The Israeli Defense Forces kill two Palestinians terrorists in Gaza who were attempting to cross the border fence, after an exchange of gunfire. Israel closes four settlements, Route 323 and schools as a result of the incident. (The Jerusalem Post)
The Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli soldiers have engaged and killed what they describe as three "terrorists" who had fired Kassam Rockets into Israeli lands. No injuries were reported from the rocket attacks.(The Jerusalem Post)
The head of Gaza emergency services confirms that these three Palestinian bodies were retrieved and brought to a morgue in Gaza City. (Aljazeera)
Arts and culture
The Nanjing Metro opens its Line 2, extending its route length from 22km to 85km, and the number of stations from 16 to 57. (Railway Gazette)
The Iranian ambassador in Baghdad says the recent release of two Iranians from Iraqi custody is not an indication of any impeding deal to free three Americans held in Tehran on spying charges since their capture in July 2009 while hiking in northern Iraq's mountainous Kurdish region. (USA Today)
The United States insists any Afghan peace deal must ensure women's rights as Afghanistan prepares to open a peace conference aimed at persuading Taliban leaders to put down their weapons. (USA Today)
Survivors of the Israeli assault on the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla return to Greece and Turkey, providing the first eyewitness accounts of the attack. (The Guardian)(BBC)
Israel announces it has imprisoned an official figure of 487 of the people it captured in its commando raid on the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla, while 48 others will be officially expelled after being brought into Israel by Israeli authorities yesterday. (The Sydney Morning Herald)(AFP)
Israel'sambassador to Denmark, Arthur Avnon, announces that the Israeli military had received rumours of a report which asserted a link between the flotilla and Al-Qaida. (FOX News)(News24)
Hundreds of Israelis gather outside the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv in protest against Turkey's involvement in the Gaza flotilla. (Ynetnews)
Turks protest for a second day, marching in front of Istanbul's Israeli consulate, and several are arrested in Ankara after encountering police in front of the Israeli Embassy there. (ABC News)
Reports are released regarding the nationalities of those captured after the flotilla raid. (Asia One News)(The Age)
Reports are also released expressing concern for captured international journalists, including those from Aljazeera and Astro Awani, while media organisations are asked to act for the release of all journalists in Israeli custody and to request their freedom to practice their profession without pressure and harassment. (ArabNews)(NDTV)
Turkey calls for sanctions against Israel. The United States, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, acts to mitigate the language of the Security Council's draft statement which condemned Israel's action "in the strongest terms", opting instead for one that requests an "impartial" investigation of the deaths and condemns the "acts" that led to it. (The Times)
As climate talks get under way in Bonn, Thomas Hale and Scott Moore call for a radical new approach to cutting emissions that sidesteps intergovernmental deadlock and unites eager players, from Wal-Mart to city halls. (China Dialogue)
The Israel Defense Forces claims that the 10 tonnes of aid delivered in the Free Gaza flotilla was turned back by Hamas when delivered to the border at Rafah, with Hamas stating that it will only accept the aid if all flotilla activists imprisoned in Israel are freed, and that the aid be delivered by the flotilla organizers. (CNN)
Turkey announces its intention to cut all ties with Israel unless the dead and captured flotilla activists are returned by the end of the day, and sends doctors to Israel to supervise the treatment of wounded Turkish activists in Israeli hospitals. (Aljazeera)
Israeli-Arab MPHaneen Zoubi, who accompanied the flotilla and was arrested but released before the other activists due to parliamentary immunity, tells a press conference in Nazareth that Israel intended to kill peace activists as a way to deter future aid convoys and says she witnessed two passengers slowly bleed to death, while Hebrew messages requesting medical assistance for them were ignored. (The National)
Irish TaoiseachBrian Cowen asks that the Israeli government exercise "absolute restraint" in relation to its dealings with Irish citizens captured in the raid. (RTÉ)
