Portal:Current events/June 2015

• Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017):
  • An Islamic State suicide bombing kills 37 at an Iraqi police base. (Yahoo)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021):
  • Nine Afghan employees of a Czech charity People In Need have been killed in an attack by unknown gunmen in Zari District in the north of the country. (Al Jazeera), (BBC), (Radio Prague)

• A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River in China's Hubei province. So far, just seven have been rescued. (Xinhua via Twitter), (News Limited)

• Illegal immigration from Africa to Europe
  • A European Union mission rescues more than 5,000 migrants over three days. (Deutsche Welle)

• Nigeria's anti-graft authority arrests six senior officials from the Central Bank of Nigeria and 16 people from commercial banks for fraud. (AFP via Fraud)

• Parts of the Patriot Act expire at 12:01 a.m. due to Congressional failure to reform the USA Freedom Act, temporarily making new surveillance of telephone records by the NSA illegal. (New York Times)
• Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina enters the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. (New York Times)

• Former German chancellor, "architect of German reunification" and one of the authors of the European single currency Helmut Kohl is reported to be in a "critical condition" after surgery at a Heidelberg hospital. (Guardian)

• Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
  • Armed tribesmen kill 18 Houthi fighters in an ambush in Yemen's Ibb Governorate. (Reuters)
• Communist insurgency in the Philippines
  • Adelberto Silva, the highest ranked leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines and New People's Army, has been arrested. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
• Boko Haram
  • A suicide bombing in the city of Maiduguri in the north of Nigeria kills 20 people. (AP)

• Incidents at European amusement parks
  • Alton Towers: The Smiler roller coaster crash
    • This roller coaster breakdown results in 4 people critically injured. Many injured in this theme park were stuck in the ride for several hours. (BBC)
• 2015 Indian heat wave
  • The official death toll from the Indian heat wave rises to 2,330 with meteorologists warning that relief from the monsoon season could still be days away. (CNN)
• Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
  • Rescue efforts continue for people on board the ship that sank on the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province with over 450 people on board. So far, fewer than 12 have been rescued and five bodies recovered. (New York Times), (CNN)
• Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
  • Two brothers whose father was on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 last year when it disappeared receive compensation from the government of Malaysia and Malaysian Airlines. (AP via Asian Correspondent)

• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in South Korea
  • Two people die of Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea. (NBC News)

• Beijing bans smoking in indoor public places, including offices, shopping malls, restaurants, bars and airports, and in outdoor public places, including hospitals and schools. (CNN)
• Thai Army Lieutenant General Manus Kongpan is suspended after police order his arrest on involvement in people trafficking. (Reuters via ABC Online)
• Boston Marathon bombing
  • Dias Kadyrbayev, a college friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is sentenced to six years for obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges after Kadyrbayev removed incriminating evidence from Tsarnaev's college dorm room. (CBS Local)

• The United States Senate passes the USA Freedom Act, which will transfer the responsibility of Americans' bulk telephone metadata collection from the National Security Agency to telephone companies. (The Guardian)

• 2015 FIFA corruption case
  • Sepp Blatter announces that he will resign as President of FIFA as a result of the corruption scandals with an emergency congress to be called as soon as possible. (BBC) (RTÉ News)
• In Cricket, New Zealand beats England by 199 runs to draw the test series. (Telegraph)

• Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • The Saudi Arabia led coalition launches airstrikes on military bases near the Yemeni capital Sanaa. (Reuters)
• The Grozny Chechnya office of the Committee Against Torture NGO is attacked by masked men who came out of a crowd of protesters. They broke down the door and trashed the office. National Leader Ramzan Kadyrov speculated the attack could have been carried out by relatives of Dzhambulat Dadayev upset that the NGO which investigates torture did not lead protests of the shooting of Dadayev by law enforcement officers from another region. Moscow Times
• War in Donbass
  • Pro-Russian separatists launch an offensive to take Marinka, Ukraine, 5 kilometers from the separatist capital of Donetsk. At least 19 people have died in fighting. Ukrainian sources claimed at least 10 tanks took part in the battle. (AFP via Yahoo! News), (New York Times)

• Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
  • The search continues for survivors of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing which sank on China's Yangtze River with 450 passengers on board. So far, 18 people have been confirmed dead with 14 people rescued. (CCTV via Twitter)
• At least 11 people are killed in a fire at a filling station in the Ghanaian capital Accra. (Kasapa)

• South Korea has successfully test fired two ballistic missiles that can hit all of North Korea. (AP)

• 2015 FIFA corruption case
  • Interpol issues red notices linked to arrest warrants for two former FIFA officials Jack Warner and Nicolas Leoz and four executives. (Interpol via Twitter), (AP), (ITV)
  • Former FIFA official Chuck Blazer admits to taking bribes in relation to bids for the 2010 and 1998 FIFA World Cups. (CNN)

• 2016 United States presidential election
  • Former Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee announces he is seeking the Democratic Party nomination. (New York Times)

• Several rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel and exploded near the cities of Ashdod, Netivot and Ashkelon causing no casualties. The IDF retaliated with airstrikes against empty Hamas training camps in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
• Naxalite Insurgents kill at least 20 Indian Army soldiers and injure 12 in an attack on a convoy in the state of Manipur. (BBC)

• St Benet's Hall at Oxford University decides to admit women, making it the last of the University's institutions to do so. (Reuters Trust)

• Officials of the ruling Syriza party in Greece say that they cannot accept a last-minute deal proposed by the country's creditors: default deadline looms. (AP)

• Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
  • The death toll from the Monday night sinking of the cruise ship in the Yangtze River rises to 75 with most of the 450 passengers on board still missing. (The Guardian), (NBC News)
• An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, kills at least 78 people. (Al Jazeera)

• Surgeons, led by Dr. Jesse Selber, working with the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in a 15-hour, 12-doctor operation, perform the world's first partial-skull and scalp transplant, at Houston Methodist Hospital, on 55-year-old Jim Boysten, a software developer from Austin, Texas suffering from a large head wound from cancer treatment; immediately afterward, he was finally able to receive a new kidney and pancreas, which replaced the previous transplants that were failing. (MSN)
• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in South Korea
  • The number of people with Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea rises to 35 with over 700 schools suspending classes due to fears of the syndrome. (Xinhua)
• Panel of advisors to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends approval of flibanserin by 18–6 to improve a woman's libido. (NPR)

• Associated Press reports that there has been a massive hack from the American Office of Personnel Management and US Department of the Interior with the Washington Post claiming that Chinese hackers were responsible. The records of at least four million US Government workers are believed to have been compromised. (AP), (Washington Post), (The Telegraph)

• 2016 United States presidential election
  • Former Governor of Texas Rick Perry announces that he will be a candidate for the Republican Party. (CNN)
• USA Freedom Act
  • President Barack Obama signs the bill, reinstating expired provisions of the Patriot Act while reforming Section 215 of the Act. (NBC)

• A bomb explodes in a marketplace in Yola, Nigeria, killing 31 and injuring dozens of others. (AP), (CNN)
• Two people are killed and more than a hundred injured as bombs explode at rallies held by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party two days ahead of the general election in Diyarbakir. (AP)

