plastics plant in Henderson, Kentucky shoots and kills five people and wounds another before killing himself. (WYMT-TV)
- The Government of New Zealand agrees to hand over $NZ420 million in forestry assets to seven Maori tribes as part of the reconciliation process. (AFP via Google News)
- The Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert strikes a deal with the Labor Party to avoid dissolution of the Knesset in return for Olmert holding a leadership contest for the Kadima party by September. (BBC News)