Israel releases all activists captured during the Gaza flotilla raid and sends them for deportation as the Attorney General states "keeping them here would do more damage to the country's vital interests than good". (Al Jazeera)(BBC)(The Guardian)
The Government of Kenya announces that 2.3 million bags of maize are unfit for human consumption due to contamination with high levels of aflatoxins, which have killed at least one child. (BBC)
British Airways issues an apology for a photograph in a staff magazine which implied Osama Bin Laden had a frequent flyer boarding pass for first class. (BBC)
The Israeli Foreign Ministry says 527 of the captured activists, as well as the bodies of those killed, have been placed on flights bound for Turkey and Greece: seven more are still in hospital: three other captured activists — one man and two women from Australia, Ireland and Italy — remain in Israel "for technical reasons". (New Straits Times)
At least 20 people are killed and 60 injured in heavy fighting between government forces and Islamist militants in the capital Mogadishu. (CNN)(BBC)(Sify)
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) fines JPMorgan Securities a record sum of £33.32 million ($48.2 million) for failure to protect the money of its clients. (BBC)
The MARS-500 project begins, with six men - three Russians, two Europeans and a Chinese man - entering the sealed facility in Moscow where they will spend 18 months in isolation from the outside world. (BBC)(RIA Novosti)
The earliest surviving complete census of Ireland is made available online for the first time and reveals details on the early life of James Joyce as well as other famous writers and politicians. (The Irish Times)(RTÉ)
Prime Minister of TurkeyRecep Tayyip Erdoğan gives a televised speech in which he states that he does not view Hamas as a terrorist organization, but as "resistance fighters who are struggling to defend their land". Thousands of people rally at a memorial service in Istanbul for one of those killed in the raid. (BBC)
The pro-government militia group of Ahlu Sunnah Waljama (ASW) in Somalia claims to have killed at least 91 Islamist fighters and wounded 170 others in Thursday's fierce clashes. (China.org)
A Joint Base Lewis–McChord United States Army soldier is charged with three counts of premeditated murder in connection with the deaths of three Afghan civilians. (KIRO TV)
41 people have been killed in fighting over the past three days in Sudan's western region of Darfur according to a Sudan tribal leader. (AFP)
An attack of rockets kills six US soldiers and wounds about a dozen others in Baghdad, Iraq. Two more bombs go off elsewhere but no deaths are reported. (Aljazeera)(CNN)
Disasters
A passenger train, with about 60 passengers, travelling between Glasgow and Obanderails leaving the carriages perched over an embankment. (BBC)
9 passengers are injured and a train carriage left dangling over an embankment after a derailment in Scotland. (Sky News)
The number of migrant workers who died or were injured at South Korea's workplaces has risen over the last three years to reach nearly 14,500. (Yonhap)
International relations
The Cyprus-based Free Gaza Movement packs up and leaves Cyprus for London after the Cypriot government's decision to interfere with and disrupt last week's international aid flotilla. (Xinhua)
22-year-old U.S. Army intelligence analyst, SPC Bradley Manning, is named as the alleged source of the leak of the Collateral murder video, along with the Granai massacre video and other documents, said to be in the possession of Wikileaks. (Wired)(BBC)
A nearly 25-year study published today in Paediatrics concludes that children raised in lesbian households are "psychologically well-adjusted" and have "fewer behavioral problems than their peers". (CNN)
At least 11 people die and injuries are caused in various fatal incidents across Iraq, including several civilians, a Sunni Imam and a Christian. (BBC)
The United States threatens Iran with its toughest nuclear sanctions yet, despite the nuclear fuel-swap arrangement Iran made with Brazil and Turkey in May. (BBC)
The Red Crescent Society, for the first time since December 2008 and in a joint venture between Iran and Turkey, prepares to send two aid boats of donations and relief workers to Gaza. (The Times)
Public sector workers in Spain hold a major strike in protest against a 5% pay cut due to come into effect this month as part of a government austerity package. (CNN)(Financial Times)