• Nestlé temporarily removes its Maggi noodles product from the shelves in India following a health scare. (Economic Times)

• Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
  • The death toll from the sinking of the ship on the Yangtze River rises to 82 with officials giving up hope of finding more survivors. Only 15 out of over 450 people on the boat were rescued. (Sky News Australia)
• Two bodies have been removed from Borneo's Mount Kinabalu following the 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Malaysia's Sabah province Friday morning. Previously-stranded climbers, reported at 137, have descended to the Laban Rata resthouse. (The Star) (CNN) (Asia Straits Times) (The Rakyat Post)
• 2015 Accra explosion
  • The death toll from an explosion at a gasoline station on Wednesday in the Ghanaian capital Accra rises to over 200. (Zee News)

• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in South Korea
  • Four people have now died of MERS in South Korea with five new cases reported. (AFP via Bangkok Post)

• Benigno Aquino, the President of the Philippines, says that his government will start discussions with Japan about allowing Japan Self-Defense Forces to refuel at Filipino bases allowing the extension of operations into the South China Sea. (Reuters via Daily Mail)

• Eight out of the ten allegedly involved in shooting Pakistani schoolgirl and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai have been secretly set free. (BBC)
• Prosecutors in the state of Minnesota file criminal charges against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for allegedly mishandling sexual abuse allegations by a priest. (New York Times)

• Romania's National Anticorruption Directorate announces that it is investigating the Prime Minister Victor Ponta for alleged money laundering, forgery and corruption. Ponta denies the allegations and is refusing to stand down. (CNN)

• Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Saudi Arabia shoots down a Scud missile fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen according to Saudi State media. (Reuters)
  • At least four Saudi Arabian Army soldiers and "dozens of" Yemeni Republican Guard are killed in fighting near the border, according to Saudi government. (AFP via France 24)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • The Taliban launches a major offensive in the Yamgan District of Badakhshan Province with hundreds of militants involved. (AP)
• War in Donbass
  • The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko claims that his forces have repelled an attack on the town of Marinka and captured 12 rebels including one Russian. (BBC)
• Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
  • For the second time this week, a rocket fired from Gaza lands in Israel. There were no immediate reports of injuries, or claims of responsibility. (Times of Israel)

• Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
  • The death toll from the sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing rises to 396 with 46 unaccounted for. (CCTV via Twitter)
• Eleven bodies have been recovered from Mount Kinabalu and 8 people remain missing following yesterday's Sabah earthquake. (Straits Times)
• Lightning strikes at the Rock am Ring rock festival held at the Mendig Air Base in Germany, injuring 33 people. (AP via News24)
• Illegal immigration from Africa to Europe

• Ships from the British and German navies are dispatched to rescue thousands of migrants stranded in the Mediterranean Sea. (CNN)

• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in South Korea
  • The number of confirmed MERS cases in South Korea rises by 9 to 50. (AFP via Straits Times)

• Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi travels to Bangladesh for the signing of an agreement that dissolves all 162 enclaves in the border region between the two nations and allows thousands of people living in the territories to choose their nationality. (Al-Jazeera)
• Reuters reports that an Egyptian court has overturned a ruling that Hamas is a terrorist organisation. (Reuters)

• Five police are injured following violent protests at a gay pride march in Kiev. (BBC)

• The President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir swears in a new Cabinet after having been sworn in for a five-year term earlier in the week. (al-Arabiya)

• Association football
  • Italian side Juventus FC and Spanish side FC Barcelona play in the final of the 2015 UEFA Champions League Final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin with Barcelona winning their fifth European championship 3-1. (ESPN), (The Guardian)
  • The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup gets underway in Canada with the Canadians beating China 1-0 in the first match. (BBC)
• Horse racing
  • The 236th running of the Epsom Derby is held at Epsom Downs Racecourse in England with Golden Horn ridden by Frankie Dettori winning and stablemate Jack Hobbs coming second. (BBC), (The Telegraph)
  • The 2015 Belmont Stakes is held at Belmont Park with American Pharoah becoming the first horse in 37 years to win the Triple Crown. (Bloomberg)
• 2015 French Open – Women's Singles
  • In tennis, number one seed Serena Williams of the US meets number 13 seed Lucie Šafářová of Czech Republic in the women's singles final of the 2015 French Open. Williams wins her 20th Grand Slam title winning 6-3, 6-7, 6-2. (The Guardian)

• Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • The Saudi-led coalition launches airstrikes on Houthi gatherings in Taez. (Al-Arabiya)

• 69th Tony Awards
  • The 2015 Tony Awards, which celebrate the best theatrical performances on Broadway, are held at Radio City Music Hall with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time winning best play and Fun Home winning best musical. (AP), (Variety)

• 2015 Sabah earthquake
  • More bodies are found on Malaysia's highest peak Mount Kinabalu with the total death from the earthquake at 13 with most casualties from Malaysia and Singapore. (AP via NBC News), (AFP and ABC Australia)
• Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
  • The death toll from the sinking of the Chinese cruise ship is now over 400 as the search area for bodies extends 1,000 km down the Yangtze River. (The Guardian)
• Thirteen people have died in a heatwave in Pakistan. (AAP via News Limited)

• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in South Korea
  • South Korea records its fifth death from MERS with 14 new cases reported. (Yonhap)

• 41st G7 summit
  • The G7 summit gets underway in Germany with the Greek government-debt crisis and Ukrainian crisis dominating the agenda. (Reuters via CNBC)
• Illegal immigration from Africa to Europe

• The number of migrants arriving in Italy from Africa in 2015 passes 50,000 with over 5,000 arriving in the past few days. (The Guardian)

• Mexican legislative election, 2015
  • Voters in Mexico go to the polls for a legislative election with reports of violence in southern states and widespread voter disillusionment. Exit polls show the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party of President Enrique Peña Nieto in a position to retain power. (The Guardian)
• Turkish general election, June 2015
  • Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a general election with the ruling AKP seeking enough votes to enable them to change the constitution. However, early projections show that they will lose their majority in the new parliament. (BBC), (New York Times)

• 2015 French Open – Men's Singles
  • In tennis, Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland defeats Novak Djokovic of Serbia 4–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–4 in the men's singles final for his first win at Roland Garros and his second Grand Slam singles title. Wawrinka's victory also denies Djokovic a career Grand Slam. (ATP World Tour), (The Telegraph)
• 2015 Canadian Grand Prix
  • In motor sport, the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix is held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal with Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes-Benz winning the race ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg. (PA via The Guardian)

• War in North-West Pakistan
  • Seven Pakistani army soldiers and 19 Taliban fighters are killed in overnight fighting in North Waziristan near the Afghanistan border. (Al-Jazeera)

• Apple Inc. announces a new music streaming service called Apple Music. (Engadget)

• 2015 Sabah earthquake
  • The number of people found dead on Mount Kinabalu rises to 16 with two Singaporean climbers still missing. (AP via Yahoo! News)
  • The Singaporean government declares June 8 be a national remembrance day with the Singaporean flag being flown at half-mast and a minute of silence being observed at the beginning of all 2015 SEA Games venues. This is as a mark of respect for the eight people who were killed in the earthquake, which consists of six Primary 6 students, one teacher and their adventure guide. (Straits Times) (Today)
• Sinking of Dong Fang Zhi Xing
  • The death toll from last week's sinking on China's Yangtze River rises to 434 with eight people missing and 14 survivors. (CNN)

