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Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo (pictured) is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
In basketball, the Miami Heat defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder to win the NBA championship.
About 90 people are missing after a boat carrying more than 200 people capsizes in the Indian Ocean between Java and Christmas Island.
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan following the disqualification of Yousaf Raza Gillani.
The 7th G-20 summit is held in Los Cabos, Mexico.

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June 23, 2012 (Saturday)

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International relations

The United Nations sustainable development summit ends in Brazil with a warning on corporate power. (BBC)

Law and crime

After a five-day trial in the High Court, 27-year-old assistant tutor Luke Cooper, who is completing a PhD in international relations at the University of Sussex, is awarded £35,000 over a front page Evening Standard article and £25,000 over a follow-up piece in the Daily Mail. These articles threatened his future academic prospects and left his reputation "as badly trashed" as the Millbank Tower during the November 2010 march against government cuts. (Press Association)

Politics and elections

Voters in Papua New Guinea start going to the polls for a general election. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Science and technology

Google honours Alan Turing, the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, with a Google doodle on the occasion of his 100th birthday. (The Guardian)

June 23, 2012 Wikinews articles

Basketball Australia announces final Olympic teams for the Opals and Boomers

June 22, 2012 (Friday)

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Syrian uprising:
- The Syrian military shoots down a Turkish F-4, shortly after taking off from an airbase in Malatya province. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- The Syria military confirms that it shot down the plane and claims that it was in its airspace. (BBC) (Reuters via MSNBC)
- 26 people believed to belong to the pro-government armed group Shabiha are killed in northern Aleppo Governorate. (Al Jazeera)
- Saudi Arabia announces it plans to pay salaries of the Free Syria Army, in an attempt to encourage more defections from Assad's forces. (The Guardian)
Protests against austerity spread through Khartoum, with security forces breaking them up. (Al Jazeera)
Afghan hotel attack:
- The Afghan Taliban attacks a popular hotel on the outskirts of Kabul Province. (New York Times)
- An Afghan National Police officer is killed in fighting to regain control of the hotel as well as three security guards, four or five militants and at least 17 civilians. (CNN) (RTT)
- Twelve hours later, Afghan forces successfully end the attack. (BBC)
At least 14 people are killed and 106 others wounded in two successive bombings at a popular market on the northern outskirts of Baghdad. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

Carol Ann Duffy, Jeanette Winterson, Simon Armitage, Melvin Burgess and the creator of Coronation Street are among signatories calling for the destruction of books to stop in Manchester. (The Guardian)
Software developer Tim Bray proposes a new HTTP status code inspired by Fahrenheit 451, the famous novel by the recently deceased Ray Bradbury. (The Guardian)
Thousands of students in rebel Islamist-controlled northern Mali leave schools after the imposition of Sharia law. (IRIN)
Torrential rain causes chaos at the Isle of Wight music festival. (The Guardian)

Business and economics

The Philippines lends the International Monetary Fund $1 billion. (GMA News) (ABS-CBN News) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Wells Fargo plans to move jobs to India and the Philippines. (Reuters)

International relations

South China Sea dispute:
- China criticises Vietnam for passing a law that claims sovereignty of the Spratly Islands. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- China asks the Philippines to refrain from "influencing public opinion" in their dispute over the Scarborough Shoal. (Philippine Inquirer)

Law and crime

Ugandan ethics minister Simon Lokodo signs a government statement saying that it does not discriminate against homosexuals and that they are free to meet. (IOL)
Khilal Mamedov, a prominent Azeri human rights activist and journalist, is arrested on suspicion of drug possession, a move a fellow rights watchdog says is politically motivated. (MSNBC)
Looting occurs near the Palace of the President of Bolivia Evo Morales as police mutiny over low wages. (France 24)
Jerry Sandusky, former American football coach at Pennsylvania State University, is convicted on 45 charges of child sex abuse. (AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Politics and elections

