Events in June 2005
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Jun. 1
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The Dutch voters reject the E.U. statute in a referendum dealing a potentially fatal blow to the treaty. |
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At least 27 persons are killed as a suicide bomber blows himself up inside the Maulvi Abdul Rab Mosque in Kamdhar in southern Afghanistan. |
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Jun. 2
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Leaders of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat conference arrive in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. |
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Jun. 3
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Thirty one persons are killed in a wave of violence over northern Iraq. |
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Latvia ratifies E.U. Constitution. |
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Albanian poet and novelist, Ismail Kadare (69), is named the winner of the Man Booker International Prize, a brand new laurel for the world’s finest writers. |
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India and the Ukraine sign an agreement on cooperation in outer space in the presence of the Presidents, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Viktor Yushchenko, in Kiev. |
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Anurag Kashyap, a Californian of Indian origin, wins the spelling bee contest in the U.S., correctly spelling ‘appoggiatura’, a musical term. |
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Jun. 3
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Britain unveils “modern Marshall Plan” to alleviate poverty in Africa. |
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Jun. 4
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Mohammad Ali Jinnah is a great man who espoused the cause of secular Pakistan, says the BJP president, L. K. Advani, after visiting the Pakistan leader’s mausoleum in Karachi. |
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Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, indefinitely postpones parliamentary polls slated for July. |
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The Pentagon confirms Koran desecration by the U.S. soldiers at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba. |
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Jun. 5
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Swiss voters approve joining the European Union’s passport free Schengen Zone doing away with checks on the country’s border by 2007 and more rights for same-sex couple. |
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At least 200 persons are killed in China following a week of torrential rains. |
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U.S. forces discover an “insurgent lair” in Iraq’s Al Anbar province, including a huge bunker system. |
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Jun. 6
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India and Pakistan announce setting up of a joint working group for energy cooperation with focus on gas pipelines, in Islamabad. |
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Britain shelves plans for a referendum on the European Union statute. |
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At least 53 persons are killed as a mine rips apart a bus at Kalyanpur, in south-western Nepal. |
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The International Criminal Court at The Hague launches probe into alleged war crimes in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region, in April. |
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Bolivian President, Carlos Mesa, quits amid protests demanding nationalisation of the gas industry. |
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Minoru Saito, a Japanese yachtsman becomes the oldest person to circumnavigate the globe. Kenchi Horie, Japanese adventurer returns after successful circumnavigation of the globe. |
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Jun. 7
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The U.S.-born Lionel Shriver’s We Need To Talk About Kevin wins the women-only £ 30,000 Orange Prize. |
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Jun. 9
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Israel’s Supreme Court rules that Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon’s Gaza pullout plan is constitutional. |
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The former Supreme Court President, Educardo Rodriguez, is sworn in Bolivian President. |
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Jun. 10
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Italian aid worker Clementina Cantoni is freed after being held hostage for more than three weeks since her abduction in the Afghanistan capital Kabul on May 16. |
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Jun. 11
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The G-7 nations reach an agreement on a $ 55-billion Africa debt relief. |
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Jun. 12
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Veer-Zaara is voted the best picture of 2004 at the Samsung International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony in Amsterdam. |
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Jun. 13
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Pop star Michael Jackson is cleared of all charges in the child molestation trial by a 12-member fury after hearing 14 weeks of testimony. |
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Mohammed ElBaradei gets a third four-year term as the International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General. |
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India signs a $ 18 billion gas deal with Iran. |
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U.S. scientists discover the smallest planet yet outside the solar system orbiting closely to a dim star in Aquarius known as Gliese 876. |
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Jun. 14
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The former Chairman of the Daewoo Group, Kim Woo-Choong, is arrested in Seoul on fraud charges. |
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The South African President, Thabo Mbeki, sacks the Vice-President, Jacob Zuma on corruption charges. |
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Jun. 15
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The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, withdraws support to the Chandrika Kumaratunga Government in Sri Lanka. |
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Thirtyone persons are killed in two suicide bombings in Iraq. Douglas Wood, an Australian is freed after a six-week ordeal. |
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Reuters, the last tenant of London’s Fleet Street, home to famous newspapers, moves out bringing to an end an era. |
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Jun. 16
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Donald Tsang is declared elected unopposed as the Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. |
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Jun. 17
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Iranians cast votes in the ninth presidential polls. |
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Jun. 18
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Talks on the European Union’s budget in Brussels collapse after Britain refuses to surrender its annual rebate. |
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American troops launch Operation Spear, one of their biggest offensives, to hunt for militants on Iraq’s border with Syria. |
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A suicide bomber kills 16 policemen at a Baghdad restaurant. |
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Jun. 19
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Lebanon’s main Opposition alliance led by Saad Hariri wins an eight seat majority in parliamentary polls held in four phases. |
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Jun. 20
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Kuwaits first woman Minister, Maasuma al-Mubarak, takes oath in Parliament. (She was appointed Minister of Planning and Administrative Development on June 12). |
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Belgian scientists clone embryos for the first time using unripe eggs matured in a dish. |
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At least 28 persons, including 15 policemen in the Iraqi city of Irbil, die in separate attacks throughout the nation. |
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Turkish radical Islamist cleric, Metin Kaplan, is sentenced to life for plotting to overthrow the secular system. |
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Jun. 21
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Sixty Afghan rebels are killed in a gunbattle on the border between Kandahar and Zabul. |
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Cardinal Jamie Sin, Filipino Roman Catholic spiritual leader dies in a Manila hospital. |
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Jun. 23
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Nearly 40 persons are killed in car bombings, including two coordinated blasts outside Shia mosques in the Iraqi capital Baghdad over a 12-hour period. |
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A summit of Russia and its ex-Soviet allies in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, a defence pact, vows to oppose ‘velvet revolutions’. |
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The South African Mines Minister, Phumzile Malmbo-Ngcuka, is appointed Vice-President. |
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Jun. 24
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Former Teheran Mayor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wins the Iranian presidential polls defeating Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the runoff election. |
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Colombo and the LTTE sign an MoU for setting up a Post Tsunami Operational Management Structure to share relief. |
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Jun. 26
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Bulgarian socialists fail to gain majority in parliamentary polls. |
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Jun. 27
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At least 33 persons are killed in suicide attacks in the morthan Iraqi city of Mosul. |
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Nepal’s anti-corruption commission clears the former Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, of graft charges. |
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John Walton (58), the billionaire second son of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder, Sam Walton dies in an aeroplane crash in Wyoming. |
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Jun. 28
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court orders the rearrest of 13 men accused in the gangrape of Mukhtaran Mai in Meerwala village in June 2002 following the orders of a village council. |
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Lebanon’s Parliament re-elects Nabih Berri as Speaker for a fourth consecutive term. |
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Fleet review on a grand scale marks Trafalgar Day observance marking the 200th anniversary of the British victory over the French and Spanish navies. |
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India and the U.S. sign a framework for defence cooperation in Pentagon. |
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Canada legalises gay marriages nationwide becoming the third country after Belgium and the Netherlands to do so. |
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At least 16 U.S. soldiers are killed after a helicopter is shot down during an anti-Al-Qaeda mission in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. |
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Jun. 29
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Leaders of the Caribbean nations and Venezuela sign an accord on cheaper fuel. |
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Jun. 30
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Spain’s Parliament approves law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children. |
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Rich Western nations announce a $ 31 billion debt relief for Nigeria, the biggest such in Africa’s history. |
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