Around 60 unsuccessful Iraqi asylum applicants are forcibly and controversially deported to Baghdad from Britain, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. Amnesty International condemns the move as the deportees face violence and mutilation in that city. (Aljazeera)
There is controversy in Egyptian media after an Egyptian member of parliament who was on the Gaza-bound flotilla says that the flotilla participants overpowered three Israeli commandos and took their weapons from them. (Ynetnews)
Kikaya Bin Karubi, the Congolese ambassador to the UK, says Les Resistants Combattants have said Saturday's arson attack on his London home, which destroyed several vehicles and damaged his house, was an act of retaliation for last week's death of leading human rights activist Floribert Chebeya. (BBC)
The UK government brings forward new rules which make it compulsory for immigrants from outside the European Union, particularly South Asia, to understand the English language. (BBC)
The same-sex couple, who recently came to international attention when they were convicted of homosexuality under a British colonial law, tell Malawi's The Nation that they have separated and that one of them now lives with a woman. (BBC)
Dozens of workers in China are hurt during labour strikes, with at least 2,000 workers clashing with police in the city of Kunshan. (AFP)(Press TV)(China Daily)
A new in-depth genetic study on Jewish history is published in Nature: researchers analysed genetic samples from 14 international Jewish communities and 69 international non-Jewish communities. (BBC)
Researchers find that many species of snakes are in decline. The causes are unknown.(BBC)(Biol. Lett.)
The Obama administration announces that BP will speed up claims payments stemming from the massive Gulf oil spill, to fishermen, property owners and businesspeople who have filed damage claims and are complaining of delays, excessive paperwork and inadequate compensation. (USA Today)(AP)
A new government calculation suggests that an amount of oil equivalent to approximately 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil could have been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico before BP capped some of the flow on June 3, an amount that is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day. (The New York Times)
International relations
A group of GermanJews prepare to send a ship with humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. (AFP)
Russia announces plans to sell IranS-300 ground-to-air missiles, stating that the new United Nations sanctions do not cover stationary air defense weaponry. (Ynetnews)
Law and crime
Seven former British soldiers join 98 American soldiers to sue American defence firm KBR, who they say exposed them to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in Iraq. (BBC)
Shizuka Kamei, minister in charge of postal reform and financial services, quits after three days in protest over Kan's decision to delay a bill related to the proposed postal service privatisation. (The Australian)
At least 11 civilians and two US soldiers are killed in southern Afghanistan: 9 of the civilian deaths are in a roadside bomb on a minibus in Kandahar. (Aljazeera)
Clashes erupt in Tehran as some protesters come out to demonstrate and dozens are detained as security forces disperse them. (Ynetnews)(Los Angeles Times)
The Government of Cuba releases imprisoned paraplegic dissident Ariel Sigler on humanitarian grounds and transfers six others to more convenient jails. (BBC)
Tensions remain high in Kyrgyzstan, with police patrolling the streets and special forces standing guard in the city of Osh and Jalal-Abad, after ethnic clashes left more than 100 people dead and about 1,400 others injured since fighting broke out Thursday night. (TVNZ)(CNN)(Aljazeera)
Two people are killed and six others are wounded during four explosions close to the entrance of the Iraqi central bank building in downtown Baghdad. (Xinhua)
South Korea's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Lee Sang-eui offers to retire over the recent warship sinking. (Xinhua)
Britain's most senior military officer, Sir Jock Stirrup, agrees to leave before the end of his term in April 2011, according to the country's Defence Secretary Liam Fox. (BBC)(The Irish Times)(Xinhua)
Churches in Kenya accuse the government of being behind a grenade attack at a rally opposed to a draft constitution which killed six people. (BBC)(AP)(Daily Nation)
A team of American geologists and Pentagon officials say they have discovered vast mineral wealth, including iron, gold and lithium, estimated to be worth nearly US$1 trillion, in Afghanistan, though other senior officials say this has been known since at least the 1970s. (CBS News)(Politico)(The Guardian)(AP)