• 2015 South Korean MERS outbreak
  • The number of deaths from MERS in South Korea rises to six with 23 new cases reported. (AFP via Straits Times)

• Zivotofsky v. Clinton / Zivotofsky v. Kerry
  • The Supreme Court of the United States decides 6–3 to strike down a law passed by the United States Congress allowing people born in Jerusalem to list Israel as their birthplace in their passports, on the grounds that it is the President's prerogative to extend recognition of sovereignty in matters of foreign affairs.(CNN) (The Times of Israel)

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Indian police kill at least 12 Naxalite Maoist rebels in a clash in the state of Jharkhand. (AP)
• Syrian Civil War
  • The Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army claims to have captured a major Syrian Army base known as Brigade 52 in Daraa Governorate. (BBC)

• HSBC announces plans to cut 8,000 jobs in the United Kingdom, one-sixth of its U.K. workforce, via "natural attrition" as it restructures its banking business. A total of 25,000 jobs could be axed globally. (BBC)

• Several firefighters are killed after an explosion at a military oil depot near Kiev, Ukraine, with several people missing and hundreds evacuated. (Reuters UK) (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)

• At least four people are killed (including the gunman) and five people injured in a shooting incident in China's northern Hebei province. (BBC)
• The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upholds a Texan law providing that abortion clinics meet the same standards as hospital style surgical clinics meaning that many abortion clinics must upgrade or close. (New York Times)
• Swiss police seize computer records from FIFA in an investigation into alleged corruption by the world governing body of association football. (BBC)

• The Turkish cabinet led by current Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu submits its resignation, but is asked to stay on until a new government forms after the election. (AFP via France 24)

• 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
  • Two Brazilians reach historic milestones in the team's 2–0 win over South Korea in Montreal. Marta sets a new record with her 15th goal in Women's World Cup play, and the 37-year-old Formiga becomes the oldest player to score in a Women's World Cup. (ESPN)
• In Major League Baseball, Chris Heston of the San Francisco Giants becomes the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the 2015 season in the Giants' 5–0 win over the New York Mets. (ESPN)

• A suicide bomber targets the Karnak temple site in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor. Two militants were shot nearby, four Egyptians were wounded with no tourists hurt in the attack. (ITV News) (BBC) (Fox News) (AP)
• American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021):
  • President Barack Obama authorizes up to 450 additional troops in Iraq to train Sunni forces. (CNN)
• Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • At least 43 people have been killed in fighting in Yemen. (Reuters)

• Indonesia's Mount Sinabung eruption resumes spewing gas leading to the evacuation of 3,000 nearby residents. (AFP and AP via Economic Times)

• 2015 South Korean MERS outbreak:
  • The death toll from the MERS outbreak in South Korea rises to nine, with 13 new cases reported. More than 2,200 schools have closed or cancelled classes as a result of the outbreak. (Reuters)

• Catholic Church sexual abuse cases
  • Pope Francis approves the outline of a new system giving power to the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to judge bishops "with regard to crimes of the abuse of office when connected to the abuse of minors." (National Catholic Reporter)

• The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil strikes down a law allowing the subjects of biographies to quash works they disapprove of. (AP)

• Bidding for the 2026 FIFA World Cup is postponed due to the 2015 FIFA corruption case and the subsequent resignation of Sepp Blatter. (Reuters via ABC Australia)

• Military intervention against ISIL
  • A US citizen fighting alongside Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) against ISIL is killed in action near Kobani. (Today's Zaman via AP)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front, shoots dead at least 20 Druze villagers in Idlib in what is being described as a "massacre". (The Telegraph)
• Boko Haram
  • Residents of northeast Nigeria claim that Boko Haram has killed at least 43 people and burnt down three villages in recent attacks. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
• Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
  • A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Ashkelon region fell short and did not land in Israel with Palestinian sources indicating it may have hit a house. There were no immediate reports of injuries, or claims of responsibility. Journalists speculate that ISIL-affiliated groups are responsible. (Times of Israel)

• Spain gives the late writer Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, a formal burial at a Madrid convent nearly 400 years after his death in 1616. (AP)

• After a poor 1st quarter earnings report, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo steps down with co-founder Jack Dorsey taking over as interim CEO effective July 1. (USA Today)
• Rupert Murdoch will step aside as CEO of 21st Century Fox to be replaced by his son James Murdoch. (AFP via ABC Online)
• Greek broadcaster ERT is reopened as one of new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's moves.

• At least 41 people have been killed, 8 injured, and scores are missing in landslides in Nepal's Taplejung District caused by heavy rain. (The Hindu)

• Health officials in the United States are advising doctors to be on the lookout for MERS following an outbreak in South Korea. (AP via Washington Post)

• NGO Save the Children
  • Federal Interior Ministry of Pakistan has sealed the offices of the NGO Save the Children in Pakistan and issued order for its foreign staff to leave the country within 15 days on account of the NGO’s anti-Pakistan activities. (Express Tribune).
• Nuclear program of Iran:
  • A new version of the Israeli-linked malware Duqu is found at hotels hosting Iran nuclear talks by Kaspersky; Israel denies involvement. (The Guardian)

• China's former security chief Zhou Yongkang is given a life sentence for bribery, leaking state secrets and abuse of power. (ABC News Australia)
• Shooting of Tamir Rice
  • A court in the American city of Cleveland, Ohio, finds probable cause that Cleveland Police Department officer Timothy Loehmann should face murder charges in relation to the shooting of Tamar Rice. (Cleveland.com)
• King Felipe VI of Spain strips his sister Cristina of her titles after she is charged with tax evasion. (AFP via Yahoo!)
• Authorities from the Marshal's Service, the FBI, Customs, state and local police, and the Forest Police searching for 6 days in northeastern New York (about 25 miles south of the Canadian border, near Lake Champlain and Vermont, in the Adirondack Forest area, in Dannemora, New York and Plattsburgh, New York) for two high-risk murderers who staged an elaborate escape from the high-security Clinton Correctional Facility- the first there- the night of Friday, June 5, 2015 (it was discovered the next morning), using bloodhounds, find a scent and leftover evidence that could be from the two, Richard Matt and David Sweat. (CNN)

• WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes passes away at the age of 69. (Bleacher Report)

• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Boko Haram militants raid five different villages around Maiduguri, Nigeria killing 37 people. (Reuters)
• Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • The Saudi-led coalition bombs the World Heritage Listed old quarter of Sana'a destroying three houses and killing five people. (AFP via Daily Mail)
• Second Libyan Civil War
  • An armed group storms the Tunisian embassy in Libya taking ten hostages. (al-Arabiyah)
• Operation Protective Edge
  • The Israel Defense Forces Advocate General has announced criminal investigations into three more incidents from Operation Protective Edge. Of the 190 incidents reported to the IDF, investigations have been completed on 105, with seven leading to criminal investigations. (YNet)

