TheIsraeli Defense Forces kill two Palestinians terrorists in Gaza who were attempting to cross the border fence, after an exchange of gunfire. Israel closes four settlements, Route 323 and schools as a result of the incident.(The Jerusalem Post)
The Jerusalem Post reports thatIsraeli soldiers have engaged and killed what they describe as three "terrorists" who had fired Kassam Rockets into Israeli lands. No injuries were reported from the rocket attacks.(The Jerusalem Post)
The head ofGaza emergency services confirms that these threePalestinian bodies were retrieved and brought to a morgue inGaza City.(Aljazeera)
Arts and culture
TheNanjing Metro opens its Line 2, extending its route length from 22km to 85km, and the number of stations from 16 to 57.(Railway Gazette)
TheIranian ambassador inBaghdad says the recent release of two Iranians fromIraqi custody is not an indication of any impeding deal to free three Americans held inTehran on spying charges since their capture in July 2009 while hiking in northern Iraq's mountainousKurdish region.(USA Today)
The United States insists any Afghan peace deal must ensurewomen's rights asAfghanistan prepares to open a peace conference aimed at persuadingTaliban leaders to put down their weapons.(USA Today)
Survivors of theIsraeli assault on theGaza-bound international aid flotilla return to Greece andTurkey, providing the first eyewitness accounts of the attack.(The Guardian)(BBC)
Israel announces it has imprisoned an official figure of 487 of the people it captured in its commando raid on the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla, while 48 others will be officially expelled after being brought into Israel by Israeli authorities yesterday.(The Sydney Morning Herald)(AFP)
Israel'sambassador to Denmark, Arthur Avnon, announces that the Israeli military had received rumours of a report which asserted a link between the flotilla andAl-Qaida.(FOX News)(News24)
Hundreds ofIsraelis gather outside theTurkish embassy inTel Aviv in protest against Turkey's involvement in the Gaza flotilla.(Ynetnews)
Turks protest for a second day, marching in front ofIstanbul's Israeli consulate, and several are arrested inAnkara after encountering police in front of the Israeli Embassy there.(ABC News)
Reports are released regarding the nationalities of those captured after the flotilla raid.(Asia One News)(The Age)
Reports are also released expressing concern for captured international journalists, including those fromAljazeera andAstro Awani, while media organisations are asked to act for the release of all journalists in Israeli custody and to request their freedom to practice their profession without pressure and harassment.(ArabNews)(NDTV)
Turkey calls for sanctions againstIsrael. The United States, a permanent member of theUN Security Council, acts to mitigate the language of the Security Council's draft statement which condemned Israel's action "in the strongest terms", opting instead for one that requests an "impartial" investigation of the deaths and condemns the "acts" that led to it.(The Times)
As climate talks get under way inBonn, Thomas Hale and Scott Moore call for a radical new approach to cuttingemissions that sidesteps intergovernmental deadlock and unites eager players, fromWal-Mart tocity halls.(China Dialogue)
TheIsrael Defense Forces claims that the 10 tonnes of aid delivered in the Free Gaza flotilla was turned back byHamas when delivered to the border atRafah, with Hamas stating that it will only accept the aid if all flotilla activists imprisoned in Israel are freed, and that the aid be delivered by the flotilla organizers.(CNN)
Turkey announces its intention to cut all ties withIsrael unless the dead and captured flotilla activists are returned by the end of the day, and sends doctors to Israel to supervise the treatment of wounded Turkish activists in Israeli hospitals.(Aljazeera)
Israeli-Arab MPHaneen Zoubi, who accompanied the flotilla and was arrested but released before the other activists due to parliamentary immunity, tells a press conference inNazareth thatIsrael intended to kill peace activists as a way to deter future aid convoys and says she witnessed two passengers slowly bleed to death, while Hebrew messages requesting medical assistance for them were ignored.(The National)
IrishTaoiseachBrian Cowen asks that theIsraeli government exercise "absolute restraint" in relation to its dealings with Irish citizens captured in the raid.(RTÉ)
Israel releases all activists captured during theGaza flotilla raid and sends them for deportation as the Attorney General states "keeping them here would do more damage to the country's vital interests than good".(Al Jazeera)(BBC)(The Guardian)
The Government ofKenya announces that 2.3 million bags ofmaize are unfit for human consumption due to contamination with high levels ofaflatoxins, which have killed at least one child.(BBC)
British Airways issues an apology for a photograph in a staff magazine which impliedOsama Bin Laden had a frequent flyer boarding pass for first class.(BBC)