Protests over pay by police officers in Boliva spread; a police building is ransacked while president Evo Morales offers concessions. (BBC) (Latin American Herald Tribune)
Teachers in Swaziland go on an open-ended strike in a dispute over pay. (IOL)
The Senate votes to impeach the President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo with former Vice President Federico Franco sworn in as the new president. (BBC), (AP via Yahoo News)
Egypt
- Thousands of Egyptians crowd Cairo's Tahrir Square ahead of the announcement of the results of the presidential election. (Al Jazeera)
- Possibly unreliable reports claim that Ahmed Shafiq will be named the president of Egypt on 24 June 2012. (AhramOnline) (CNN)
The ruling Pakistan People's Party nominates Raja Pervez Ashraf to replace Yousuf Raza Gilani after a judge orders the arrest of its first choice candidate Makhdoom Shahabuddin for alleged illegal importation of drugs. (BBC)

Sports

UEFA Euro 2012:
- Germany defeat Greece 4–2 in their quarter-final meeting, with goals from Philipp Lahm, Sami Khedira, Miroslav Klose and Marco Reus sending the Greeks to a Euro exit at the PGE Arena in Gdańsk. (TSN)
- Milan Baroš announces his retirement from international football after the Czech Republic's exit to Portugal at the quarter-final stage yesterday; Baroš was top scorer at the 2004 tournament. (BBC)

June 22, 2012 Wikinews articles

June 21, 2012 (Thursday)

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Arab Spring:
- Syrian uprising: The pilot of a Syrian MiG 21 fighter plane defects to Jordan after landing in a military air base in northern Jordan. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, ousted from power in last year's revolution, is reported to be "clinging to life" as his deterioration adds further to Egyptian uncertainty. (The Independent) (IBN Live)
- Human Rights Watch expresses concern over the Egyptian military's level of commitment to handing over power to civilian rule. (Al Jazeera)
War on Drugs:
- Mexican Drug War: Mexican marines detain Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, the son of Joaquín Guzmán Loera (alias El Chapo), Mexico's most-wanted drug lord in the western state of Jalisco. (The Washington Post)
- The Uruguayan government announces plans to start selling marijuana in limited amounts to registered users. (RT)
In Afghanistan, Taliban soldiers invade a hotel in Kabul, kill guests, and hold some hostages. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

Arts and culture

U.S. artist LeRoy Neiman, one of the world's most commercially successful contemporary artists and an official painter of five Olympiads famed for his instant renditions of sporting action, dies in New York. (BBC)
A Lucian Freud self portrait painted on an egg shell is sold at auction to a private collector for £27,000. (BBC)

Business and economics

Vassilis Rapanos, chairman of Greece's largest private bank, is named finance minister. (RTE)
Air France announces its decision to cut just under 10% of the total workforce (more than 5,000 jobs) by the end of next year in an attempt to restore profitability. (BBC)
Moody's downgrades the credit rating of 15 major world banks: UK (Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC), US (Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan), Rest of world (Credit Suisse, UBS, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Morgan Stanley). (CNBC) (BBC)
Avianca, Copa Airlines and TACA Airlines join Star Alliance, becoming the 26th, 27th and 28th member airlines. This will prompt TAM Airlines to transfer to Oneworld in the foreseeable future (Fox Business)
The US Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 251 points on the back of weak economic data and poor news from the Eurozone. (CNBC)

Disasters

An Indonesian Air Force Fokker 27 crashes in a residential complex in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, killing at least six people. (BBC)
A boat carrying up to 200 asylum seekers capsizes north of Christmas Island, between Indonesia and Australia with 110 survivors rescued. (BBC) (AAP via Brisbane Times)

International relations

President of Ecuador Rafael Correa decides on the issue of granting asylum to WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange as Assange remains in the Ecuadorian embassy of London, risking arrest by the British authorities. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

Oakland-based group Courage to Resist asks participants in the 42nd annual Pride parade this Sunday to march in celebration of the imprisoned U.S. serviceman Bradley Manning, imprisoned by the U.S. government for alleged leaking of classified information into the public domain. (San Francisco Examiner)
A court in Jakarta sentences Umar Patek to 20 years' imprisonment for Patek's involvement in the October 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
The father of previous President of Chile Michelle Bachelet was probably tortured to death after the 1973 coup led by Augusto Pinochet, a judge says. (BBC)
Penn State sex abuse scandal:
- The adopted son of former football coach Jerry Sandusky says that Sandusky molested him. (CNN)
- The jury begins deliberations in the trial. (CNN)

