Portal:Current events/2007 June 10

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Current events of June 10, 2007 (2007-06-10) (Sunday) edit history watch

The Palestinian Journalist Syndicate criticizes Islamic Jihad militants for using a vehicle marked with a "TV" sign to approach Gaza's frontier border with Israel in an attempt to kidnap an Israel Defense Forces soldier from a position across the border. (Haaretz) On the Sunday talk show Meet the Press, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell calls for the immediate closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. (NBC News) France holds a parliamentary election; early projections indicate that President Nicolas Sarkozy's center-right UMP party will secure a comfortable victory. (BBC) Belgium holds a general election. Liberal Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is expected to lose power to the Christian Democrats of Yves Leterme. (Reuters) Five people are killed in a ferry fire in the Philippines. (AP) President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai escapes an apparent assassination attempt. (AP)