TheIsraeli Foreign Ministry says 527 of the captured activists, as well as the bodies of those killed, have been placed on flights bound forTurkey andGreece: seven more are still in hospital: three other captured activists — one man and two women fromAustralia,Ireland andItaly — remain in Israel "for technical reasons".(New Straits Times)
At least 20 people are killed and 60 injured in heavy fighting between government forces andIslamist militants in the capitalMogadishu.(CNN)(BBC)(Sify)
TheMARS-500 project begins, with six men - three Russians, two Europeans and a Chinese man - entering the sealed facility inMoscow where they will spend 18 months in isolation from the outside world.(BBC)(RIA Novosti)
The earliest surviving completecensus ofIreland is made available online for the first time and reveals details on the early life ofJames Joyce as well as other famous writers and politicians.(The Irish Times)(RTÉ)
Prime Minister of TurkeyRecep Tayyip Erdoğan gives a televised speech in which he states that he does not viewHamas as a terrorist organization, but as "resistance fighters who are struggling to defend their land". Thousands of people rally at a memorial service inIstanbul for one of those killed in the raid.(BBC)
The pro-government militia group ofAhlu Sunnah Waljama (ASW) inSomalia claims to have killed at least 91Islamist fighters and wounded 170 others in Thursday's fierce clashes.(China.org)
AJoint Base Lewis–McChord United States Army soldier is charged with three counts of premeditated murder in connection with the deaths of threeAfghan civilians.(KIRO TV)
41 people have beenkilled in fighting over the past three days inSudan's western region ofDarfur according to a Sudan tribal leader.(AFP)
Anattack of rockets kills six US soldiers and wounds about a dozen others inBaghdad,Iraq. Two more bombs go off elsewhere but no deaths are reported.(Aljazeera)(CNN)
Disasters
A passenger train, with about 60 passengers, travelling betweenGlasgow andObanderails leaving the carriages perched over an embankment.(BBC)
9 passengers are injured and a train carriage left dangling over an embankment after aderailment inScotland.(Sky News)
The number ofmigrant workers who died or were injured atSouth Korea's workplaces has risen over the last three years to reach nearly 14,500.(Yonhap)
International relations
TheCyprus-basedFree Gaza Movement packs up and leaves Cyprus forLondon after the Cypriot government's decision to interfere with and disrupt last week's international aid flotilla.(Xinhua)
22-year-old U.S. Army intelligence analyst, SPC Bradley Manning, is named as the alleged source of the leak of theCollateral murder video, along with theGranai massacre video and other documents, said to be in the possession ofWikileaks.(Wired)(BBC)
A nearly 25-year study published today inPaediatrics concludes that children raised inlesbian households are "psychologically well-adjusted" and have "fewer behavioral problems than their peers".(CNN)
TheUnited States threatensIran with its toughest nuclear sanctions yet, despite the nuclear fuel-swap arrangement Iran made withBrazil andTurkey in May.(BBC)
TheRed Crescent Society, for the first time since December 2008 and in a joint venture betweenIran andTurkey, prepares to send two aid boats of donations and relief workers toGaza.(The Times)
Public sector workers inSpain hold a major strike in protest against a 5% pay cut due to come into effect this month as part of a government austerity package.(CNN)(Financial Times)
Around 60 unsuccessfulIraqi asylum applicants are forcibly and controversially deported toBaghdad from Britain, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.Amnesty International condemns the move as the deportees face violence and mutilation in that city.(Aljazeera)
There is controversy inEgyptian media after an Egyptian member of parliament who was on the Gaza-bound flotilla says that the flotilla participants overpowered three Israeli commandos and took their weapons from them.(Ynetnews)
Kikaya Bin Karubi, the Congolese ambassador to the UK, says Les Resistants Combattants have said Saturday's arson attack on hisLondon home, which destroyed several vehicles and damaged his house, was an act of retaliation for last week's death of leading human rights activistFloribert Chebeya.(BBC)
Thesame-sex couple, who recently came to international attention when they were convicted ofhomosexuality under a British colonial law, tellMalawi'sThe Nation that they have separated and that one of them now lives with a woman.(BBC)
Dozens of workers in China are hurt during labour strikes, with at least 2,000 workers clashing with police in the city ofKunshan.(AFP)(Press TV)(China Daily)
A new in-depth genetic study on Jewish history is published inNature: researchers analysed genetic samples from 14 international Jewish communities and 69 international non-Jewish communities.(BBC)
Researchers find that many species ofsnakes are in decline. The causes are unknown.(BBC)(Biol. Lett.)