Politics and elections

John Bryson resigns as United States Secretary of Commerce following a seizure that led to two car accidents. (Politico)
President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo faces impeachment. (BBC)

Sport

UEFA Euro 2012:
- Cristiano Ronaldo scores the match-winning goal as Portugal defeat the Czech Republic and continue into the semi-finals. (BBC)
- Reports are made of a France dressing room bust-up involving at least two separate incidents after the team's defeat to Sweden, including a "shouting match" between Alou Diarra and Samir Nasri, followed by an ugly exchange between Laurent Blanc and Hatem Ben Arfa. (New York Daily News)
In American basketball, the Miami Heat wins the 2012 NBA Finals defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder four games to one. LeBron James wins the NBA Finals MVP award. (ESPN) (Wall Street Journal)

June 21, 2012 Wikinews articles

Kate Lundy and Tony Abbott assist in Olympic dreams with Gymnastics Australia's artistic gymnastics team announcement

June 20, 2012 (Wednesday)

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A gunman is detained after seizing four hostages at the Crédit Industriel et Commercial bank in the southern French city of Toulouse, the same city where Mohammed Merah shot dead five people in March. (BBC)
Rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip are followed by Israeli airstrikes in response, resulting in at least one death. (AP via The Washington Post) (Al Jazeera)
Turkey's military confirms it has carried out strikes on Kurdish rebel targets inside Iraq. (BBC)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that at least 20 Syrian Army soldiers and five rebels are killed in heavy fighting near Latakia district. (Al Jazeera)
Tribal clashes in western Libya lead to 105 people dead and some 500 injured. (BBC)

Business and economics

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch launches a surprise takeover bid for billionaire James Packer's stake in Consolidated Media Holdings, a major stakeholder of Foxtel and Fox Sports Australia. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Larry Ellison, the American CEO of Oracle Corp, agrees to buy 98 per cent of the Hawaiian island of Lanai. (AP via The Sydney Morning Herald)

International relations

The United States Congress suggests to extend its military presence in Kuwait. (Al Jazeera)
Fund for Peace releases its 2012 Failed States Index, with Libya, Japan, and Syria scoring the largest increases since the previous study. (Fund for Peace)

Law and crime

The former Prime Minister of Romania, Adrian Năstase, narrowly survives a suicide attempt by gunshot to the throat following a controversial court decision sentencing him to two years in jail. (BBC)

Politics and elections

In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, ousted from power in last year's revolution, is reported to in a coma and has been taken off life support. (BBC)
The Supreme Elections Commission in Egypt announces that the results of the presidential election are not going to be released on Thursday due to complaints by rival candidates. (USA Today)
Operation Fast and Furious:
- The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform cites the Attorney-General Eric Holder for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with an investigation into Operation "Fast and Furious". (The Washington Post)
- President Barack Obama invokes executive privilege on documents associated with Fast and Furious following a request by the House Oversight Committee. (The Washington Post)

Sport

UEFA Euro 2012:
- UEFA Euro 2012's off-day is dominated by the fall-out of yesterday's ghost goal scored by Ukraine against England, with John Terry hooking the ball from behind the goal line after a shot by Marko Dević under the eyes of the additional assistant beside the goal. (The Daily Telegraph) (Reuters via Yahoo!)
- As Ukrainian media criticise the incident and denial of at least a point to Ukraine, UEFA's chief refereeing officer Pierluigi Collina says the goal should have been given. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Italy coach Cesare Prandelli thanks UEFA president Michel Platini after his side secured qualification for the quarter-finals, thanks in part to the extra officials beside the goal. (The Daily Telegraph)

June 20, 2012 Wikinews articles

Australian water polo players Zagame and Rippon whooping it up

June 19, 2012 (Tuesday)

