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Portal:Current events/2011 June 22

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;Armed conflict and attacks

  • 2011 Bahraini uprising: The Bahraini government sentences 10 pro-democracy activists to life in prison for their role in the uprising. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/22/bahraini-activists-jailed-life (The Guardian)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/06/20116228219100399.html (Al Jazeera)] [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13872206 (BBC)]
  • 2011 Libyan civil war:
  • Denmark officially recognizes the National Transitional Council of Libya as the "sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people" in the current transition period. [http://www.b.dk/politiko/danmark-anerkender-libyens-oproerere (Berlingske)]
  • China receives the leader of the opposition National Transitional Council of Libya. [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-06/22/c_13944106.htm (Xinhua)]
  • Philippine Army soldiers capture five suspected members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf in a raid on Basilan Island. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9706654 (AP via The Guardian)]
  • A photographer is shot during violence in east Belfast in Northern Ireland. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13873307 (BBC)]
  • War in Afghanistan (2001–2021):
  • The President of the United States Barack Obama announces that 33,000 US troops will be withdrawn from the War in Afghanistan by the northern summer of 2012. [http://www.smh.com.au/world/obama-announces-afghan-drawdown-20110623-1gg8h.html (Sydney Morning Herald)] [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/world/asia/23prexy.html (The New York Times)] [http://www.france24.com/en/20110622-obama-us-troop-drawdown-afghanistan (AFP via France 24)] [http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/22/afghanistan.troops.drawdown/index.html (CNN)]

;Arts and culture

;Business and economics

;Disasters

;International relations

  • Indonesia bans its domestic servants from working in Saudi Arabia following the execution of a maid who was beheaded with a sword. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13878418 (BBC)]
  • South Korea announces that it will build a new resettlement centre for refugees from North Korea. [http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1136506/1/.html (AFP via Channel News Asia)]
  • President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir threatens to cut off pipelines carrying Southern Sudanese petroleum (oil) on July 1 unless a deal is done. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13870929 (BBC)]

;Law and crime

  • Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei is freed on bail. Under the terms of his bail agreement, he is not permitted to disclose the reason for his arrest and detention. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13878859 (BBC)] [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/06/2011622155318767503.html (Al Jazeera)] [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-06/22/content_12755816.htm (China Daily)]
  • Ireland is sued for compensation over a measles vaccination that caused serious brain injury. [http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0622/measles.html (RTÉ)]
  • Journalist Anatoly Bitkov, the chief editor of the Kolyma Plus TV channel, is found dead in his apartment in the town of Magadan in the Russian Far East. [http://en.rian.ru/society/20110622/164757235.html (RIA Novosti)]
  • In the United Kingdom, the first coordinated, nationwide Police National Database is launched, making information easier to share between forces [http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=16679 (PublicService)] [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8580657/Quarter-of-UK-population-will-be-on-new-police-database.html (The Daily Telegraph)]
  • Fugitive alleged Boston crime boss James J. Bulger is arrested in the US city of Santa Monica, California. [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/06/whitey-bulger-arrest-santa-monica.html (Los Angeles Times)]

;Politics

  • 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. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13863913 (BBC)]
  • Some 450 people are arrested in Belarus after protests against the Government's economic policies. [http://en.rian.ru/world/20110623/164779418.html (RIA Novosti)]
  • The Japanese Diet votes to extend its session until August 31 so that it can consider key legislation. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110622222456/http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/22_25.html (NHK World)]

;Sports

  • Sports fans will find out in the next few days if they have been successful in obtaining tickets for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9706679 (Press Association via The Guardian)]
  • Australian water polo player James Stanton is banned for two years from competition for using the banned substance Clenbuterol. [http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/waterpolo/news/story?id=6689981 (ESPN)]

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