The arrest of several army officers in Guinea is not linked to elections, according to the country's army chief. (BBC)
The European Union presses Israel to lift its blockade of Gaza, as EU members meet in Luxembourg to discuss ways that Europe could renew its role in helping supervise Gaza's border crossings. (Yahoo! News)
56 nations rebuke Iran for its human rights record, expressing concern over the violent suppression of dissent, detention and executions without due process of law, severe discrimination against women and minorities including people of Baháʼí faith, and restrictions of expression and religion. (AP)
A US marine convicted in the Hamdania incident, one of the worst war crimes from the Iraq War, and sentenced to eleven years in prison in 2006 is released from prison after a military appeals court in Washington decides he did not receive a fair trial. The Navy is appealing that court's decision.(PA)(AP)(Aljazeera)(Gulf News)(The Washington Post)
Militants kill 12 police officers in a string of attacks and six civilians die in bombings in Afghanistan, and a U.S. soldier is killed in a gun battle in eastern Afghanistan in the latest fighting in the war in Afghanistan. (USA Today)
The trial begins of 33 alleged members of Ergenekon over alleged plans to topple the Turkish government, while groups hold small protests outside the courthouse in their favour. (Aljazeera)(BBC)(euronews)
The report concludes that British paratroopers "lost control", fired the first shot without warning, shot fleeing civilians, and concocted lies to cover up their acts, while the civilians did not throw stones or petrol bombs as a previous inquiry had claimed. (BBC)(The Irish Times)(CNN)(The Wall Street Journal)
Relatives of those shot by the British Army gather to hear the results and applaud the findings. (euronews)
Islamist gunmen in Somalia shoot two people dead and detain 10 others who were watching a televised FIFA World Cup match; a member of one group later said watching the World Cup is anti-Islamic. (CNN)
The Israeli Navy prepares to confront Iranian ships heading for Gaza, and says that it will act under the assumption that there are groups of provocateurs aboard any future ships trying to break the Israeli blockade. (Jerusalem Post)
American police in Seattle say they will "review training procedured" following the surfacing of a video which attrated international attention. The video shows a white officer from the Seattle department punching a black teenaged girl in the face when she tried intervene while the officer was confronting another girl about crossing the road at a legally forbidden area. Seattle police deny any wrongdoing. (CNN)(BBC)(IOL)[permanent dead link](Sky News)
BP begins collecting crude oil from a second containment system that the company hopes will help stem the thousands of barrels escaping from their damaged well, an amount that scientists said could be as high as 60,000 barrels a day. (The New York Times)
After a heated debate the Parliament of Lebanon proposes to offer basic rights to hundreds of thousands of refugees it has accepted from Palestine during recent decades. (Aljazeera)(The Daily Star)
Israel Defense Forces soldiers stop three armed men entering Israel from Egypt, 40 kilometers north of the Israeli city of Eilat. One of them is killed, and the other two flee, leaving behind an explosive device. (The Jerusalem Post)
Hundreds of HarediJews rioting in Jaffa clash with the Israel Police and Israel Border Police over the alleged desecration of Jewish graves. Five policemen are injured. Ten rioters are injured, and fifteen are arrested. (Haaretz)
More than £200 million in health funding to the Zambian government is suspended by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, though some aid is given to non-government groups and the fund's director of communications says life-saving treatments remain unaffected. (BBC)
The National Army of Colombia says an unknown number of informants who aided the rescue of three police officers and a soldier from FARC on Sunday will receive a $1.2 million reward between them. (BBC)
Researchers from four Italian universities identify human remains discovered in a church in Tuscany as "almost certainly" being those of Renaissance artist Caravaggio. (BBC)
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak warns Lebanon of the responsibility it holds if Israel has to involve itself in a "violent and dangerous confrontation" with a Gaza-bound international aid flotilla said to include dozens of Lebanese and several Europeans. (AFP)
