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Portal:Current events/2014 June 18

June 18, 2014 (2014-06-18) (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economics
  • Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asks parliament to dismiss the country's central bank governor, Stepan Kubiv. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
  • The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency reports that a boat carrying 97 Indonesians has capsized with 66 missing. (AP via Fox News)
  • June 16th- 18th Tornado outbreak continues. Tornadoes rip through parts of the northern plains region again affecting mainly South Dakota. Two towns hard hit are Wessington Springs, SD, by an EF2 tornado, and Alpena, SD, by an EF4 tornado.
Politics and elections
Health
  • 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak
    • Seven people are reported to have died from the latest outbreak of Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. (BBC News)
Law and crime
  • Former President of Turkey Kenan Evren, 96, is given a life sentence for his role in the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. (Euronews)
  • The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, a tribunal of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, rules 2–1 to cancel several trademarks of the NFL's Washington Redskins on the basis that they were "disparaging to Native Americans." The cancellation will be stayed while the team appeals in federal court, a process likely to take years. (ESPN)
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