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Arab Spring:
- post-Mubarak Egypt:
  - Tens of thousands of people converge on Cairo's Tahrir Square to demonstrate against Egypt's military rulers, who have seized power following the ousting from power of Hosni Mubarak in last year's revolution. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
  - Hosni Mubarak suffers a stroke in prison and is reportedly "clinically dead", though several Egyptian officials refute the announcement made by the state agency. (The Daily Telegraph) (CNN) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- Syrian uprising: A ship carrying military helicopters and missiles from Russia to Syria is halted and turned back off the coast of Scotland after its insurance coverage is cancelled. (MSNBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
Palestinian militants fire a barrage of rockets into southern Israel following an Israel Air Force strike that killed two Islamic Jihad gunmen; IAF strikes at militant targets in Gaza have killed six Palestinians since yesterday. (Al Jazeera) (The Jerusalem Post) (Ynet News)
Striking miners and riot police clash in northern Spain as Mariano Rajoy's austerity drive causes escalating violence. (BBC)
Palestinian footballer Mahmoud Sarsak, on hunger strike over his detention without charge for three years in an Israeli jail, agrees to resume eating if released from captivity. (BBC)
At least seven people and 15 members of the Turkish Army are killed in a Kurdistan Workers' Party ambush in the Yüksekova district near the border with Iraq and Iran. (BBC)

Business and economics

Ryanair tries to buy Aer Lingus. (BBC)

International relations

A United Nations investigator calls on the United States to justify its increasing use of drones against al-Qaeda and Taliban targets. (Reuters)
Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange takes refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual misconduct. (Al Jazeera) (USA Today)
2012 G-20 Mexico summit: UK prime minister David Cameron confronts Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner over a letter she sent to him regarding the Falklands Islands. (BBC)

Law and crime

The Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualifies prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani from holding office after Gillani was found guilty in a contempt-of-court case on April 26. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
A Saudi man is beheaded on charges of sorcery and witchcraft in Najran Province of Saudi Arabia. (BBC)

Politics and elections

Antonis Samaras, leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, continues to negotiate with political rivals to form a coalition government, as Greece struggles to overcome its economic crisis. (The New York Times)

Sport

UEFA Euro 2012:
- The debate surrounding goal-line technology resurfaces as co-hosts Ukraine are denied an apparent goal in controversial circumstances against England, with John Terry hooking the ball from behind the goal line after a shot by Marko Dević under the eyes of the fifth official beside the goal. Wayne Rooney's header in the second half carries England through at the Donbass Arena in Donetsk. (The Daily Telegraph) (Bleacher Report) (Reuters via Yahoo!) (The Washington Post) (Daily Mail)
- Andriy Shevchenko announces his intention to retire from the national side after that defeat. (Yahoo!)
- Sweden sweep aside France with ease at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, with goals from Zlatan Ibrahimović and Sebastian Larsson subjecting the French to their first defeat in 24 games. (Sky Sports)

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June 18, 2012 (Monday)

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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

Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz is nominated as heir apparent of Saudi Arabia. (BBC)

Science

Blue Gene/Q becomes the world's fastest supercomputer. (TOP500)

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)

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June 17, 2012 (Sunday)

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Multiple bombings kill at least 12 people in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
Google reveals it has removed so-called 'terrorism videos' from the web at the request of governments, as well as blocking more than 100 YouTube videos which allegedly insult the Thai monarchy. (BBC)

Disasters

A fire breaks out in a prison in the southeast Turkish province of Şanlıurfa, killing 13 prisoners. (BBC)

Law and crime

Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers in March 1991 later led to riots in April 1992, is found dead at the bottom of a swimming pool in Rialto, California. (BBC) (CNN) (Al Jazeera)
Two Palestinians who attempt to rob an Israeli truck driver are shot dead in self defense near Hebron in the West Bank. (BBC) (Ynet)

Politics and elections

Voters in Greece go to the polls for a second legislative election after the first election on May 6 failed to form a coalition government. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (CNN)
Voters in Egypt go to the polls for a second day to vote in the second round of a presidential election, with former prime minister Ahmed Shafik and Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party both competing for the presidency. (BBC)
Voters in France go to the polls for legislative election with the Socialist Party winning a majority. (AP via Idaho Press-Tribune)

Sport

UEFA opens disciplinary proceedings against The Football Association after England fans attempted to invade the pitch during their game with Sweden in Kiev. (BBC) (UEFA)
In tennis, David Nalbandian is disqualified from the final of the 2012 AEGON Championships after 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, is awarded the title and Nalbandian stands to lose the prize money he would have received for finishing as runner-up. (BBC) (Sky Sports)
In golf, American Webb Simpson wins the U.S. Open. (NBC Sports)

June 17, 2012 Wikinews articles

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