• Residents of the Galápagos Islands conduct a strike and protest over decisions by the Ecuador National Assembly to axe cost of living subsidies causing cancellation of flights to and from the islands. (AP via ABC News)
• Public school teachers in the Brazilian state of São Paulo vote to return to work after three months of strike action. (BBC)

• War in Afghanistan
  • The Taliban kill 20 policemen in an attack in Helmand, Afghanistan. (WTVM)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Some 13,000 refugees have crossed into Turkey as Syrian Kurd People's Protection Units encircle the ISIL-held town of Suluk. (AP via Yahoo!)
• War on Terror
  • An American air strike targeting jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar in Libya reportedly kills him. (CNN)

• The trooping the colour ceremony is held in London to celebrate the Queen's Official Birthday while singer Van Morrison and American actor Kevin Spacey are given knighthoods at the Birthday Honours. (CNN), (BBC)
• The wedding of Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland, and Sofia Hellqvist takes place in Stockholm. (BBC News)

• At least 22 Hindu pilgrims died after a van they are travelling in falls into a reservoir in the southern Indian town of Dhavaleswaram in Andhra Pradesh. (AAP via News Limited)

• Immigration to Europe
  • Austria stops processing asylum requests in an effort to pressure other European Union member states to do more to help absorb waves of refugees pouring into the continent. (Irish Times), (Telegraph)
• Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Scheduled talks of 14th June, 2015 between Yemen's Houthi rebels and the exiled government which are brokered by the UN have been postponed with a new schedule set for Monday 15 June, 2015. (The Daily Star (Lebanon) via Reuters
• P5+1
  • Iran asks Austria to secure the talks over its nuclear program following reports of cybersecurity breaches. (AFP via Daily Star)
• Egypt opens its border with the Gaza Strip temporarily for the first time in months. Egypt blames Hamas for the Sinai insurgency. (AP via Daily Star)
• Dozens of migrants who were refused entry to France go on hunger strike at the border crossing in the Italian town of Ventimiglia. (AFP via Daily Star)

• A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in the Texan city of Dallas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police snipers following a car chase and standoff. (AP), (CNN)

• Thousands of people protest in Skopje demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister of Macedonia Nikola Gruevski. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

• War in Afghanistan
  • Fifteen Taliban militants, including the shadow governor for Kunar Province, are killed in a NATO airstrike. (IANS via Business Standard)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Thousands of Syrians flee into Turkey as Kurdish fighters come closer to capturing the border town of Tell Abyad from Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. (AP)

• 2015 Tbilisi flood
  • Flooding in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, destroys animal enclosures at a zoo resulting in the release of potentially dangerous animals and the death of three zookeepers and six other people. (AP), (USA Today), (Reuters, DPA via WA Today)
• 2015 Alaska Sockeye wildfire
  • A wildfire near Willow, Alaska in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough burns over 6,500 acres, numerous structures and closes the George Parks Highway, severing the road link between Anchorage and Fairbanks.(Alaska Dispatch News)

• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
  • A South Korean man is hospitalised in the Slovak capital Bratislava with symptoms of MERS as the death toll in South Korea rises to 15. (Sky News Australia), (Al-Jazeera)

• Save The Children
  • Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan has suspended its order against the NGO Save the Children for closure of its working and allowed the international aid agency to resume its operation in Pakistan. (Express Tribune) (ARY Digital)
• A South Korean official claims that North Korea is placing land mines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone to stop soldiers from defecting. The Korean DMZ already contains an estimated 1 million mines. (Yonhap)

• International Criminal Court investigation in Darfur
  • The International Criminal Court asks South Africa to arrest the President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes when he arrives at the African Union summit. (AFP via Straits-Times)
  • The High Court in Pretoria grants an interim order preventing al-Bashir from leaving South Africa, and postpones the application for his arrest to the next day to allow the government more time to prepare. (News24) (News24)

• Thousands of people march in Hong Kong to demand the Legislative Council reject a China backed proposal for the naming of candidates for Chief Executive be done by a nominating committee. (Bloomberg)

• The European Space Agency's Philae spacecraft wakes up after six months in hibernation as comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko gets closer to the sun. (BBC)

• In motor sport, the Porsche 19 team of Earl Bamber, Nick Tandy and Nico Hulkenberg wins the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans. (Fox Sports)

• At least 23 people are killed and more than 100 injured in suicide attacks on police headquarters and training centers by suspected Boko Haram members in N'Djamena, Chad. (New York Times)
• Balochistan conflict
  • Over 100 Baloch rebels pledge allegiance to the government after abandoning armed struggle. (AFP)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Kurdish YPG forces and Free Syrian Army rebels seize control of the ISIL stronghold of Tell Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah Governorate. (IBT)

• The 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta by King John of England is commemorated around the world. (BBC)

• Drugstore operator CVS Health agrees to buy Target Corporation's pharmacy and clinic businesses for $1.9 billion. (Reuters via CNBC)
• Greek government-debt crisis
  • Greece and its creditors harden their stances after the collapse of talks aimed at preventing a default. (Reuters)
• Russian financial crisis (2014–present)
  • The Central Bank of Russia lowers the interest rate to 11.5%. (Reuters)
• Gap Inc. announces closing 175 stores, including 140 this year, and terminating 250 jobs at its headquarters. (Reuters)
• Beijing Gehua CATV Network announces its plan to partnership Alibaba Group, China Film Group Corporation, and the new firm China TV Theaters Operating Co. Ltd. to expand the video streaming service throughout China, which may resemble Netflix and is called Tmall Box Office (TBO). (Forbes)(Reuters)

• Nepal announces plans to reopen heritage sites in the Kathmandu Valley two months after the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. (BBC)
• 2015 Pacific hurricane season
  • Hurricane Carlos hits southwestern Mexico with heavy rain ahead of making landfall as a tropical storm later in the week. (Reuters via El Econimista)
• 2015 Alaska Sockeye wildfire
  • The wildfire grows to 8,500 acres. (Alaska Dispatch News)

• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
  • The number of deaths resulting from the MERS outbreak in South Korea rises to sixteen with the number of total cases rising to 150. (CNN)

• International Criminal Court investigation in Darfur
  • The High Court in Pretoria rules that the President of Sudan Omar Al-Bashir should be arrested in South Africa and detained pending a formal request from the International Criminal Court. However, immediately after the ruling, the South African Government announces that Al-Bashir has already departed. He is wanted in connection with the war in Darfur. (News24)
• The Vatican to hold first paedophilia trial
  • The Vatican announces that the first hearing in the trial of Józef Wesołowski, a former papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic and a Polish former prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, is scheduled for July 11. (ABC News), (NPR)

• 2016 United States presidential election / Bush family
  • Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida, announces his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination. (CNN)

• 2015 Stanley Cup Finals
  • In ice hockey, the Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2–0 in the sixth game of the Stanley Cup Finals and win the series 4 games to 2. It is the Blackhawks' third win in six years. (The Guardian)

• al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
  • al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula announces that its leader Nasser al-Wuhayshi was killed in a US drone strike last Friday. (BBC)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Kurdish People's Protection Units have captured the border town of Tell Abyad from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces. (Al-Jazeera)
• Libyan Crisis (2011–present)
  • Three of the ten Tunisian consular staff kidnapped last week have been released and negotiation is ongoing about the others. (Reuters via Trust)

