Portal:Current events/2010 June 13

June 13, 2010 (Sunday)

Egyptian security forces beat protesters at a demonstration against human rights abuses in Egypt and an incident of police brutality that resulted in the death of a young man a week ago. (AP) (Los Angeles Times)
10 police were killed in an attack on Sunday on an outpost in Dai Kundi province in central Afghanistan. (TVNZ)
An investigation by The Sunday Times alleges that Japan has bribed smaller nations in exchange for their vote to resume whaling at the International Whaling Commission. (The Sunday Times)
A plane carrying 16 Al Jazeera Sports broadcast staff to the 2010 FIFA World Cup game between Algeria and Slovenia in Polokwane made an emergency landing at Lanseria International Airport following the jamming of the aircraft's landing gear. Lanseria International Airport is shut down. (Reuters Africa) (AFP) (Herald Sun) (IOL)
2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis:
- Tensions remain high in Kyrgyzstan, with police patrolling the streets and special forces standing guard in the city of Osh and Jalal-Abad, after ethnic clashes left more than 100 people dead and about 1,400 others injured since fighting broke out Thursday night. (TVNZ) (CNN) (Aljazeera)
- 150 paratroopers from Russia arrived to Kant, Kyrgyzstan on Sunday. (Xinhua) (swissinfo) (trtenglish) (presstv.ir)
- Tens of thousands of people flee across the border into Uzbekistan. (BBC)
- 3 Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft land at Kant Air Base in Kyrgyzstan, after departing from Ramenskoye Airport, located near Moscow. (24)
5 people have died and dozens been injured in a stampede at a rally in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. (BBC) (aajmedia)
At least two people are killed and 20 injured in a stampede at a peace concert in Côte d'Ivoire. (BBC) (Philippine Inquirer)
South African police shoot a lachrymatory agent at hundreds of 2010 FIFA World Cup stewards at pay cut protests in Durban. (BBC)
Hezbollah warns Israel on gas fields being claimed by both Israel and Lebanon. (presstv.ir)(Ynet)(VJ)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Arriving in the Gaza Strip for the first time since Israel blockaded it in 2006, Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, calls for the blockade to be ended. (Aljazeera) (Xinhua) (Voice of America)
- United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice tells Fox News that Israel is capable of conducting a credible investigation into the fatal Gaza flotilla raid on its own terms. (Ynetnews)
- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak cancels an official two-day trip to France at short notice, while several French members of the flotilla and three MPs plan to file a lawsuit against him in France and at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. (Ynetnews) (AP) (The Jerusalem Post)
- Israel sets up its own internal "independent public commission" into its recent deadly raid on the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla. Yaakov Turkel is chair, while two foreign observers are Ken Watkin and David Trimble, Baron Trimble. (BBC) (The News International) (Aljazeera)
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is appointed by President Ivan Gašparovič to form a new government. (Xinhua)
Belgian general election, 2010:
- The Belgian elections take place amid a possibility of partition. (Xinhua)
- The N-VA wins. (Aljazeera)
Venezuelan authorities issue an arrest warrant for the head of Globovisión, the country's only remaining independent television station which criticises President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. (Aljazeera)
An explosion injures 24 people at a rally opposed to a new draft constitution in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. (BBC) (Capital FM)
Fighting between government troops and police in Somalia leaves at least 13 people dead and 14 injured in the capital Mogadishu. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters Africa)
Two people are killed and six others are wounded during four explosions close to the entrance of the Iraqi central bank building in downtown Baghdad. (Xinhua)
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake west of India's Nicobar Islands causes tremors felt along India's eastern seaboard and triggers a tsunami watch, which is later cancelled. (AFP) (NDTV)
FIFA says it will assist Al Jazeera Sports in its investigation of the 2010 FIFA World Cup signal sabotage. (Business Week) (Hindustan Times) (The Zimbabwean)
Wen Jiabao, the Premier of the People's Republic of China and Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan agree to establish a Prime Ministerial hotline between the two heads of government. (Xinhua)
Joran Van der Sloot said he'll reveal the location of U.S teen Natalee Holloway's body to the investigators if authorities transfer him to an Aruban jail from his current jail in Peru. (Fox News)
A London School of Economics report finds that Pakistan's largest intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, is secretly funding and training the Afghan Taliban. (BBC)
South Korea's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Lee Sang-eui offers to retire over the recent warship sinking. (Xinhua)
Britain's most senior military officer, Sir Jock Stirrup, agrees to leave before the end of his term in April 2011, according to the country's Defence Secretary Liam Fox. (BBC) (The Irish Times) (Xinhua)
Freed Swiss businessman Max Göldi is due to leave Libya. (Xinhua)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft returns to earth near Woomera in northwest South Australia. (ABC Australia)
Official documents say the United Kingdom's government considered denying the Korea DPR national football team visas to attend the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England for fear of "diplomatic shockwaves" brought on by Communism. (BBC) (AFP) (The Belfast Telegraph) (RTHK)