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Portal:Current events/2012 June 4

June 4, 2012 (2012-06-04) (Monday)
Armed conflict and attacks
  • Mexican Drug War: gunmen kill 11 people at a rehabilitation clinic in the city of Torreón, Coahuila. (Reuters)
  • A US drone attack kills at least 15 suspected militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region. High ranked al-Qaeda official Abu Yahya al-Libi is killed in the attack. (AFP via NineMSN) (The Guardian)
  • A car bomb explodes near Iraqi government offices in central Baghdad, killing at least 26 and injuring 190. Eight others are killed in additional attacks across the country. (AP via The Brisbane Times) (Antiwar)
  • Buddhist vigilantes attack a bus in western Myanmar, killing nine Muslim passengers. (Reuters)
  • Aftermath of the Libyan civil war:
    • A heavily armed militia takes over a runway at the Tripoli International Airport, demanding the release of their leader who went missing. (BBC)
    • A Libyan military court sentences a group of Russian, Belarussian and Ukrainian men to long prison terms, having found them guilty of serving as mercenaries for Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan Civil War. A Russian who was deemed the group's leader was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the rest were sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labor. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
Business and economy
Disasters
  • At least 23 people are killed and 60 injured after a bus carrying a wedding party crashes near the Pakistani capital Islamabad. (AFP via Perth Now)
Law and crime
Politics
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