Portal:Current events/2019 June 27

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • 2019 Tunis bombings
  • Twin blasts from suicide bombers, kill one police officer and wound nine others in Tunis. [https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/africa/tunis-explosion-intl/index.html (CNN)]
  • Yemeni Civil War, Saudi-led intervention in Yemen
  • Arab Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki says that his forces intercept and down a drone in Yemeni airspace after its launch toward Saudi Arabia by Houthis north of Sanaʽa. [https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2019/06/27/Arab-Coalition-intercepts-Houthi-drone-in-Yemeni-airspace-targeting-Saudi-Arabia.html (Al Arabiya)]

;Disasters and accidents

;Politics and elections

;Science and technology

  • List of fast radio bursts
  • Scientists announce, through the Science journal, that they discover the source of a fast radio burst for the first time. FRB 180924, a non-repeating FRB which was detected in September 2018 using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, originates from a large galaxy known as DES J214425.25−405400.81 located 3.6 billion light-years from Earth. [https://www.newsweek.com/frb-mystery-radio-signal-deep-space-1446252 (Newsweek)] [https://www.9news.com.au/national/csiro-scientists-radio-waves-bursts-located-galaxy-billions-light-years-science-technology-space-news-australia/bfa8dccb-7094-4943-8bad-65f621bfdc4c (9news)]
  • Dragonfly (spacecraft)
  • NASA awards $1 billion to the Dragonfly mission, which will use a dual-quadcopter drone to explore Titan for signs of life. [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02027-3 (Nature)] [https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/nasa-will-fly-billion-dollar-quadcopter-titan-saturn-s-methane-rich-moon (Science)] [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/science/nasa-titan-dragonfly-caesar.html (The New York Times)] [https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/titan-saturn-nasa-dragonfly/592882/ (The Atlantic)]

;Sports

  • 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
  • Ellen White becomes England's all-time leading FIFA Women's World Cup Final goalscorer with the team's second goal against Norway in the 2019 Women's World Cup quarterfinal win. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-cup/2019/06/27/norway-vs-england-womens-world-cup-2019-quarter-final-live-score/ (The Telegraph)]

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