• The British Broadcasting Corporation announces that Chris Evans will be the new presenter of the popular Top Gear television series. (BBC)

• Airbus announces plans to build 900 satellites on behalf of the OneWeb satellite constellation with the project starting in 2018. (The Guardian)
• Rupert Murdoch confirms stepping down as the CEO of 21st Century Fox to be succeeded by his son James on July 1, 2015. Rupert will continue as its executive chairman with his eldest son, Lachlan, as a future executive co-chairman. (USA Today)

• 2015 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Texas braces for the impact of Tropical Storm Bill bringing heavy rainfall and renewed flooding. (Accuweather)
• A train crashes with a truck in central Tunisia killing at least 12 people and injuring 70. (Al-Jazeera)
• Six people are killed and eight are injured, some with life-threatening injuries, after a balcony collapses in Berkeley, California, near the campus of the University of California, Berkeley; five of the casualties are students. (NBC News), (AP)

• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues a mandate that all artificial trans fatty acids (trans fats) must be eliminated within three years (2018) from all foods grown, imported to, or sold within the United States. It is the strictest and most final type of ruling, even more so than a black-box warning or a warning to list ingredients, that can be given from the federal agency, which has ultimate jurisdiction over the safety of all food and drug products, public or private, in the United States. The substances occur in processed meats and other foods, and have been repeatedly implicated in atherosclerotic coronary heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers. (MSN), (Washington Post),(CNN Money), (FDA's statement)
• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
  • South Korea reports three more deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome bringing the death toll to 19 with 154 people diagnosed with the disease. (Yonhap)

• Bangladesh's Supreme Court upholds the death sentence against senior Islamist leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed in an appeal hearing. (AFP via France 24)
• An Egyptian court sentences former President Mohamed Morsi to life in prison for conspiring with foreign groups and upholds an earlier preliminary death sentence issued for a prison break. Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat el-Shater and two others are given death sentences. (Al-Jazeera), (AP via Breaking News)

• 2016 United States presidential election
  • Real estate mogul and reality television host Donald Trump announces that he will be a candidate for the Republican Party nomination. (Bloomberg)

• 2015 NBA Finals
  • In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers 105-97 in Game 6 to secure their first title since 1975. Andre Iguodala is named the series MVP. (Fox Sports), (AL.com)

• The American NBC network announces that Lester Holt will continue as the host of the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams returning in an undisclosed role. (The Wrap)

• U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announces that the Treasury will supplement Alexander Hamilton's depiction on the U.S. ten-dollar bill with that of a woman, the identity of which is to be chosen after public debate. (The Hill)
• In the United States, the California Labor Commission ruled that a San Francisco Uber driver is a company employee, not a contractor. Uber appealed this ruling, that would increase the company's costs and liabilities, to the state's court system. A hearing for a class certification of a similar lawsuit against Uber is scheduled for August 2015. (NPR), (Time Magazine) (U.S. News & World Report)

• North Korea runs a campaign to fight water drought, which according to United Nations is the worst within the past 100 years. (Reuters)

• The People's Republic of China and Australia sign a free trade agreement in Canberra as Andrew Robb, Australia's Minister for Trade and Investment, warns that the United States Congress only has weeks to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (CCTV via Twitter), (AP)
• Vietnam accuses China of attacking Vietnamese fishermen in three separate incidents in the South China Sea. (AP)

• Charleston church shooting
  • Nine people are dead following a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. (CNN), (Post and Courier), (ABC News America)
• A California model, Lauren Wasser, files a lawsuit against Kimberly-Clark Corporation for toxic shock syndrome, which resulted in losing her right leg, allegedly caused by the product, Kotex Natural Balance. (Daily Mail)

• Protesters gather outside the Hong Kong Legislative Council ahead of a contentious vote on election of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. (Deutsche Welle)
• The National Diet of Japan votes to lower the voting age from 20 to 18. (Mainichi)

• West African offensive
  • The Chadian Air Force carries out airstrikes against bases of Boko Haram in neighbouring Nigeria to avenge twin bombings in Chad's capital N'Djamena three days ago. (Al Jazeera)
  • The accidental detonation of an explosive device kills 13 vigilantes and injures 53 others near the town of Monguno in northeast Nigeria. The vigilantes were assisting the military in the fight against Boko Haram. (AP via News24)
  • At least 38 people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack on two villages in Niger. (BBC)

• Universal Orlando decides to close Wet 'n Wild Orlando at the end of 2016. It will be replaced by Volcano Bay, which is expected to open in 2017. (Florida Today.com)

• Charleston church shooting
  • Suspected shooter Dylann Roof is arrested at a traffic stop. Roof is suspected of killing nine people including a South Carolinian state senator. He was charged with multiple drug possession in April and reportedly (by CNN) legally bought the gun at a store after passing a background check despite his criminal record. (ABC News) (ITV News)
• The Roman Catholic Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish on the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is damaged by a suspected arson attack. (i24), (Haaretz), (Times of Israel), (BBC)

• Hong Kong electoral reform
  • The Legislative Council of Hong Kong rejects a Beijing-backed electoral reform which sparked the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement. (Wall Street Journal)

• At the Vatican, Pope Francis's officials in the Roman Curia formally release the text of his most recent encyclical, Laudato si'. The text, which had been quite anticipated by many sides on the climate change debate and been criticized by some for his involvement in the politicized and charged issue, had been previously leaked. (Reuters), via MSN, (CNN), (Vatican)
• Muslims begin fasting at the start of the lunar calendar month of Ramadan, 2015.

• A Palestinian cell affiliated with Hamas and named after the perpetrators of the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers claims responsibility for an ambush style attack in which one Israeli was killed and another seriously injured. (Times of Israel)

• The European Central Bank increased the cap on cash available to Greek banks through emergency liquidity assistance, as those banks continue to experience steady withdrawals. Greek citizens have withdrawn over 3 billion Euros in the last month. (Reuters)

• The centre-right opposition bloc led by Venstre wins the 2015 Danish general election, even though the Social Democrat party remains Denmark's largest. The anti-immigration Danish People's Party will be the second-largest in parliament. (BBC) (U.S. News & World Report)
• Hawaii becomes the first U.S. state to raise the smoking age from 18 to 21, effective January 1, 2016, and will also outlaw sales, purchases, or uses of electronic cigarettes for those under 21. (Reuters)

• Second Libyan Civil War
  • Dozens of ISIL militants are killed following a militia attack on the eastern city of Derna. ISIL has had a significant presence in Derna since the end of 2014. (Yahoo)

• In Slovakia, thousands of demonstrators rally against European Union plans to host asylum-seekers, and dozens are detained after they attacked spectators of a cycle race in the capital, Bratislava. (New York Times), (RT)
• 2015 Graz van attack
  • Three people are killed and dozens more are injured as a man drives his car into a crowd in Graz, Austria. (AP via News24)

• Anti-austerity movement
  • Tens of thousands in London demonstrate anti-austerity protests outside the Parliament. (Reuters UK)

