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Portal:Current events/2014 June 24

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin formally asks Russia's upper house of parliament to revoke the right that it earlier granted for Russian forces to intervene militarily in Ukraine in defense of Russian-speakers there. [http://www.trust.org/item/20140624100954-ig604 (Reuters)]
  • Nine Ukrainian servicemen are killed when a Ukrainian Ground Forces Mil Mi-8 is downed by separatist forces near Sloviansk, one day after a temporary ceasefire was declared. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140627141822/http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/06/25/nine-dead-as-ukraine-helicopter-downed.html (Sky News Australia)]
  • A car bombing occurs in a Shiite suburb of Lebanon's capital Beirut killing the bomber and injuring five other people. [http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140623/explosion-beirut-suburb (AFP via Global Post)], [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/world/middleeast/car-bomb-explodes-south-of-beirut.html (New York Times)]
  • At least five people have been killed in an attack on the Kenyan coast. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27991517# (BBC News)]
  • An Afghan man who saved the life of a Navy SEAL requests asylum in the United States after the Taliban has declared they will try to kill him. [http://www.vocativ.com/world/afghanistan-world/navy-seals-savior-marked-death-taliban/ (Vocativ.com)]
  • At least one person is killed and two are injured as unidentified gunmen open fire on a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft at Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar, Pakistan. [http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/06/one-killed-2-injured-in-a-gun-attack-at-peshawar-airport-in-pakistan/ (IANS via Biharprabha)]

;Arts and culture

;Business and economy

  • Strikes by French air traffic controllers lead to the cancellation of dozens of flights in Europe. [http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-06-24/flight-disruption-warning-as-french-strikes-begin/ (ITV)]

;Disasters

  • Nine commercial fisherman are killed and three others are missing after two fishing trawlers collide near Pisco in central Peru. [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9-dead-3-missing-after-trawlers-collide-peru (AP)]

;Law and crime

;Politics and elections

  • ({{Interlanguage link multi|Moon Chang-keuk|ko|3=문창극}}) withdraws his name from nomination to be the next Prime Minister of South Korea due to his alleged historic pro-Japanese views. [http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2014/06/24/0200000000AEN20140624003200315.html (Yonhap)]
  • A new coalition government takes office in Finland, the first led by a Swedish-speaking Finn since 1959. [http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/06/24/finland-fick-ny-regering (YLE)] [http://www.finlandtimes.fi/national/2014/06/24/7867/Stubb-elected-new-PM (Finland Times)]

;Sport

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