TheObama administration announces thatBP will speed up claims payments stemming from themassive Gulf oil spill, to fishermen, property owners and businesspeople who have filed damage claims and are complaining of delays, excessive paperwork and inadequate compensation.(USA Today)(AP)
A new government calculation suggests that an amount of oil equivalent to approximately 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil could have been flowing into theGulf of Mexico before BP capped some of the flow on June 3, an amount that is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day.(The New York Times)
Russia announces plans to sellIranS-300 ground-to-air missiles, stating that the new United Nations sanctions do not cover stationary air defense weaponry.(Ynetnews)
Law and crime
Seven formerBritish soldiers join 98American soldiers to sue American defence firmKBR, who they say exposed them to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals inIraq.(BBC)
Shizuka Kamei, minister in charge of postal reform and financial services, quits after three days in protest over Kan's decision to delay a bill related to the proposed postal service privatisation.(The Australian)
At least 11 civilians and two US soldiers are killed in southernAfghanistan: 9 of the civilian deaths are in a roadside bomb on a minibus inKandahar.(Aljazeera)
Clashes erupt inTehran as some protesters come out to demonstrate and dozens are detained as security forces disperse them.(Ynetnews)(Los Angeles Times)
TheGovernment of Cuba releases imprisoned paraplegic dissidentAriel Sigler on humanitarian grounds and transfers six others to more convenient jails.(BBC)
Tensions remain high inKyrgyzstan, with police patrolling the streets and special forces standing guard in the city ofOsh andJalal-Abad, afterethnic clashes left more than 100 people dead and about 1,400 others injured since fighting broke out Thursday night.(TVNZ)(CNN)(Aljazeera)
Two people are killed and six others are wounded during four explosions close to the entrance of theIraqi central bank building in downtownBaghdad.(Xinhua)
Churches inKenya accuse the government of being behind agrenade attack at a rally opposed to a draft constitution which killed six people.(BBC)(AP)(Daily Nation)
A team of American geologists andPentagon officials say they have discovered vast mineral wealth, includingiron,gold andlithium, estimated to be worth nearly US$1 trillion, inAfghanistan, 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 inGuinea is not linked to elections, according to the country's army chief.(BBC)
TheEuropean Union presses Israel to lift itsblockade of Gaza, as EU members meet inLuxembourg to discuss ways that Europe could renew its role in helping supervise Gaza's border crossings.(Yahoo! News)
56 nations rebukeIran for itshuman rights record, expressing concern over the violent suppression of dissent, detention and executions without due process of law, severe discrimination against women and minorities including people ofBaháʼí faith, and restrictions of expression and religion.(AP)
A US marine convicted in theHamdania incident, one of the worstwar crimes from theIraq War, and sentenced to eleven years in prison in 2006 is released from prison after a military appeals court in Washington decides he did not receive a fair trial. The Navy is appealing that court's decision.(PA)(AP)(Aljazeera)(Gulf News)(The Washington Post)
Militants kill 12 police officers in a string of attacks and six civilians die in bombings inAfghanistan, and a U.S. soldier is killed in a gun battle in eastern Afghanistan in the latest fighting in thewar in Afghanistan.(USA Today)
The trial begins of 33 alleged members of Ergenekon over alleged plans to topple the Turkish government, while groups hold small protests outside the courthouse in their favour.(Aljazeera)(BBC)(euronews)
The report concludes that British paratroopers "lost control", fired the first shot without warning, shot fleeing civilians, and concocted lies to cover up their acts, while the civilians did not throw stones or petrol bombs as a previous inquiry had claimed.(BBC)(The Irish Times)(CNN)(The Wall Street Journal)
Relatives of those shot by theBritish Army gather to hear the results and applaud the findings.(euronews)
Islamist gunmen inSomalia shoot two people dead and detain 10 others who were watching a televisedFIFA World Cup match; a member of one group later said watching the World Cup is anti-Islamic.(CNN)
TheIsraeli Navy prepares to confrontIranian ships heading for Gaza, and says that it will act under the assumption that there are groups of provocateurs aboard any future ships trying to break the Israeli blockade.(Jerusalem Post)