• In association football, the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup concludes in Auckland with Serbia defeating Brazil, 2–1, in the final. (AP via ESPN)
• In Major League Baseball, Washington Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer, one strike away from a perfect game, loses his bid when he hits the Pittsburgh Pirates' José Tábata with a pitch. Scherzer retires the next batter to complete a 6–0 win and a no-hitter. (ESPN)

• Ninety-four people die, and 45 others are hospitalized, after drinking moonshine in Mumbai (Bombay), India. (Reuters via News24)

• Ten people are injured in a shooting at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania block party. (AFP via News24) (NBC Philadelphia)
• One person dies and nine others are injured in a shooting at a block party on a basketball court in Detroit, Michigan. (AP via News24) (ABC News)
• A Palestinian teenager is in police custody after he stabbed a policeman who was administrating Jerusalem's Damascus Gate border in the neck, critically injuring the policeman. The policeman then shot and injured the teenager and collapsed. (YNet)

• Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras makes a new offer for reforms which could signal a late deal in the country's debt talks. (ITV News)

• 2015 U.S. Open (golf)
  • In golf, American Jordan Spieth wins his second major championship of the year winning the U.S. Open by a stroke and becomes the first golfer since Gene Sarazen to win two majors before the age of 22. (The Guardian)

• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All 6 of the gunmen are killed, with 18 people injured. (BBC)
• Four people are killed and thirty injured in grenade attacks in Burundi. (AFP via Twitter), (BBC)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Hundreds of Syrian refugees return from Turkey to the border town of Tell Abyad after the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant are expelled by Kurdish People's Protection Units. (Reuters via Daily Star)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • At least 20 people are killed after a female suicide bomber attacks a fish market in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri. The militant Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind the attack. (BBC)

• Over 200 die of heatstroke in Pakistan's Karachi over the weekend in a record heatwave. (DAWN), (CNN)
• A light plane belonging to American composer James Horner crashes in Ventura County, California resulting in his death. (KSBY), (Hollywood Reporter)

• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
  • The number of deaths from MERS in South Korea rises to 27 with three new cases reported. The government is taking unprecedented precautions in terms of public sanitation and quarantine.(Yonhap)
• Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
  • Two new cases of ebola virus disease are reported from Sierra Leone’s capital city of Freetown about three weeks after the most recent new cases were found.(Time)

• Japan announces plans to resume whaling in the Antarctic during the southern hemisphere summer. Commercial whaling has been banned for over 30 years by the International Whaling Commission. (AFP via Straits Times)
• 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
  • A United Nations report finds evidence that both Hamas and Israel committed war crimes during the 2014 conflict. (Haaretz)
• Office of Personnel Management data breach
  • The CNN reports that the size of the Office of Personnel Management data breach could be as large as 18 million past, present and prospective employees of the United States Government. (CNN)

• Charleston church shooting
  • The Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley calls for the Confederate battle flag to be removed from the U.S. Civil War memorial on the grounds of the South Carolina State House. (Washington Post)
  • Walmart, the largest store in the United States, announces that it will withdraw all merchandise featuring the Confederate flag from sale at its stores and online. (CNN)

• Maryland Governor Larry Hogan reveals that he has advanced stage lymphoma. (AP via ABC)

• Syrian Civil War, Military intervention against ISIL
  • The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the military base Brigade 93 and enter the town of Ayn Issa, the first defense line of ISIL north of its de facto capital al-Raqqah.
  • ISIL claims it has started the destruction of the ancient complex of Palmyra. (euronews)

• South Korean author Shin Kyung-sook admits to plagiarising a short story from Japanese author Yukio Mishima. (AP)
• Australian author Sofie Laguna wins the Miles Franklin Award for her novel The Eye of the Sheep. (ABC News Australia)

• The deputy speaker of the Greek parliament, Alexis Mitropoulos, warns that the body may reject concessions the government had made to the country's creditors. (Reuters)

• 2015 Pakistani heat wave
  • The death toll from the 2015 Pakistan heatwave rises to 450. (AFP via Yahoo News)

• South Sudan declares a cholera outbreak after 18 people die and 171 are infected. (Al-Jazeera), (REUTERS)

• Hungary unilaterally suspends European Union asylum seeker rules that require it to take back people who first enter Hungary, then travel to other nations. (Reuters)

• Charleston church shooting
  • Amazon.com announces that it is removing Confederate Flag merchandise from sale following the shootings. (Time)

• The suspension appeal hearings for Tom Brady's 4-game suspension over Deflategate begin today. (New York Times)

• Boko Haram
  • Over 42 people are shot dead by suspected Boko Haram gunmen in two attacks on villages in Nigeria's Borno state. (AFP via Dawn)
• Xinjiang Conflict
  • A police checkpoint on the outskirts of Kashgar in Xinjiang is attacked by ethnic Uighurs, with at least 18 killed according to US-based Radio Free Asia. (BBC)

• Pakistani heat wave
  • The death toll from the heat wave reaches nears 800 in Sindh province with 744 people dead in the city of Karachi alone. (BBC)

• Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
  • The government of South Korea announces that it will provide maximum financial aid to hospitals and clinics affected by the MERS outbreak. (Yonhap)

• The People's Republic of China claims that the Golden Triangle regions of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand are the source of most of its imports of heroin and methamphetamine. The region has been known for drug cultivation for centuries. (AP via ABC News America)
• The President of France François Hollande warns that France "will not tolerate" acts that threaten its security following claims by Wikileaks that the United States spied on him and his two predecessors Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac between 2006 and 2012. (BBC)
• Israel revokes permits for 500 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to enter Jerusalem for Friday prayers following a rocket attack on southern Israel. (AFP via France 24)
• Trans-Pacific Partnership
  • The United States Senate approves a motion giving President Barack Obama fast track authority to complete trade negotiations with 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. (CNBC)
  • The United States Senate passes the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) bills by, respectively, 60–38 and 76–22. (The Hagstrom Report via Tri-State Livestock News)(US Senate Democrats)

• A Dutch court orders the Netherlands to reduce its carbon emissions by at least 25% by 2020. (BBC)
• Boston Marathon bombing
  • Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is formally sentenced to death in a federal court. He confirms his guilt and apologizes to the victims. (CNN)
  • Tsarnev is sent to the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, where 61 other inmates are awaiting their lethal injections. (NBC News)
• China's customs officers seize more than 100,000 t (98,000 long tons; 110,000 short tons) of meat, many of which expired, some more than 40 years ago. (China Daily)(NPR)

• 2016 United States presidential election
  • Bobby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana, announces that he will be a candidate for the Republican Party nomination in the 2016 Presidential election.(New York Times)
• The United States House of Representatives votes 247-180 to allow states to opt out of Barack Obama's carbon emissions reduction if the state governor believes compliance would increase electricity bills too much or have an adverse effect on reliability of supply. (AP)

• In ice hockey:
  • The National Hockey League announces that it has formally opened the process of expanding the league and will begin evaluating bids from interested parties. The most widely speculated expansion markets include Las Vegas, Seattle, Quebec City, and a second team in the Toronto area. (ESPN)
  • Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price wins the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player, the Vezina Trophy as the league's most outstanding goaltender, and the Ted Lindsay Award as the league's most outstanding player as chosen by fellow players. Price becomes the first player to win both the Hart and Vezina Trophies in the same season since José Théodore, also of the Canadiens, in 2002. (AP via ESPN)

