Portal:Current events/2012 June 18

June 18, 2012 (Monday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Arab Spring:
- 2011–2012 Yemeni revolution: Yemeni Army commander General Salem Ali Qatan is killed in a suicide attack in the port city of Aden by a man wearing an explosives belt. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- Political uncertainty continues in Egypt. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
At least two people are killed in an attack on the border between Israel and Egypt. (Reuters via MSNBC) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
A suicide attack kills at least fifteen people and wounds forty people at a Shia funeral in Baquba, north of Baghdad.(BBC)
A bomb explodes near a university bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta killing at least two students and injuring more than 35 others. (AFP via Herald-Sun)
Three men in Afghan police uniform kill a NATO soldier in eastern Afghanistan.(BBC)

Arts and culture

It is disclosed that Jack Osbourne has the incurable neurological condition multiple sclerosis (MS). (BBC)
The music world expresses shock at the news of Scott Johnson's death ahead of a Radiohead concert in Canada. (BBC)

Business and economy

Australian newspaper publisher Fairfax Media announces restructuring plans which will lead to a cut of 1900 jobs. (The Australian)
The largest stockholder of the London-based telecommunications firm Vodafone, institutional investor Orbis, ends its opposition to a planned acquisition by Vodafone of Cable & Wireless Worldwide; the deal now seems certain to go through. (Reuters)

International relations

A new round of talks on nuclear power between Iran and six world powers opens in Moscow. (BBC)
Aung San Suu Kyi is due in Ireland. (RTE)
2012 G-20 Mexico summit:
- The 2012 G-20 summit opens in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, with the Eurozone crisis high on the agenda. (BBC)
United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discuss the uprising in Syria, Iran, and trade at the summit. (CNN)

Law and crime

Rwanda's "gacaca courts", set up to try those responsible for playing a role in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, finish their work. (UPI)
Former American Major League Baseball player Roger Clemens is acquitted on all charges in a perjury trial. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

Science

Sport

UEFA Euro 2012:
- Italy trash ten-man Ireland to go through to the quarter-finals, with Ireland on their worst run for more than 40 years. (BBC) (RTE)
- UEFA fines and bans Nicklas Bendtner of Denmark for one game after showing boxer shorts with a brand name on it against Portugal. Bendtner says: "I didn't know I was breaking any rules". (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
Next season's soccer fixtures:
- Premier League fixtures are announced, with champions Manchester City kicking off at home against newly promoted Southampton. (BBC)
- Rangers, set to be liquidated, do not appear on the Scottish Premier League fixture list and are instead replaced by a mysterious entity known as "Club 12". (BBC)
British police investigate tennis player David Nalbandian after yesterday's disqualification from the final of the 2012 AEGON Championships over kicking an advertising board into the left shin of a line judge, seriously injuring him; his opponent, Marin Čilić, who was trailing Nalbandian at the time, was awarded the title and Nalbandian lost the prize money he would have received for finishing as runner-up. (BBC)