Portal:Current events/2009 July 3
July 3, 2009 (Friday)
- The African Union stops cooperation with the International Criminal Court because it charged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with war crimes. (BBC)
- Three people die and over a dozen are injured in riots after a dead pig is thrown into an under-construction mosque in Mysore, India. (CNN)
- John Demjanjuk is declared fit to stand trial for assisting in the deaths of 29,000 Jews in Treblinka extermination camp. (RTÉ)
- Disney XD is in Latin America and Brazil
- Energy ministers of Algeria, Niger and Nigeria sign the intergovernmental agreement on the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline. (Reuters) (Bloomberg) (BBC)
- Flooding affects parts of County Mayo and County Galway in Ireland. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives in Burma, meeting junta leader Senior General Than Shwe and calling for the release of political prisoners. (BBC) (Bangkok Post)
- Two Iranian staff working for the British embassy in Tehran will face trial over allegedly inciting protests. (BBC)
- Three dinosaur species—Australovenator wintonensis, Wintonotitan wattsi and Diamantinasaurus matildae—are discovered in Australia. (BBC) (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Syria invites United States President Barack Obama to the Damascus summit. (Sky News)
- Algerian raï music star Cheb Mami is jailed for five years in France for trying to force his former partner to have an abortion. (BBC) (IOL) (Reuters)
- Manuel Pinho, Portugal's Economy Minister, resigns after performing a cuckold gesture at an opposition MP. (BBC)
- North Korea broadcasts its first ever beer commercial, for Taedonggang beer. (BBC) (The Los Angeles Times)
- Two more people die in Viareggio, Italy, following the train explosion, bringing the death toll to 21. (RTÉ)
- Six people, including three children, are killed after a fire in a high rise residential tower block in Camberwell, south London, England. (BBC)
- Russia opens a route for the United States to fly arms to Afghanistan. (The New York Times)
- American politician Sarah Palin, current Governor of Alaska and 2008 Vice Presidential candidate, announces her resignation as Governor, effective July 26. (Fox News) (CNN)
- Two aid workers, including one Irish woman, with the charity GOAL are kidnapped by an armed gang in Sudan's Darfur region. (RTÉ)
- Thirteen people are injured after the Paris to Cahors train derails near Limoges, France. (RTÉ)
- A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of Cortez shakes western Mexico. (IOL)