June 7, 2012 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- U.S. military drone attacks carried out by the CIA on Pakistan raise serious legal questions, announces United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay at the end of a fact-finding visit to Pakistan. (BBC)
Arts and culture
- Philip Roth wins the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and pays tribute to his "dear friend" Carlos Fuentes who died last month. (The Guardian)
- Archaeologists announce the discovery of the remains of the 16th-century Curtain Theatre, where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed. (BBC)
- Former Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch is found dead from a gunshot wound. (Associated Press) (MSNBC)
- Clarence House confirms that Prince William has qualified as an RAF search and rescue captain, and will now command search and rescue operations in Sea King helicopters. (BBC)
Business and economy
- Credit agency Fitch slashes Spain's rating to BBB. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announces she is switching her personal savings from the U.S. dollar to the Argentine peso. (BBC)
- LinkedIn says that some of its members' passwords have been "compromised" following reports that more than six million passwords were leaked on the Internet. (BBC)
- Last.fm also reports that some of its passwords have been leaked and urges users of its website to change them immediately. (BBC)
Disasters
- A helicopter with foreign nationals on board goes missing in an Amazon region of southern Peru. (BBC) (AFP via France24)[permanent dead link] (Al Jazeera)
- Two apartment buildings collapse following a gas leak in the Italian town of Conversano, resulting in four people being missing. (Reuters)
- At least 16 people die and 32 are injured after a bus falls into a ravine north of the Bolivian capital La Paz. (AP via Google News)
- A small Pilatus PC-12/47 aircraft crashes in a remote rural area of Florida in the Tiger Creek Swamp area near Lake Wales, Florida, southeast of Lakeland, Florida in the central portion of the state. The airplane began to break up at around 26,000 feet in southeastern Polk County, Florida. (MSNBC)
International relations
- CIA director David Petraeus makes an unofficial visit to Bulgaria, meeting the president and prime minister. (New Europe)
- U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta makes an unannounced trip to Kabul and warns that his country is "reaching the limits of our patience here" with regard to Pakistan. (BBC) (AFP via the Daily Nation) (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- An additional 550 settler homes are announced by Israeli construction minister Ariel Attias in addition to the 300 new settler homes ordered yesterday by the land's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- UK government ministers announce their intention to boycott group games involving the England national football team at UEFA Euro 2012 in Ukraine. (BBC) (The Guardian)
Law and crime
- An Israeli court paves the way for the deportation of hundreds of illegal South Sudanese migrants, despite opposition to the move from human rights groups. (Deutsche Welle) (Al Arabiya) (The Times of Israel)
Politics and elections
- A Golden Dawn politician assaults two other politicians on a live television talk show and flees the scene ; at least one copycat incident is reported to have taken place with two MPs being assaulted by the neo-Nazi party's supporters. (The Guardian)
- UK Labour leader Ed Miliband claims that so-called "Englishness" is being overlooked in the debate about Scottish independence, though he rejects calls for an English Parliament. (BBC) (The Guardian)
Sport
- Football coach Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, due to be unveiled as the new Villarreal manager on Friday, is found dead from a heart attack at the age of 54. (Daily Mail)
- Usain Bolt triumphs in the 100m in Oslo in a time of 9.79 seconds. (BBC)