Portal:Current events/2011 June 6

June 6, 2011 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2011 Libyan civil war: Rebels retake the town of Yafran in the west of the country. (New York Times) (al Jazeera)
2011 Syrian uprising:
- At least 120 members of the Syrian security forces are killed in clashes in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, according to state media. (AP via Google News) (BBC) (Syrian Arab News Agency)
- Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah is kidnapped by armed men in Damascus. (The Guardian)
2011 Bahraini protests: Medical staff who treated anti-government demonstrators are charged with attempting to overthrow the monarchy. (Al Jazeera)
Two United States drone missiles kill 14 people in Pakistani Taliban compounds near Wana in South Waziristan. (Dawn). (AAP via Herald Sun)
2011 Yemeni uprising: Armed men affiliated with al-Qaeda kill seven soldiers and injure 12 others near the city of Zinjibar. (Reuters)
Shooting takes place in Kaduqli in Sudan's South Kordofan state, where armed groups allied to South Sudan are based. (Reuters)
2011 Xilinhot incident
- Around 100 people are detained after ethnic unrest in the Inner Mongolia region of China. (Hong Kong Standard)

Business and economy

North Korea is to establish a special economic zone on two islands close to the Chinese border. (Straits Times)
Bloomberg reports Italian company Prada SpA is planning an initial public offering for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. (Bloomberg)
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government changes working hours of its staff in order to conserve energy from the shortages caused by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (AP via Washington Post)
Hacker group Lulz Security claims to have again compromised Sony's online security system and posted the results online. (Reuters)
Apple Inc. launches its new iCloud service at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Disasters

At least 21 people die as two coal mines in the People's Republic of China flood. (AFP via Inquirer)
Test results will confirm whether the German E. Coli outbreak came from vegetable sprouts grown in the Uelzen area. (Sky News)
Residents of three Western United States towns - Springerville, Arizona, Eagar, Arizona and Luna, New Mexico - are warned to prepare for evacuation ahead of the Wallow Fire. one of the biggest in Arizona history. (Arizona Daily Star)
At least seventeen people are dead and another 15 remain missing after a speedboat sinks in Banjarmasin, the capital of the Indonesian province of South Kalimantan. (Jakarta Post)

International relations

A European Union delegation visits North Korea to investigate claims of food shortages. (Yonhap News)
The People's Daily, a Chinese stated-owned newspaper, accuses Internet search engine giant Google of becoming a "political tool" after it claimed that computer hacking aimed at it came from China. (Reuters)
The United Nations Committee Against Torture calls for the Government of Ireland to set up a statutory inquiry into allegations of poor treatment of women committed to the Magdalene Laundries. (Irish Times)

Law and crime

The Supreme Court of India calls on the Indian government to explain why police were sent in to disperse a peaceful anti-corruption demonstration. (Straits Times)
Abu Bakar Bashir, a prominent Indonesian cleric, rejects his terrorism trial as "outside Islamic law." (Al Jazeera)
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be arraigned on sexual assault charges in the US state of New York. (The Telegraph)
The sodomy trial of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is delayed after the presiding judge Mohamad Zabidin Diah dismisses the defence's efforts to have him replaced. (AP via MSNBC) (Bernama)
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation announces that it has arrested 13 members of the Mafia in the city of Philadelphia in relation to an illegal gambling operation. (NBC Philadelphia)

Politics and elections

Sports