Portal:Current events/2014 June 7
June 7, 2014 (Saturday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant gunmen storm the campus of the University of Anbar, killing three guards and holding dozens of students hostage before withdrawing. (Sky News) (AP)
- The dead bodies of 21 policemen who were kidnapped a day before by militants are recovered in Mosul, Iraq. (IANS via Biharprabha)
- At least 52 people are dead following a series of bombings in Baghdad. (AP via Business Week)
- At least 37 people are killed in an attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province. (Sky News)
Disasters and accidents
- Flash flooding in Afghanistan's Baghlan province kills at least 65 people and forces thousands of people to relocate. (BBC News)
- Actor/comedian Tracy Morgan is taken to ICU at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital following a six-vehicle chain-reaction crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed friend & fellow comedian James McNair. (CNN)
Law and crime
- Ten supporters of former President of Egypt Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement are sentenced to death in absentia for allegedly inciting violence and blocking a road last July. (AP via New Zealand Herald)
- Altaf Hussain, the exiled founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Pakistan, is released in London on money laundering charges. (ABC Australia and AFP)
- Dennis Marx of the sovereign citizen movement opened fire with an assault rifle outside a Georgia courthouse Friday in an attempt to take hostages, wounded a deputy before he was killed in a shootout with officers.(Fox News)
Politics and elections
- Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as the President of Ukraine as the Pro-Russian separatist conflict continues. (NDTV) (BBC News)
- Binyamin Ben-Eliezer of the Israeli Labor Party withdraws from the presidential election on 10 June as a result of a graft probe. (AP via Washington Post)
- UK Education Secretary Michael Gove apologises to Prime Minister David Cameron over a row with Home Secretary Theresa May about how to tackle Islamic extremism following recent revelations about a Muslim plot to take over schools in Birmingham. (BBC News)
Sports
- Horse racing:
- Australia wins the Derby Stakes. Trainer Aidan O'Brien becomes the first trainer to win the Derby for three successive years. (BBC)
- Tonalist, ridden by Joel Rosario, wins the 2014 Belmont Stakes, denying California Chrome the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. (TheWrap)
- In tennis, Maria Sharapova of Russia wins her second title in the French Open women's singles defeating Simona Halep of Romania 6-4, 6-7, 6-4. (The Telegraph)
- In hurling, Kilkenny and Offaly meet at Nowlan Park in the opening round of the Leinster Championship, the first time a Championship fixture is broadcast live to a UK-wide audience on Sky Sports. (The Irish Times) (The Banter)