American police inSeattle say they will "review training procedured" following the surfacing of a video which attrated international attention. The video shows a white officer from the Seattle department punching a black teenaged girl in the face when she tried intervene while the officer was confronting another girl about crossing the road at a legally forbidden area. Seattle police deny any wrongdoing.(CNN)(BBC)(IOL)[permanent dead link](Sky News)
BP begins collectingcrude oil from a second containment system that the company hopes will help stem the thousands of barrels escaping from their damaged well, an amount that scientists said could be as high as 60,000 barrels a day.(The New York Times)
After a heated debate the Parliament ofLebanon proposes to offer basic rights to hundreds of thousands of refugees it has accepted fromPalestine during recent decades.(Aljazeera)(The Daily Star)
Israel Defense Forces soldiers stop three armed men enteringIsrael fromEgypt, 40 kilometers north of the Israeli city ofEilat. One of them is killed, and the other two flee, leaving behind an explosive device.(The Jerusalem Post)
More than £200 million in health funding to theZambian government is suspended by theGlobal Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, though some aid is given to non-government groups and the fund's director of communications says life-saving treatments remain unaffected.(BBC)
TheNational Army of Colombia says an unknown number of informants who aided the rescue of three police officers and a soldier fromFARC on Sunday will receive a $1.2 million reward between them.(BBC)
Researchers from fourItalian universities identify human remains discovered in a church inTuscany as "almost certainly" being those ofRenaissance artistCaravaggio.(BBC)
Israeli Defence MinisterEhud Barak warnsLebanon of the responsibility it holds if Israel has to involve itself in a "violent and dangerous confrontation" with a Gaza-bound international aid flotilla said to include dozens of Lebanese and several Europeans.(AFP)
Rwanda releases from custody anAmerican lawyer for health reasons. The lawyer is charged with genocide denial and threatening state security, the first outsider tried under the country's 2003 anti-genocide legislation.(Reuters Africa)
Hundreds ofsurveillance cameras, alleged to be part of a counter-terrorism operation in highly Muslim areas, are put into temporary disuse in parts ofBirmingham, England, after protest by the local population.(The Guardian)(BBC)
Hope for the dozens ofColombian coal miners trapped underground yesterday begins to fade. At least 50 miners are estimated to still be trapped 2 kilometers underground, all of whom are thought to be dead. Rescue workers have so far recovered 18 bodies, and have advanced 700 meters underground.(BBC)(The Washington Post)
Two former military chiefs inThe Gambia are charged over an alleged plot to removePresidentYahya Jammeh from office in 2006; critics say the government is manipulating coup allegations for its own gain.(BBC)
Burmese Democracy activistAung San Suu Kyi turns 65, as international and domestic pressure for her release from house arrest intensify. Guards surrounding her home allow her to receive a birthday cake and a bouquet of flowers from political supporters.(Yahoo! News)
A drone attack on a militant hideout inNorth Waziristan inPakistan, killed at least 13 people and injured six others.(CNN)
5 policemen are killed and 14 others injured in four separate attacks against the police forces inPakistan.(Xinhua)
Four suspectedal-Qaida gunmen blast their way into the intelligence headquarters. The attack on the heavily protected security complex kills 18 in the southern port city ofAden,Yemen.(China Daily)(Washington Post)
Roadside bomb blast kills 4, wounds 12 in bus carrying soldiers inIstanbul.(AA)
8Turkish troops are killed in an attack by Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey. In response, Kurdish positions are targeted by Turkish airstrikes in NorthernIraq. Twelve Kurdish rebels are killed.(BBC)(IOL)
Israel says it will move to loosen its land blockade against theGaza Strip, while indicating the continuation of its naval blockade against the region.(Xinhua)
At least one person is killed and tens of others are wounded during clashes betweenIndian paramilitary authorities and demonstrators inKashmir. The demonstrators were protesting against a 25-year-old who is said to have been beaten to death by soldiers during a 12 June demonstration.(Aljazeera)
Mara gang members inEl Salvador attack a bus on the outskirts ofSan Salvador, shooting at it before dousing it with gasoline and lighting it on fire, killing 14 and injuring 16. Gang members open fire on another bus shortly afterward, killing another 2 people.(Yahoo! News)(Aljazeera)
Iraq's electricity ministerKarim Waheed offers his resignation on live television as "Iraqis are not capable of being patient in their suffering". Two people are shot dead by armed forces while protesting over lack of electricity generation blamed by Waheed on lack of funding.(BBC)