Rwanda releases from custody an American lawyer for health reasons. The lawyer is charged with genocide denial and threatening state security, the first outsider tried under the country's 2003 anti-genocide legislation. (Reuters Africa)
Hundreds of surveillance cameras, alleged to be part of a counter-terrorism operation in highly Muslim areas, are put into temporary disuse in parts of Birmingham, England, after protest by the local population. (The Guardian)(BBC)
Hope for the dozens of Colombian coal miners trapped underground yesterday begins to fade. At least 50 miners are estimated to still be trapped 2 kilometers underground, all of whom are thought to be dead. Rescue workers have so far recovered 18 bodies, and have advanced 700 meters underground. (BBC)(The Washington Post)
Interim Kyrgyzstan leader Roza Otunbayeva visits Osh and says the death toll from her country's worst ethnic clashes in two decades could be 2,000. (Aljazeera)
Two former military chiefs in The Gambia are charged over an alleged plot to remove PresidentYahya Jammeh from office in 2006; critics say the government is manipulating coup allegations for its own gain. (BBC)
Burmese Democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi turns 65, as international and domestic pressure for her release from house arrest intensify. Guards surrounding her home allow her to receive a birthday cake and a bouquet of flowers from political supporters. (Yahoo! News)
A drone attack on a militant hideout in North Waziristan in Pakistan, killed at least 13 people and injured six others. (CNN)
5 policemen are killed and 14 others injured in four separate attacks against the police forces in Pakistan. (Xinhua)
Four suspected al-Qaida gunmen blast their way into the intelligence headquarters. The attack on the heavily protected security complex kills 18 in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen. (China Daily)(Washington Post)
Roadside bomb blast kills 4, wounds 12 in bus carrying soldiers in Istanbul. (AA)
8 Turkish troops are killed in an attack by Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey. In response, Kurdish positions are targeted by Turkish airstrikes in Northern Iraq. Twelve Kurdish rebels are killed. (BBC)(IOL)
Israel says it will move to loosen its land blockade against the Gaza Strip, while indicating the continuation of its naval blockade against the region. (Xinhua)
At least one person is killed and tens of others are wounded during clashes between Indian paramilitary authorities and demonstrators in Kashmir. The demonstrators were protesting against a 25-year-old who is said to have been beaten to death by soldiers during a 12 June demonstration. (Aljazeera)
Mara gang members in El Salvador attack a bus on the outskirts of San Salvador, shooting at it before dousing it with gasoline and lighting it on fire, killing 14 and injuring 16. Gang members open fire on another bus shortly afterward, killing another 2 people. (Yahoo! News)(Aljazeera)
Iraq's electricity minister Karim Waheed offers his resignation on live television as "Iraqis are not capable of being patient in their suffering". Two people are shot dead by armed forces while protesting over lack of electricity generation blamed by Waheed on lack of funding. (BBC)
Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly, cuts 15% of Belarus' gas supplies over alleged debt, and threatens to gradually cut up to 85% of Belarus' gas supplies if the debt remains unpaid. (Aljazeera)(BBC)
8 people die and 10 people are wounded in a suicide attack in the northern city of Shirqat of Iraq. (TRT)
The Washington Post reports that Gizab villagers in Afghanistan overturned their local Taliban movement during April, with some members putting down their weapons and being welcomed back into their local community. The United States did not hear of this before now as it happened in a remote part of the country ignored by the military. (The Washington Post)
The northernmost radiation detection station of the South Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety claims to have detected an eightfold increase in the radioactive substance xenon. (AP)(Chosun Ilbo)
The Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy Magazine releases its 2010 index of so-called "failed states", ranking 177 countries by what it sees as those most at risk of failure; Foreign Policy claims state failure "is a chronic condition". (Aljazeera)
Six people are arrested in South Africa over the shooting of Rwandan dissident Lt Gen Nyamwasa. (BBC)
