June 2011

June 2011 was the sixth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Wednesday, ended on a Thursday after 30 days.

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June 1, 2011 (Wednesday)
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June 2, 2011 (Thursday)
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  • Following the PlayStation Network outage, the Sony website SonyPictures.com has been hacked, with unencrypted passwords and personal information of Sony customers within the website's database being discovered by the hackers. (BBC)
  • Canada Post workers prepare to start a mail strike as last minute talks fail. (CBC)
  • The 2011 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group "C40" summit concludes in São Paulo. (New York Times)
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June 3, 2011 (Friday)
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  • Syrian uprising:
    • At least 34 more protesters are killed by Syrian security forces in protest marches dedicated to children who have died during the demonstrations. (The Telegraph) (The New York Times)
    • U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that more than 1,000 people have now died in Syria since the conflict began. (CNN)
  • Libyan Civil War:
    • At least 150 people drown when an overcrowded boat carrying about 850 refugees fleeing Libya capsized off the Tunisian coast; scores more are still missing as a search for survivors by Tunisian authorities continues. (CNN)
  • Sudanese government troops and Sudan Liberation Army rebels clash in the western Darfur region; two SLA rebels are reported killed. (Reuters)
  • More than 200 Afghan militants cross over into Pakistan and attack a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, sparking a clash in which 28 Pakistani security forces and six civilians die, along with 45 Afghans. (CNN)
  • Somali government forces and African Union troops expel al Qaeda-linked militants from their last outpost in the western part of Mogadishu, opening up a main road in the city. (CNN)
  • In two bombing attacks in Iraq, 17 people are killed and 50 others wounded in a blast outside of the Presidential Palaces Mosque in central Tikrit, Iraq; and later by a suicide bomber in a Tikrit hospital treating the wounded from the first attack, killing six people and injuring ten at the hospital. (CNN)
  • 2011 Egyptian revolution: A female journalist is attacked in Cairo's Tahrir Square while covering a demonstration demanding an immediate trial for former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak. (RIA Novosti)
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June 4, 2011 (Saturday)
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June 5, 2011 (Sunday)
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June 6, 2011 (Monday)
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June 7, 2011 (Tuesday)
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June 8, 2011 (Wednesday)
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  • Indian social activist Anna Hazare begins a second hunger strike against corruption. (Al Jazeera)
  • The British government has indicated it is rethinking its controversial proposal to offer 50% sentence cuts to criminals in England and Wales who enter early guilty pleas. (BBC)
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June 9, 2011 (Thursday)
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June 10, 2011 (Friday)
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June 11, 2011 (Saturday)
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June 12, 2011 (Sunday)
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June 13, 2011 (Monday)
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June 14, 2011 (Tuesday)
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  • In the first case of its kind to be heard in the United Kingdom, a former juror who admitted contacting a defendant via Facebook has been convicted of contempt of court. (BBC)
  • Another land campaigner is shot dead in Brazil's Amazon Basin with five activists shot dead in the past month. (BBC)
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June 15, 2011 (Wednesday)
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June 16, 2011 (Thursday)
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June 17, 2011 (Friday)
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  • Reuters quotes commodities traders who have observed in recent months that "violent, often inexplicable price moves" are becoming a good deal more common, especially in energy commodities such as natural gas. (Reuters)
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June 18, 2011 (Saturday)
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  • Oil prices hit a four-month low, with oil now at USD $93 per barrel. (Reuters)
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June 19, 2011 (Sunday)
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  • More than two million people are reported to have been displaced or otherwise affected by flooding in the Chinese province of Zhejiang. (AP via MSNBC)
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June 20, 2011 (Monday)
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  • European sovereign debt crisis:
