Portal:Current events/2010 July 4

July 4, 2010 (Sunday)

Current events

Australia celebrates indigenous culture with NAIDOC Week with the 2010 theme 'Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way'.(ABC)(NAIDOC)

Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop death by stoning for an Iranian woman convicted of adultery. (CNN)
Lebanese Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah dies suddenly in Beirut. (Aljazeera) (CNN) (Press TV) (RTÉ) (Xinhua)
At least 15 people are killed and 48 are injured after the driver of a runaway bus smashes into a concrete wall in the Philippines. (BBC) (People's Daily) (news.com.au) (The Times of India)
At least four people are killed and dozens of others are wounded in a bombing at Ramadi's provincial government building. (Aljazeera)
Women and children march towards Mahmoud al-Zahar's house in Gaza to hand him a letter calling on Hamas to insist on the release of 1,000 Israeli-held Palestinian prisoners during their talks with Israel. (Xinhua)
President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes his last tour of Africa as president. (BBC)
David Petraeus formally takes command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. (CBC),(BBC)
Iran passes on to Tehran's Swiss embassy what it describes as evidence proving that the United States Central Intelligence Agency abducted Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri. (Aljazeera)
Japan's competitive eating champion Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi is arrested after disrupting the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City, United States. (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Politics and Elections

Polish presidential election, 2010
- Polish voters head to the polls for the second round of presidential voting.
- Jarosław Kaczyński initially concedes defeat after exit polls show Bronisław Komorowski winning, but later withdraws his concession as exit polls show the result narrowing. (BBC)
Mexican gubernatorial elections, 2010
- Voters in 14 Mexican states vote to elect governors and mayors. (Aljazeera) (BBC) (Sky News)
- Exit polls show the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party winning in 8 of the 14 states, with a strong showing in mayoral elections. BBC News
In a referendum, voters in the German state of Bavaria vote to ban smoking at all pubs and restaurants. (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Sports