Gazprom,Russia's state-controlled gasmonopoly, cuts 15% ofBelarus' gas supplies over alleged debt, and threatens to gradually cut up to 85% of Belarus' gas supplies if the debt remains unpaid.(Aljazeera)(BBC)
8 people die and 10 people are wounded in a suicide attack in the northern city ofShirqat ofIraq.(TRT)
The Washington Post reports thatGizab villagers in Afghanistan overturned their localTaliban movement during April, with some members putting down their weapons and being welcomed back into their local community. TheUnited States did not hear of this before now as it happened in a remote part of the country ignored by the military.(The Washington Post)
The northernmost radiation detection station of theSouth Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety claims to have detected an eightfold increase in the radioactive substancexenon.(AP)(Chosun Ilbo)
TheFund for Peace and Foreign Policy Magazine releases its 2010 index of so-called "failed states", ranking 177 countries by what it sees as those most at risk of failure;Foreign Policy claims state failure "is a chronic condition".(Aljazeera)
Six people are arrested inSouth Africa over the shooting ofRwandan dissident Lt Gen Nyamwasa.(BBC)
War crimes charges are formally requested against 12Belgian government officials and military officers in connection with the assassination of Congo's first democratically elected prime minister,Patrice Lumumba, as historians agree on a high-level Belgian conspiracy, with Western-backed dictatorMobutu Sese Seko succeeding Lumumba until he was overthrown in 1997.(AP)(AFP)(Reuters)(Taiwan News)
Christopher Coke walks into a police station on the outskirts ofKingston,Jamaica and is detained, following search efforts which killed more than 70 people last month. TheUnited States accuses him of being theShower Posse leader, which it alleges operates an international drugs and guns network.(BBC)
Slovenia is approved as a new member of the organization in the opening session of the summit.(People's Daily)
The 12 other European nations meeting at the summit issue a joint statement saying they "deplore the loss of life and injuries during the incident in international waters" during theGaza flotilla raid and "call "an impartial, independent and internationally credible investigation on this matter".(Today's Zaman)(The Jerusalem Post)(Haaretz)(The Straits Times)
GeneralStanley A. McChrystal, America's top military commander inAfghanistan, submits his resignation after being summoned home by an "angry"Barack Obama due to his expression of critical opinions about senior American politicians and diplomats in aRolling Stone magazine profile. Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai supports McChrystal, while theTaliban say the incident is "another sign of the start of the political defeat" for America's Afghan policies.(BBC)(Dawn)(Aljazeera)(The National)
Kenya permits prisoners to vote in a referendum on a new constitution in a landmark court ruling.(BBC)(Daily Nation)(KBC)
Strikes in China which began on 21st of June have shut down Toyota and Honda plants there. "The BBC's China editor Shirong Chen says the government has tolerated strikes at foreign-owned plants, which are obliged to respect workers' rights, but maintains strict control at Chinese-owned factories for fear of widespread social unrest."(BBC)
Hours after the earthquake struck Central Canada, severe thunderstorms rolled through Central Ontario, Canada, which has spawned at least 2 tornadoes in cottage country, including one confirmed F-2 tornado touch down inMidland, Ontario, north ofToronto, The most significant damage was reported at Smith's Camp, a trailer park at the south end of the town, where several mobile homes were completely destroyed.(CTV)
Five American men are jailed for 10 years in Pakistan after being arrested in possession of maps of sensitive locations. The men deny they have links to militants and say they are charity workers. The verdict is announced inside a prison in the presence of American diplomats.(BBC)(Xinhua)(Aljazeera)(The Guardian)
Burundi's defence ministerGermain Niyoyankana says he hopes opposition leaderAgathon Rwasa has not gone into hiding as this is banned. Rwasa, an ex-rebel chief, signed a peace deal in 2009. A spokesman says he has only gone on holiday for 15 days.(BBC)
Bridgeport, Connecticut in theUnited States is put under a state of emergency when hurricane-force winds from a strong storm went through, causing injuries and severe damage including the collapse of a multi-story building.(CNN)(CTPost)
Millions of protesters take to the streets inRome,Naples,Milan and other Italian cities to protest their government's austerity measures which cut funds and affects public sector salaries and to testSilvio Berlusconi.(Aljazeera)
