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June 7, 2014 (Saturday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant gunmen storm the campus of the University of Anbar, killing three guards and holding dozens of students hostage before withdrawing. (Sky News) (AP)
- The dead bodies of 21 policemen who were kidnapped a day before by militants are recovered in Mosul, Iraq. (IANS via Biharprabha)
- At least 52 people are dead following a series of bombings in Baghdad. (AP via Business Week)
At least 37 people are killed in an attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province. (Sky News)

Disasters and accidents

Flash flooding in Afghanistan's Baghlan province kills at least 65 people and forces thousands of people to relocate. (BBC News)
Actor/comedian Tracy Morgan is taken to ICU at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital following a six-vehicle chain-reaction crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed friend & fellow comedian James McNair. (CNN)

Law and crime

Ten supporters of former President of Egypt Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement are sentenced to death in absentia for allegedly inciting violence and blocking a road last July. (AP via New Zealand Herald)
Altaf Hussain, the exiled founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Pakistan, is released in London on money laundering charges. (ABC Australia and AFP)
Dennis Marx of the sovereign citizen movement opened fire with an assault rifle outside a Georgia courthouse Friday in an attempt to take hostages, wounded a deputy before he was killed in a shootout with officers.(Fox News)

Politics and elections

Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as the President of Ukraine as the Pro-Russian separatist conflict continues. (NDTV) (BBC News)
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer of the Israeli Labor Party withdraws from the presidential election on 10 June as a result of a graft probe. (AP via Washington Post)
UK Education Secretary Michael Gove apologises to Prime Minister David Cameron over a row with Home Secretary Theresa May about how to tackle Islamic extremism following recent revelations about a Muslim plot to take over schools in Birmingham. (BBC News)

Sports

Horse racing:
- Australia wins the Derby Stakes. Trainer Aidan O'Brien becomes the first trainer to win the Derby for three successive years. (BBC)
- Tonalist, ridden by Joel Rosario, wins the 2014 Belmont Stakes, denying California Chrome the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. (TheWrap)
In tennis, Maria Sharapova of Russia wins her second title in the French Open women's singles defeating Simona Halep of Romania 6-4, 6-7, 6-4. (The Telegraph)
In hurling, Kilkenny and Offaly meet at Nowlan Park in the opening round of the Leinster Championship, the first time a Championship fixture is broadcast live to a UK-wide audience on Sky Sports. (The Irish Times) (The Banter)

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