Portal:Current events/2011 June 14

June 14, 2011 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2011 Syrian uprising:
- Security forces widen an operation in the north of the country as part of a crackdown on protests. (Al Jazeera)
Iraq War:
- Time reports that a Federal Grand Jury is investigating claims of war crimes and torture by the US Central Intelligence Agency at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. (Time Magazine)
- A series of attacks on the town of Baqubah result in at least seven deaths and 17 injuries. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Canada recognises the rebel National Transitional Council of Libya as the country's legitimate government with the Canadian House of Commons voting to extend its mission in Libya by three and a half months. (CBC), (CBC)
Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence has arrested Central Intelligence Agency informants who contributed to the raid on Osama bin Laden. (New York Times)

Arts and culture

A new diary by Che Guevara of his time fighting in the Cuban Revolution between 1956 and 1958 is published. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

Gaza's unemployment rate was among the world's highest, at 45.2% in late 2010 according to the UN. (BBC)
Air Canada services face disruption as customer service agents affiliated with the Canadian Auto Workers start a strike. (Financial Post)

Disasters

Airspace restrictions are in place in East Africa after the Nabro Volcano erupts in Eritrea. (Al Jazeera)
An elderly man dies following aftershocks to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, with additional buildings to be demolished. (New Zealand Herald), (TV New Zealand)
At least two people die as a building collapses in Nairobi, Kenya. (Capital FM)
The first child dies during the 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany with a total of 36 deaths in Germany and one in Sweden. (Xinhua)
Arizona fires
- Small communities near the US town of Sierra Vista, Arizona are evacuated due to a wildfire that started in Coronado National Memorial. (Arizona Daily Star)
- The Wallow Fire becomes the largest wildfire in Arizona history. (Incident Information)

International relations

The United Nations declares Nepal free of land mine fields after the last remaining land mine is destroyed. (AP)
The United States issues a terrorist-related travel warning for the Philippines. (CNN)

Law and crime

In the first case of its kind to be heard in the United Kingdom, a former juror who admitted contacting a defendant via Facebook has been convicted of contempt of court. (BBC)
Another land campaigner is shot dead in Brazil's Amazon basin with five activists shot dead in the past month. (BBC)

Politics

British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced major changes to plans for reforms of the NHS in England saying that the government has made mistakes, but he insists it has not made "a humiliating U-turn". (BBC)
Members of the United Kingdom's two main teaching unions, the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers have voted to take industrial action over changes to their pensions. They are first expected to walk out on 30 June. Other public sector workers may join them on that day. (BBC)