• Syrian Civil War
  • Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces re-enter the Kurdish town of Kobanî after a successful large-scale counterattack against the Kurds. (BBC)

• Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, opens a new terminal at Pyongyang Sunan International Airport. (BBC)

• 2015 Pakistani heat wave
  • The death toll from the heat wave passes 1,000 in Sindh province alone. (CNN)
• The wreckage of a small plane carrying eight passengers on a shore excursion from Holland America Line's MS Westerdam cruise ship is discovered near the Alaskan town of Ketchikan. All nine people on board including the pilot died. (AP via Seattle Times)

• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
  • The number of MERS casualties in South Korea rises to 29 with the number of cases rising to 180. (Yonhap)

• India offers Nepal an additional billion dollars to help it recover from the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
• South Africa reviews its participation in the International Criminal Court following a failed attempt to arrest the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, on South African soil. (BBC)
• The Prime Minister of Haiti Evans Paul accuses the Dominican Republic of causing a humanitarian crisis by mass deportation of people mainly from Haiti. (AP via Star Tribune)

• The Committee to Protect Journalists claims that the Government of Egypt has incarcerated 18 journalists, mostly from Al-Jazeera. (AP via The Guardian)
• More than 400 Albanian police supported by Army helicopters surround the village of Lazarat in southern Albania known as the "cannabis Kingdom" where an armed criminal gang has entrenched itself. (AFP via ABCNews Australia)
• A journalist from CNN is shot and killed in the Philippines, the 27th journalist murdered during the administration of Benigno Aquino III. (Rappler)
• King v. Burwell
  • The Supreme Court of the United States upholds key elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) including subsidies for healthcare policies and employer mandates, with a 6-3 vote. (CNBC)

• The United States House of Representatives votes to grant President Barack Obama fast track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (AP)

• In basketball, the 2015 NBA draft is held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, with the Minnesota Timberwolves selecting Karl-Anthony Towns as the first pick. (Los Angeles Times)

• Somali Civil War
  • Al Shabaab militants attack an African Union base in the Leego district of Somalia and kills more than 70 African Union soldiers and seizes control of their military base. (Reuters) (VOA News)
• Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack
  • A man is decapitated and at least two others are injured during an attack in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier as a man carrying an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant flag attacks a factory near the French city of Lyon. (The Local)
• 2015 Kuwait mosque bombing
  • At least 27 people are killed and 227 injured after a suicide bombing at the Shia Imam Sadiq mosque in Kuwait City, Kuwait. ISIL claims responsibility for the attack. (Al Jazeera), (Reuters)
• 2015 Sousse attack
  • Two hotels in Sousse, Tunisia came under attack from an unknown number of gunmen; at least 37 people have been killed and 36 injured. (Sky News), (BBC), (USA Today)
• Syrian civil war
  • June 2015 Kobani massacres
    • Islamic State kills 146 civilians in Kobanî, the second largest massacre since the start of conflict when the extremist group executed 700 members of the al-Sheitaat tribe in eastern Syria. (IBT), (VOA NEWS)
  • An Islamic State suicide bomber kills at least 20 people in the city of Hasakeh. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

• The Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras says that Greece will hold a referendum on a bailout deal with creditors on July 5. (BBC), (Reuters)

• An early monsoon arrives in India resulting in floods in Gujarat state that have killed 60 people so far this week. (Hindustan Times)

• The European Union has reached agreement to share at least 40,000 migrants over two years. (Reuters), (BBC)
• Authorities in Thailand stop the launch of a report by Human Rights Watch on alleged persecution of Montagnard Christians in Vietnam. (AP via ABC News America)

• A South Korean court rules that South Korea is not obliged to pay compensation to its nationals who were victims of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who have not been compensated by Japan. (Yonhap)
• Obergefell v. Hodges:
  • In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court declares state bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional and effectively legalizes it across the United States. (CNN)
• 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape
  • Richard Matt, one of the two escapees, died from gunshot wounds south of the town of Malone, New York. (New York Times)

• Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2015
  • Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena dissolves the Parliament to pave the way for the upcoming parliamentary election. (BBC)

• 2015 NHL Entry Draft
  • The NHL Draft is held at the BB&T Center with the Edmonton Oilers selecting Connor McDavid as their number 1 pick. (Bleacher Report)

• The Alstom Metropolis C830Cs entered service on the Circle MRT line, operated by SMRT Trains Ltd.

• Suspected Islamist militants attack an army base in Nara, Mali leaving three soldiers and eight attackers dead. (Voice of America) (Reuters via News24)
• 2015 Kuwait mosque bombing
  • Kuwait declares a day of mourning for the victims of the bombing of a Shia mosque yesterday. (AFP via Melbourne Age)
  • A mass funeral for the victims of the bombing draws thousands of mourners in Kuwait City. (Brisbane Times)
• 2015 Sousse attacks
  • Tunisia announces plans to close down 80 "propagandist" mosques following yesterday's attacks in which 39 people died. (BBC)
  • Nineteen victims have so far been identified with fifteen from the United Kingdom and one each from Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Portugal. (Boston Herald)(BBC)

• Tonga begins an 11 day coronation ceremony of King Tupou VI. (ABC Australia)

• The People's Bank of China cuts interest rates for a fourth successive time to help stabilize growth. (Wall Street Journal)
• Greek government-debt crisis
  • Eurozone finance ministers reject a request by Greece to extend debt negotiations past Tuesday's deadline. (New York Times)

• Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  • Malaysia announces that they will host a memorial for the victims of MH17 on July 11 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. (Channel NewsAsia)
• 2015 Taiwan water park explosion
  • A midair explosion from flammable powder at a recreational water park in Taiwan injures at least 510 people with about 183 in serious condition in intensive care. (CNN)
• A sandstorm and a magnitude-5.2 earthquake centered in Sinai peninsula hit Egypt. There are no reports of deaths or injuries. (AP via MSN)

• The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees claims that instability ahead of Burundi's Legislative and presidential elections is creating a refugee crisis. (Al-Jazeera)
• Greek economy referendum, 2015
  • The Hellenic Parliament approves the holding of a referendum on a proposed bailout on Sunday 5 July 2015. (AP, Reuters via Breaking News)

• Pope Francis, in an Apostolic Letter, done "Motu Proprio" (Latin: "On his own initiative"), creates the Secretariat for Communications, the second such Secretariat he has created, after the earlier Secretariat for the Economy, as part of a reform of the Roman Curia (Secretariats are the highest level of Curial dicastery, or department). It will incorporate Vatican Information Service (VIS), the News.va and Pope apps, the Vatican Television Center, the Vatican.va website and .va domain name, the L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, the Holy See Press Office, Vatican Radio, and the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. He named the Reverend Monsignor Dario Edoardo Vigano, formerly the Vatican Television Center Director, as the first Prefect. (English translation of Vatican's text of the document), (English translation of the appointment), (Catholic News Agency)

• Kupang LRT station opened along the West Loop of the Sengkang LRT line, the last station along the Sengkang LRT line to be opened.