Christopher Coke, sent toUnited States territory byJamaica, pleads not guilty to United States charges of drug smuggling ata federal court inNew York and, in his first public comments since August, says he took the decision to be extradited "in the best interest of my family, the community of westernKingston and in particular the people ofTivoli Gardens and above all Jamaica".(Aljazeera)
Evangelical preacher Merrick "Al" Miller is charged with "harbouring a fugitive" and "perverting the course of justice", though he says Coke was on the verge of turning himself into authorities.(Jamaica Gleaner)
Security forces inYemen clash with suspectedAl-Qaeda members inAden during investigations into a bombing of a government compound last week.(Al Jazeera)
Gunmen raided a jewelry shop Saturday morning in westernIraq, killing four people before fleeing with a large amount of gold inFallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west ofBaghdad.(Arab News)
17 people are killed and 25 others injured when an overcrowded bus collided head-on with a speeding truck nearChenaki More, abount 30 km fromPatna,India.(Thaindian)
A Toronto veterinarian, who has no involvement in activism, alleges "overreach of police power" after being awoken at night by police in his bedroom at gunpoint; they did not produce a search warrant, questioned his wife and disturbed their baby son before dragging him downstairs in handcuffs onto his own front lawn. He was later released and filed a complaint.(CBC)(National Post)
Israel allegedly confiscates seven oxygen machines en route to hospitals in theWest Bank andGaza as they "came under the category of possible use for non-medical purposes". The Palestinian Ministry of Health asks for theNorwegian Development Agency that donated them to assist in calling for their return.(Haaretz)
Several thousandEgyptians, joined by opposition leaderMohamed ElBaradei, protest systematic use of torture by authorities in the largest demonstration yet resulting from the alleged fatal beating todeath of Khaled Said by police.(Arab News)
Two Palestinians are killed in anIsraeli strike on two underground tunnels from theGaza Strip to Israel. TheIDF claims the attack was a response to Thursday's firing of a dozen mortar rounds towards Israel.(Arab News)(The Washington Post)
About 5,000 people attend a rally in the northernIsraeli town ofKiryat Motzkin in support of the captured soldier on the second day of cross-country march(Ynet)
Kyrgyzstan approves a new constitution with 90.6 percent of voters backing a constitution that would pave the way for a parliamentary election in October, following the violence of the recentuprising andriots.(The New York Times)
TheRed Crescent delays an aid shipment bound forGaza after being told thatEgypt would prevent it from using the internationally neutralSuez Canal.(BBC)
Turkey says it will return an ambassador toIsrael if the Israeli government formally apologizes for the killing of nine Turkish citizens during theGaza flotilla raid, compensates their families and when an independent commission is established into the matter.(The New York Times)
United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967,Richard A. Falk, issues a statement callingIsrael's plan to demolish 20 Palestinian homes inEast Jerusalem illegal and states the forceful transfer of four Palestinians in another incident could be a "war crime".(Reuters)(The Vancouver Sun)
Rescuers inGhana'sCentral Region end an operation to search for survivors from a gold mine collapse in which 70 people were thought to be dead.(My Joy Online)(BBC)
China states it can haveTibet "forever" but indicates a heavy security presence will be necessary to maintain public control.(Reuters)
Google ends a redirect to itsHong Kong site in China and provides a new method of reaching unfiltered results after the Chinese government threatened to end its Internet Content Provider license.(BBC)(The New York Times)(AFP)
One body is recovered after 107 people were buried by alandslide triggered byflooding in the southwestern province ofGuizhou.(Xinhua)
A report byHuman Rights Watch calls on Britain, France and Germany to stop using intelligence obtained through illegal torture in third-party countries, saying that it contradicts theEuropean Union's anti-torture guidelines and is self-defeating in the "fight against terrorism".(Aljazeera)
Protests are held all acrossIndia and occupiedKashmir amid curfew restrictions for the past ten days. Ten adolescents are killed by the forces.(G.K)(Kashmir)
Two people are killed overnight inBurundi and two others wounded in violence that follows a controversial presidential election in which incumbentPierre Nkurunziza was the only candidate.(Daily Nation)
Rescuers have recovered eight bodies from the ruins of asouthwest China village, two days after a devastating rain-triggered landslide destroyed 37 houses and buried 99 villagers under mud. 91 residents ofDazhai Village,Guanling County,Guizhou Province, remained missing.(Xinhua)
13 people are killed during attacks inIraq: 4 people die in the town ofBeiji.(TRT)
