Portal:Current events/2010 June 14

June 14, 2010 (Monday)

The Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership is awarded to no one for a second consecutive year. (Aljazeera)
Fighting between Somali government troops and local police has killed at least 13 people in Mogadishu and gunmen killed a judiciary official of the semi-autonomous Puntland region in the Hamarjajab district. (Arab News)
At least 28 prisoners are killed in a clash between rival gangs in Sinaloa, Mexico. (Asiaone) (BBC) (newser)
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland rules that Romanian footballer Adrian Mutu has lost his final appeal in a five-year legal battle meaning he has to pay a record €17 million in damages for breaching his contract. (The Guardian) (BBC) (AsiaOne) (The Hindu) (CNN)
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson receives a copy of the Saville Inquiry, the longest and most expensive public inquiry in British history, ahead of its official launch by David Cameron tomorrow. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ)
Amidst growing labour unrest in China, Premier Wen Jiabao visits migrant workers at a Beijing construction site and calls for better treatment for the country's migrant workers. (Straits Times) (Xinhua)
Egypt and Al Jazeera Sports clash over claims of interference in the transmission of 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer matches. (Reuters Africa)
A California judge refuses to suspend the medical licence of Conrad Murray, the doctor charged in connection with Michael Jackson's death. (AP via LA.com)^{[permanent dead link]} (newser)
At least 35 people are feared drowned and 50 people disappear after a boat capsizes on the Ganges River in northern India. (AP via CT Now) (Xinhua)
At least 14 people are killed and at least 30 are injured when a tourist bus disappears over the edge of a ravine in the Philippines. (Xinhua)
10 police are killed and several others are wounded in an ambush by drug hitmen in Zitácuaro Michoacán. (The Star) (AP) (The Australian) (Los Angeles Times)
Colombian security forces rescue two senior police officers and a soldier held hostage since 1 November 1998, among the longest-held captives; a fourth hostage is later rescued. (BBC) (France24)^{[permanent dead link]} (Los Angeles Times) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Aljazeera) (BBC)
Ireland's Fine Gael Deputy Leader and Finance Spokesperson Richard Bruton, brother of former Taoiseach John Bruton, is sacked after publicly declaring his lack of confidence in Fine Gael's leader Enda Kenny. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (Press Association)
Churches in Kenya accuse the government of being behind a grenade attack at a rally opposed to a draft constitution which killed six people. (BBC) (AP) (Daily Nation)
A team of American geologists and Pentagon officials say they have discovered vast mineral wealth, including iron, gold and lithium, estimated to be worth nearly US$1 trillion, in Afghanistan, though other senior officials say this has been known since at least the 1970s. (CBS News) (Politico) (The Guardian) (AP)
The arrest of several army officers in Guinea is not linked to elections, according to the country's army chief. (BBC)
The Iraqi Council of Representatives convenes in Baghdad three months after inconclusive elections. (AFP via Google News)
Polish authorities arrest a suspected Israeli agent in connection with the murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai in January. (BBC)
Lanseria International Airport reopens after the removal of the wreckage of yesterday's emergency landing involving mainly Al Jazeera Sports broadcast staff on their way to cover the 2010 FIFA World Cup game between Algeria and Slovenia in Polokwane. (IOL)
New files on American politician Ted Kennedy, which were previously secret, are released. (BBC)
2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis and 2010 South Kyrgyzstan riots:
- Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expresses "alarm" at events in Kyrgyzstan. (BBC)
- Camps are quickly set up along the Kyrgyzstan border for the tens of thousands of people fleeing the riots in Kyrgyzstan. (Aljazeera)
- Zhalalidin Salakhuddinov, the leader of the Uzbek National Center, claims that 200 Uzbeks have died in the fighting. (AP via Google News)
- Minority Uzbeks accuse the majority Kyrgyz of carrying out genocide in the southern cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad. (Reuters)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) issues a report criticizing Israel and calling on it to lift the blockade. (CNN) (BBC)
- Israel acknowledges that Uri Brodsky, a citizen arrested in Poland and charged with involvement in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, is a "businessman" but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to comment on suggestions the country is trying to stop his extradition to Germany amid calls by ministers for him to be extradited to Israel. (The Daily Telegraph)
- An Israeli Police officer is killed and two others wounded in a shooting near Hebron. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claims responsibility, and claims it is retaliation for the Gaza flotilla raid. (The Jerusalem Post)
- The European Union presses Israel to lift its blockade of Gaza, as EU members meet in Luxembourg to discuss ways that Europe could renew its role in helping supervise Gaza's border crossings. (Yahoo! News)
- Two Iranian aid ships begin departing for Gaza, one from Khorramshahr and one from Istanbul. Egypt grants permission for 70 Iranian MPs to visit Gaza. (Ynetnews) (The Jerusalem Post)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces the 10th Annual Trafficking in Persons Report. (US Department of State)
NCAA (U.S. college) conference realignment:
- The University of Texas at Austin, seen as the key to the survival of a 10-team Big 12 Conference in the wake of the loss of Colorado to the Pacific-10 Conference and Nebraska to the Big Ten Conference, announces it will turn down an invitation from the Pac-10 and remain in the Big 12. Shortly after Texas' announcement, four other Texas and Oklahoma schools targeted by the Pac-10 pledge themselves to the Big 12. (ESPN)