Events in June 2010
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Jun. 2
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Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns over the issue of letting a U.S. base remain in Okinawa prefecture. |
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Twelve persons are killed as Derrick Bird, a taxi driver goes on a shooting spree in Lake District, London before turning the gun on himself. |
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai escapes bid on life after a three-member Taliban suicide squad targets a peace meet in Kabul. |
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Jun. 3
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To test endurance during a simulated 520-day return flight to mars, six researchers are locked up inside a mock spacecraft built near Moscow where they will spend the next 18 months. |
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At least 100 people, mostly women and children, are killed in a fire in the old part of Dhaka. |
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Anthony Hill, an African American is shot dead and his body dragged for several kilometres in Newberry County in Central South Carolina, the U.S. |
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Sir Paul McCatney is awarded the Gershwin Prize, the highest American award for popular song. |
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Jun. 4
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Naoto Kan is elected Japanese Prime Minister. |
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Indian-American Anamika Veeramani wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest. |
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Jun. 5
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Israeli troops take control of MV Rachel Corrie, an Irish flagged aid ship bound for Gaza. |
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Jun. 6
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The 160-metre Capital Gate tower in Abu Dhabi is recognised as the “furthest leaning man-made tower in the world by Guinness World Records.” |
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Jun. 7
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“Prague is today an active participant in the making of a new Europe”, says the Vice Prepsident Hamid Ansari visiting the Czech Republic. |
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Jun. 8
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India and the Czech Republic sign three agreements. A Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation is set up. |
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Jun. 9
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The Dutch cast ballots in parliamentary polls. |
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The U.N. imposes fresh sanctions against Iran. |
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India and Croatia sign two pacts on cooperation in Health and Medicine and on Cultural exchange in Zagreb. |
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American novelist Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna wins the year’s £30,000 Orange Prize for fiction, Britain’s highly-regarded literary honour for women writers. |
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Jun. 10
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At least 37 persons are killed and 400 wounded in clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek groups in Kyrgyzstan. |
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Jun. 11
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Moscow summit approves rules for admitting new members from the Asia-Pacific region. |
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Jun. 12
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The Symphony Orchestra of India, the nation’s first such professional body makes international debut at the Fifth Festival of World’s Symphony Orchestras in Moscow. |
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Jun. 13
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The first results from Belgium’s general election confirm a breakthrough for Flemish separatists. |
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Iran, Pakistan finalise gas pipeline deal. |
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Jun. 14
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U.S. geologists discover $ 1 trillion worth of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan. |
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Jun. 15
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The toll in Kyrgyzstan ethnic strife touches 170. Lakhs fleeing homes. Uzbekistan closes border. |
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Swiss MPs approve fax deal with with the U.S. |
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British troops fired without provocation killing 13 persons on January 30, 1972 (Bloody Sunday) in Londonderry, Northern Ireland at a rights march, says probe panel. |
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Jun. 16
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British Petroleum agrees to pay $ 20 billion into an oil spill fund. |
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Jun. 17
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Canada could have averted the Kanishka air tragedy on June 23, 1985 in which 329 people died, says probe panel. |
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An Australian teenager is arrested in a Melbourne suburb for the January 2 murder of Indian student Niting Garg. |
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Swiss Parliament backs a tax treaty crucial to the future of UBS AG, the country’s biggest bank. |
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The European Union approves sanctions that target Iran’s key energy sector. |
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Jun. 18
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Pakistani-American terror suspect Faisal Shahzad is indicted by a grand fury in the U.S. District Court of Manhattan in the botched Times Square car bombing. |
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Jun. 20
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Poles cast ballots in snap presidential polls. |
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Iran hangs Abdolmalek Rigi leader of the Pakistan-based Jundallah group for violent incidents in the country. |
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China announces a floating currency exchange rate to keep the yuan stable. |
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Jun. 21
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Pakistan-born American Faisal Shahzad pleads guilty to the Times Square car bomb bid 100 times. |
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Jun. 23
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The U.S. President Barack Obama removes General Stanley McChristal as the top NATO commander in Afghanistan. |
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Jun. 24
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Julia Gillard is sworn in Australia’s first woman Prime Minister. The incumbent Kevin Rudd quits after being toppled as leader of the ruling Labour Party. |
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France is paralysed by a general strike in protest against the government’s decision to revise the retirement age from 60 to 62. |
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India, Pakistan resume Composite Dialogue process, on hold since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. |
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Alstom opens the largest rotor balancing facility in the world on the banks of the Tennessee River at Chattanooga,Tennessee, U.S. |
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Jun. 25
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India joins the Thirty Metre Telescope project, the next generation astronomical observatory that will be located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. |
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India joins the Financial Action Task Force, a global body that chalks out policies to counter financial frauds. |
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The Maldives Cabinet resigns after a standoff with the Opposition. |
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The U.S. arrests a couple and nine other members of an alleged Russian spy ring in the last three days. |
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Jun. 26
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The G8 summit in Canada renews its ban on the sale of enrichment and reprocessing technology to India. |
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Jun. 27
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warns against a double dip recession at the G20 Summit in Toronto, Canada. |
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Guineans cast ballots in the West African nation’s first democratic election since independence in 1958. |
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Kyrgyzstan voters approve a new Constitution in a referendum backing radical changes from a presidential to a parliamentary form of government. |
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India and Canada sign a civil nuclear cooperation agreement in Toronto. |
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G-20 leaders agree on a timetable for cutting deficits. |
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Joint declaration welcomes resumption of India-Pakistan talks. |
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Jun. 28
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India and Japan begin talks on civil nuclear cooperation in Tokyo. |
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Jun. 29
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China and Taiwan sign a historic pact – the Economic Cooperatioin Framework Agreement in the southwest Chinese city of Chongqing. |
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Jun. 30
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Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigns after being at the helm for 13 months. |
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The U.S. House of Representatives passes bill to revamp the financial regulatory system. |
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