    • Eurozone finance ministers agree to seek a voluntary rollover of Greek debt by private bondholders in order to meet a substantial part of Greek funding needs. (Reuters)
    • Eurozone finance ministers postpone a final decision on Greece's $17 billion emergency loans extension until Greece introduces further cuts. (Al Jazeera)
    • British Labour MP and former foreign secretary Jack Straw says the eurozone "will collapse" and that the euro will succumb to a "slow death". (BBC)
  • Afghan finance minister Omar Zakhilwal is reported to be "running out of patience" with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the IMF's rejection of a plan to deal with Kabul Bank. Zakhilwal is also reported to have said that further talks with the IMF would be "a waste of time". (BBC)
  • Financial group and banking firm PNC Financial Services is to acquire RBC Bank from the Royal Bank of Canada for US$3.45 billion. (Forbes)
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June 21, 2011 (Tuesday)
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  • 2011 Yemeni uprising: 2,000 Ethiopian migrants are evacuated from the country. (BBC)
  • 2011 Syrian uprising: Security forces kill seven people during clashes between opposition and pro-government supporters in three cities. (Al Jazeera)
  • 2011 Libyan civil war:
    • NATO's command centre in Naples loses contact with an MQ-8 Fire Scout drone during reconnaissance operations over Libya. (BBC)
  • At least 20 people are killed when a car bomb explodes outside a local governor's house in Al Diwaniyah in Iraq. (Reuters via MSNBC)
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  • A Chinese court sentences a forklift driver to death for killing a protester in an incident that started unrest in Inner Mongolia. (Straits Times)
  • A French court upholds a life sentence for Yvan Colonna, a former shepherd and Corsican separatist convicted of fatally shooting police prefect Claude Érignac near a concert hall in Ajaccio in 1998. Colonna has denied killing Érignac. (BBC)
  • Former French minister Georges Tron, who resigned last month due to allegations of sexual assault, is arrested by police. (BBC)
  • British Prime Minister David Cameron confirms that controversial plans to allow sentence reductions of up to 50% for criminals who plead guilty in England and Wales have been scrapped. (BBC)
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  • In a rare House of Commons procedure, British MPs have voted by a majority of 73 to have parts of the controversial Health and Social Care Bill re-examined by the Health Select Committee. (BBC)
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June 22, 2011 (Wednesday)
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  • A vigil is held in London to demand the release of journalist Urunboy Usmonov, imprisoned by authorities in Tajikistan last week. Usmonov is reported to be in ill health. (BBC)
  • Some 450 people are arrested in Belarus after protests against the Government's economic policies. (RIA Novosti)
  • The Japanese Diet votes to extend its session until August 31 so that it can consider key legislation. (NHK World)
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June 23, 2011 (Thursday)
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  • A study finds that the 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak was a mix of two dangerous E. coli strains. (AP via USA Today)
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June 24, 2011 (Friday)
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June 25, 2011 (Saturday)
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  • The number of adults with diabetes in the world has more than doubled since 1980, according to a new study. (BBC)
June 26, 2011 (Sunday)
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  • The so-called "LulzSec" hackers have reportedly disbanded after a final data dump including information from AOL Inc. and AT&T. (Reuters)
  • The sentence for a drug possession conviction of the nephew of deposed Tunisian President, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, is increased after he appeals it. (CNN)
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  • The strain of E. coli blamed for 46 deaths in Germany appears to have resurfaced in France, sickening eight people, who have been hospitalized in Bordeaux. (CNN)
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June 27, 2011 (Monday)
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June 28, 2011 (Tuesday)
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June 29, 2011 (Wednesday)
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  • A lawsuit of $25 million is brought by the mother of a U.S. teen, who was kidnapped, bound and forced to consume alcoholic substances before his death at a fraternity house, against the group responsible for his ordeal in the U.S. state of New York. (BBC)
  • Six members of a paramilitary force and a civilian are charged with murder in relation to the death of unarmed Sarfaraz Shah in Karachi, whose 8 June shooting was filmed and later broadcast on television. (BBC)
  • A court ruling restricting the powers of police bail throws thousands of cases in England and Wales into disarray. (BBC)
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June 30, 2011 (Thursday)
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