Portal:Current events/2010 June 13

Current events of June 13, 2010 (2010-06-13) (Sunday)

• 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis:
  • Tensions remain high in Kyrgyzstan, with police patrolling the streets and special forces standing guard in the city of Osh, after ethnic clashes left more than 100 people dead and about 1,000 others injured since fighting broke out Thursday night. (CNN) (Aljazeera)
  • Russia sends in troops to protect its facilities. (Xinhua)
  • Tens of thousands of people flee across the border into Uzbekistan. (BBC)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
  • Arriving in the Gaza Strip for the first time since Israel blockaded it in 2006, Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, calls for the blockade to be ended. (Aljazeera) (Xinhua) (Voice of America)
  • United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice tells Fox News that Israel is capable of conducting a credible investigation into the fatal Gaza flotilla raid on its own terms. (Ynetnews)
  • Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak cancels an official two-day trip to France at short notice, while several French members of the flotilla and three MPs plan to file a lawsuit against him in France and at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. (Ynetnews) (AP) (The Jerusalem Post)
• Joran Van der Sloot told he'll reveal for the investigators the location of U.S teen Natalee Holloway's body if authorities transfer him to an Aruban jail from his current jail in Peru.Fox News
• An explosion injures 24 people at a rally opposed to a new draft constitution in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. (BBC) (Capital FM)
• Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is appointed by President Ivan Gašparovič to form a new government. (Xinhua)
• The Belgian elections take place amid a possibility of partition. (Xinhua)
• Fighting between government troops and police in Somalia leaves at least 13 people dead and 14 injured in the capital Mogadishu. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters Africa)
• At least two people are killed and 20 injured in a stampede at a peace concert in Côte d'Ivoire. (BBC) (Philippine Inquirer)
• Two people are killed and six others are wounded during four explosions close to the entrance of the Iraqi central bank building in downtown Baghdad. (Xinhua)
• A 7.5-magnitude earthquake west of India's Nicobar Islands causes tremors felt along India's eastern seaboard and triggers a tsunami watch, which is later cancelled. (AFP) (NDTV)
• A London School of Economics report finds that Pakistan's largest intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, is secretly funding and training the Afghan Taliban. (BBC)
• South Korea's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Lee Sang-eui offers to retire over the recent warship sinking. (Xinhua)
• Freed Swiss businessman Max Goeldi is due to leave Libya. (Xinhua)