Portal:Current events/2009 June 24
June 24, 2009 (Wednesday)
- Togo abolishes the death penalty. (BBC)
- China blocks Google services. (The Guardian)
- A flute carved over 35,000 years ago, and thought to be the oldest musical instrument in the world, is unearthed in Germany. (BBC) (National Geographic) (The New York Times)
- Mark Sanford, Governor of the U.S. state of South Carolina, admits to adultery with an Argentine woman and resigns as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association. (Politico)
- Iran
- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declares the recent election result will stand. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Further violent clashes break out in Tehran. (CNN) (The New York Times)
- A number of Britons are arrested in Tehran following clashes between protesters and police, Iran state television reports. (Sky News)
- At least 43 people are killed by United States aircraft in South Waziristan, Pakistan. (BBC) (France 24) (RTÉ)
- The Chinese government formally arrests dissident Liu Xiaobo on charges of state subversion. (Wall Street Journal) (Al Jazeera) (Press TV)
- The United States is to send an ambassador to Syria after an absence of four years. (Al-Arabiya)
- A bomb kills two people and injures six others in Chechnya, Russia. (Xinhua) (RIA Novosti)
- Former detainees allege abuses at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. (BBC) (AFP)
- More than 60 are killed and 150 are injured after a bombing in Baghdad. (BBC)
- Seven members of Bolivia's Mennonite Christian community are detained over the alleged rape of 60 women or girls from their own community. (BBC) (Reuters)