Portal:Current events/2014 June 30
June 30, 2014 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Post-coup unrest in Egypt
- A police officer is killed and several others injured in a small explosion near the presidential palace in Cairo. A second officer is killed while defusing another bomb at the same site. (Reuters) (The Voice of Russia)
- South Thailand insurgency
- A group of gunmen open fire at a mosque in the Panare district in Pattani province in Thailand, resulting in at least one death. (AP via Myrtle Beach Online)[permanent dead link]
- 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
- A cameraman from Russia's Channel One dies after being shot in Donetsk. (RT)
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- At least 11 rockets are fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip causing light damage to a house. (Jerusalem Post)
- War in North-West Pakistan
- The Pakistan Army begins a ground offensive against militants in the town of Miramshah in North Waziristan. (AP via Time)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- The bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers, including one with dual American citizenship, are found partially buried near Hebron on the West Bank. Shin Bet determined they were murdered shortly after being kidnapped, and is searching for two Hamas kidnappers and accomplices.(ABC News America) (Jerusalem Post)
- Mexican Drug War
- Mexican Army soldiers kill 22 criminals in a shootout at a warehouse in the town of Tlatlaya in central Mexico. (AP)
Arts and culture
- Yosemite National Park commemorates the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln signing into law the Yosemite Grant Act, establishing Yosemite as a federally-protected area. (KGO)[permanent dead link]
Law and crime
- The People's Republic of China jails 113 people in Xinjiang autonomous region for terrorism and other offences. (AP)
- North Korea says it will put on trial two American tourists, Jeffrey Fowle and Michael Miller, for crimes against the state. (Reuters)
- Philippines Senator Jinggoy Estrada is arrested for alleged corruption. (AP via BND)
- Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted in London, England, of 12 counts of indecent assault against young girls between 1968 and 1986. The 84-year-old is to be sentenced on Friday 4 July. (ABC News Australia)