• 2015 Sousse attacks
  • Tunisia deploys an additional 1000 police in resorts and beaches following the attack on tourists on Friday. (AP)
  • With the number of British dead expected to exceed 30, the U.K. warns its citizens about traveling to certain parts of Tunisia, including the south and near the Libyan border. (AP), (BBC)
• 2015 Kuwait mosque bombing
  • Kuwait claims that the suicide bomber responsible for the attack that killed 27 people was Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a, a citizen of Saudi Arabia. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
• Operation Zarb-e-Azb
  • At least 24 militants are killed in Pakistan Air Force air strikes on positions in the Khyber Agency and North Waziristan. (IANS via the Hindu)
• In Istanbul, Turkish police forces interrupt the LGBT pride parade, which was refused this year due to the holy month Ramadan, by firing water cannons and rubber pellets. (Reuters UK)

• Greek government-debt crisis
  • The BBC reports that the European Central Bank will cap lending to Greece's struggling banks, causing the run on the nation's banks to become even worse. Next week a referendum will be held about leaving the Euro currency. (BBC), (BBC), (Irish Times)
  • Greece announces that it will close banks until July 6, with limits being placed on automatic teller machine withdrawals. The Athens Exchange is also closed as financial conditions worsen. (Reuters), (CNBC)
• The Governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro García Padilla, says that Puerto Rico's debts are "not payable". (New York Times)

• 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
  • The number of deaths from MERS in South Korea rises to 32, with the number of cases stabilizing at 182. (Yonhap)
• A six-year-old boy whose parents refused to have him vaccinated dies of diphtheria, the first case in Spain since 1987. (AFP via MENA-FN)(Fox News Latino)

• 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape
  • Remaining escapee David Sweat is shot and captured in upstate New York near the border with Canada. (NBC News)
• The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating a series of fires at black churches in the states of Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia with three of the four cases confirmed as arson. (Buzzfeed)

• Danish general election, 2015
  • Lars Løkke Rasmussen forms Denmark's first single-party government in 33 years, and Rasmussen himself becomes the first prime minister in 33 years to serve in two non-consecutive terms; Kristian Jensen becomes the sixth foreign minister since 2010. (The Local) (Copenhagen Post)

• An unmanned Space-X Falcon 9 space rocket explodes 2 minutes after take-off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket was on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. This is the third such incident in a year. (Reuters via News24) (CNN)

• Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War
  • The Turkish military is reportedly preparing for an imminent invasion of northern Syria following a National Security Council meeting. The aim is to establish a buffer zone for refugees and drive back Islamic State militants. The Kurdish militia group YPG have said they will oppose any Turkish intervention in Syria. Turkey has for decades fought against Kurdish separatist movements such as the PKK (Telegraph)
• Four Israelis were shot and injured in a drive-by shooting attack near Shilo, as a manhunt begins for the suspects. (YNet)
• A Palestinian woman was arrested after stabbing and seriously wounding a female IDF soldier at a checkpoint near Bethlehem. (Haaretz)
• Five Chadian security officials and six militants have been killed during an explosion in a raid in the capital N'Djamena. (BBC)
• Egypt's state prosecutor Hisham Barakat dies in a bomb attack in Cairo. (AP via Fox News)
• War in Afghanistan:
  • According to witnesses who fled fighting in Nangarhar province, fighters loyal to Islamic State seize substantial territory in Afghanistan for the first time, wresting areas in the east from rival Taliban insurgents in a new threat to stability, scorching opium poppy fields that help to fund the Taliban's campaign to overthrow the Afghan government. (Newsweek)
• Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)
  • A car bomb explodes behind a military hospital in the Yemeni capital Sana'a causing 28 casualties. Islamic State has claimed responsibility. (AP), (AFP via France 24)

• The Israeli Navy intercepts and takes control of the lone ship still involved in Freedom Flotilla III and pilots it to Ashdod. The other three ships involved had already turned back after being intercepted. Israel offered all ships to unload their humanitarian aid cargo in Israeli ports and transport it into Gaza for free but the ships refused. (Israel National News)(Times Of Israel)
• The United States Office of Personnel Management closes down its system for employee background checks following the theft of millions of records in a computer hacking incident suspected to be conducted by Chinese hackers. (Breaking News)

• The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the use of capital punishment by lethal injection involving midazolam. (USA Today)
• The California State Legislature passes a bill which would enact a state requirement for the vaccination of children enrolled in schools. The bill is now pending Governor Jerry Brown's approval before going into law. (Los Angeles Times)

• Burundian legislative election, 2015
  • Voters in Burundi go to the polls for a legislative election with several polling places attacked overnight. (Al-Jazeera)
• Puerto Rico government-debt crisis
  • Governor Alejandro García Padilla said the region has failed attempts and is unable to pay off the $72 billion debt. (USA Today)
• U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Defending Public Safety Employees Retirement Act (H.R. 2146), renewing Trade Promotion Authority, and the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (H.R. 1295), extending Trade Adjustment Assistance. (Farm Futures)(Brownfield)(AP)
• NBC drops support of 2016 United States Presidential candidate Donald Trump after Trump gives a campaign speech which includes remarks considered by some to be racist.(The Washington Post)

• A robot kills a man, who was a contractor, at a Volkswagen production plant in Baunatal, Germany. Spokesman Heiko Hillwig said the 22-year-old victim was part of a team that was setting up the robot when it grabbed and crushed him against a metal plate. The death was preliminarily attributed to human error, rather than any issue with the robot itself; prosecutors are contemplating whether to charge anybody. (MSN)

• Guus Hiddink, the head coach of the Netherlands national football team, prematurely resigns before the end of his term. (Espnfc)

• al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
  • Some 1,200 people escape from a Yemeni prison including al Qaeda members. (AP via TVNZ)

• Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
  • Seven out of 57 countries defer joining the China-dominated bank. While most of them cite temporary procedural constraints at home, political reasons are involved with the case of the Philippines amid a territorial dispute with China in South China Sea. (The Wall Street Journal), (The Philippine Star)
• Greek government-debt crisis
  • The Greek bailout program by the European Union ends today with Greece failing to make a payment to the International Monetary Fund. (AP), (AP) (AFP via The Australian)
• British reinsurance broker the Willis Group announces a merger with American company Towers Watson to create an $18 billion company. (FT)

• 2015 Indonesian military plane crash
  • A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people onboard crashes in a residential area in the Indonesian city of Medan, resulting in at least 116 deaths. (AP), (BBC) (NBC News)
• A man self-immolates aboard a Nozomi Shinkansen train running from Tokyo to Osaka; the man and another passenger die. Eleven others were reported injured. (NHK World)

• Governor of California Jerry Brown signs a bill into law requiring all children to get vaccinations before being allowed to go to school or day care. (SFgate)

• The Supreme Court of the Philippines asks the government to respond to a petition seeking to repeal a law banning same-sex marriage in the country. (Rappler)

• 2016 United States presidential election:
  • New Jersey governor Chris Christie formally announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential election. (CNN)

• A leap second is added to the clock for the first time in 3 years. (BBC)

• The United States defeats Germany 2-0 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to reach the Final of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. (CNN)