War crimes charges are formally requested against 12 Belgian government officials and military officers in connection with the assassination of Congo's first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, as historians agree on a high-level Belgian conspiracy, with Western-backed dictator Mobutu Sese Seko succeeding Lumumba until he was overthrown in 1997. (AP)(AFP)(Reuters)(Taiwan News)
Christopher Coke walks into a police station on the outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica and is detained, following search efforts which killed more than 70 people last month. The United States accuses him of being the Shower Posse leader, which it alleges operates an international drugs and guns network. (BBC)
Slovenia is approved as a new member of the organization in the opening session of the summit. (People's Daily)
The 12 other European nations meeting at the summit issue a joint statement saying they "deplore the loss of life and injuries during the incident in international waters" during the Gaza flotilla raid and "call "an impartial, independent and internationally credible investigation on this matter". (Today's Zaman)(The Jerusalem Post)(Haaretz)(The Straits Times)
GeneralStanley A. McChrystal, America's top military commander in Afghanistan, submits his resignation after being summoned home by an "angry" Barack Obama due to his expression of critical opinions about senior American politicians and diplomats in a Rolling Stone magazine profile. Afghan President Hamid Karzai supports McChrystal, while the Taliban say the incident is "another sign of the start of the political defeat" for America's Afghan policies. (BBC)(Dawn)(Aljazeera)(The National)
Kenya permits prisoners to vote in a referendum on a new constitution in a landmark court ruling. (BBC)(Daily Nation)(KBC)
Strikes in China which began on 21st of June have shut down Toyota and Honda plants there. "The BBC's China editor Shirong Chen says the government has tolerated strikes at foreign-owned plants, which are obliged to respect workers' rights, but maintains strict control at Chinese-owned factories for fear of widespread social unrest." (BBC)
Hours after the earthquake struck Central Canada, severe thunderstorms rolled through Central Ontario, Canada, which has spawned at least 2 tornadoes in cottage country, including one confirmed F-2 tornado touch down in Midland, Ontario, north of Toronto, The most significant damage was reported at Smith's Camp, a trailer park at the south end of the town, where several mobile homes were completely destroyed. (CTV)
One person dies and another two are injured when a shell left over from the Vietnam War explodes in the central province of Quang Ngai. (Thanhnien News)
Five American men are jailed for 10 years in Pakistan after being arrested in possession of maps of sensitive locations. The men deny they have links to militants and say they are charity workers. The verdict is announced inside a prison in the presence of American diplomats. (BBC)(Xinhua)(Aljazeera)(The Guardian)
Burundi's defence minister Germain Niyoyankana says he hopes opposition leader Agathon Rwasa has not gone into hiding as this is banned. Rwasa, an ex-rebel chief, signed a peace deal in 2009. A spokesman says he has only gone on holiday for 15 days. (BBC)
Bridgeport, Connecticut in the United States is put under a state of emergency when hurricane-force winds from a strong storm went through, causing injuries and severe damage including the collapse of a multi-story building. (CNN)(CTPost)
Millions of protesters take to the streets in Rome, Naples, Milan and other Italian cities to protest their government's austerity measures which cut funds and affects public sector salaries and to test Silvio Berlusconi. (Aljazeera)
Christopher Coke, sent to United States territory by Jamaica, pleads not guilty to United States charges of drug smuggling at a federal court in New York and, in his first public comments since August, says he took the decision to be extradited "in the best interest of my family, the community of western Kingston and in particular the people of Tivoli Gardens and above all Jamaica". (Aljazeera)
Evangelical preacher Merrick "Al" Miller is charged with "harbouring a fugitive" and "perverting the course of justice", though he says Coke was on the verge of turning himself into authorities. (Jamaica Gleaner)
Security forces in Yemen clash with suspected Al-Qaeda members in Aden during investigations into a bombing of a government compound last week. (Al Jazeera)
