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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • A bomb explodes in a marketplace in Yola, Nigeria, killing 31 and injuring dozens of others. [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/107487d354534eef97878c3f8b063a70/official-31-killed-38-injured-bomb-northeast-nigeria (AP)], [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/05/world/nigeria-explosion/index.html?eref=edition (CNN)]
  • Two people are killed and more than a hundred injured as bombs explode at rallies held by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party two days ahead of the general election in Diyarbakir. [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/92dfb437e07a4007a513ac237caab987/reports-6-injured-explosion-kurdish-rally-turkey (AP)]

;Business and economy

  • Nestlé temporarily removes its Maggi noodles product from the shelves in India following a health scare. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150608054243/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/food/nestle-withdraws-maggi-noodles-in-india-after-food-scare/articleshow/47548821.cms (Economic Times)]

;Disasters and accidents

  • Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
  • The death toll from the sinking of the ship on the Yangtze River rises to 82 with officials giving up hope of finding more survivors. Only 15 out of over 450 people on the boat were rescued. [http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/06/05/capsized-ship-death-toll-reaches-82.html (Sky News Australia)]
  • Two bodies have been removed from Borneo's Mount Kinabalu following the 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Malaysia's Sabah province Friday morning. Previously-stranded climbers, reported at 137, have descended to the Laban Rata resthouse. [http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/06/05/Sabah-tremors-Mt-Kinabalu/ (The Star)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/05/asia/malaysia-kinabalu-quake/index.html?sr=twcnnbrk06515malaysiakinabaluquake242aStoryLink (CNN)] [http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/sabah-quake-stranded-climbers-make-way-down-laban-rata-20150606 (Asia Straits Times)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150607010027/http://www.therakyatpost.com/news/2015/06/06/stranded-climbers-descending-mount-kinabalu/ (The Rakyat Post)]
  • 2015 Accra explosion
  • The death toll from an explosion at a gasoline station on Wednesday in the Ghanaian capital Accra rises to over 200. [http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/over-200-killed-in-ghana-gas-station-explosion_1607811.html (Zee News)]

;Health

;International relations

;Law and crime

  • Eight out of the ten allegedly involved in shooting Pakistani schoolgirl and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai have been secretly set free. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33018334 (BBC)]
  • Prosecutors in the state of Minnesota file criminal charges against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for allegedly mishandling sexual abuse allegations by a priest. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/us/catholic-archdiocese-in-minnesota-charged-over-sex-abuse-by-priest.html (New York Times)]

;Politics and elections

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