Three Indonesian celebrities - pop star Nazril "Ariel" Irham, TV presenter Luna Maya and soapstar Cut Tari - are allegedly involved in a celebrity sex tape; Nazril "Ariel" Irham is charged, prompting anger and calls for punishment from some conservative groups in the country. (BBC)
Gunmen raided a jewelry shop Saturday morning in western Iraq, killing four people before fleeing with a large amount of gold in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad. (Arab News)
17 people are killed and 25 others injured when an overcrowded bus collided head-on with a speeding truck near Chenaki More, abount 30 km from Patna, India. (Thaindian)
A Toronto veterinarian, who has no involvement in activism, alleges "overreach of police power" after being awoken at night by police in his bedroom at gunpoint; they did not produce a search warrant, questioned his wife and disturbed their baby son before dragging him downstairs in handcuffs onto his own front lawn. He was later released and filed a complaint. (CBC)(National Post)
Israel allegedly confiscates seven oxygen machines en route to hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza as they "came under the category of possible use for non-medical purposes". The Palestinian Ministry of Health asks for the Norwegian Development Agency that donated them to assist in calling for their return. (Haaretz)
Several thousand Egyptians, joined by opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, protest systematic use of torture by authorities in the largest demonstration yet resulting from the alleged fatal beating to death of Khaled Said by police. (Arab News)
Two Palestinians are killed in an Israeli strike on two underground tunnels from the Gaza Strip to Israel. The IDF claims the attack was a response to Thursday's firing of a dozen mortar rounds towards Israel. (Arab News)(The Washington Post)
About 5,000 people attend a rally in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Motzkin in support of the captured soldier on the second day of cross-country march (Ynet)
Kyrgyzstan approves a new constitution with 90.6 percent of voters backing a constitution that would pave the way for a parliamentary election in October, following the violence of the recent uprising and riots. (The New York Times)
The Red Crescent delays an aid shipment bound for Gaza after being told that Egypt would prevent it from using the internationally neutral Suez Canal. (BBC)
Turkey says it will return an ambassador to Israel if the Israeli government formally apologizes for the killing of nine Turkish citizens during the Gaza flotilla raid, compensates their families and when an independent commission is established into the matter. (The New York Times)
United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, Richard A. Falk, issues a statement calling Israel's plan to demolish 20 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem illegal and states the forceful transfer of four Palestinians in another incident could be a "war crime". (Reuters)(The Vancouver Sun)
Rescuers in Ghana's Central Region end an operation to search for survivors from a gold mine collapse in which 70 people were thought to be dead. (My Joy Online)(BBC)
China states it can have Tibet "forever" but indicates a heavy security presence will be necessary to maintain public control. (Reuters)
Google ends a redirect to its Hong Kong site in China and provides a new method of reaching unfiltered results after the Chinese government threatened to end its Internet Content Provider license. (BBC)(The New York Times)(AFP)
One body is recovered after 107 people were buried by a landslide triggered by flooding in the southwestern province of Guizhou. (Xinhua)
A report by Human Rights Watch calls on Britain, France and Germany to stop using intelligence obtained through illegal torture in third-party countries, saying that it contradicts the European Union's anti-torture guidelines and is self-defeating in the "fight against terrorism". (Aljazeera)
Protests are held all across India and occupied Kashmir amid curfew restrictions for the past ten days. Ten adolescents are killed by the forces. (G.K)(Kashmir)
Two people are killed overnight in Burundi and two others wounded in violence that follows a controversial presidential election in which incumbent Pierre Nkurunziza was the only candidate. (Daily Nation)
Rescuers have recovered eight bodies from the ruins of a southwest China village, two days after a devastating rain-triggered landslide destroyed 37 houses and buried 99 villagers under mud. 91 residents of Dazhai Village, Guanling County, Guizhou Province, remained missing. (Xinhua)
13 people are killed during attacks in Iraq: 4 people die in the town of Beiji. (TRT)
