From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
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- 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis:
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- Politics of Japan:
- François Bazaramba is sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in Porvoo, Finland's first genocide trial. (Aljazeera) (BBC) (news24.com) (Reuters)
- Israeli police fatally shoot a Palestinian driver who was attempting to run them down; the two policeman and three civilians are injured in the incident. (Jerusalem Post) (The New York Times)
- 40 people are killed and at least four others are wounded in an attack by at least 30 gunmen in Chihuahua, Mexico. (Xinhua) (The AP) (BBC) (Aljazeera) (Toronto Sun)
- At least 20 people die during flash floods of the Little Missouri River through a campground in the Ouachita Mountains near Caddo Gap, Arkansas, west of Little Rock, Arkansas in the United States. (China Daily) (Reuters)
- At least 11 civilians and two US soldiers are killed in southern Afghanistan: 9 of the civilian deaths are in a roadside bomb on a minibus in Kandahar. (Aljazeera)
- Pope Benedict XVI begs for forgiveness from God and from those who have been abused as children by priests. (The Daily Telegraph) (The New York Times) (RTÉ) (Aljazeera)
- A small plane crashes into Round Valley High School in Eagar, Arizona with at least two casualties. (Fox TV Phoenix)
- Researchers use X-ray techniques to discover that Rose of Viterbo died from thrombus in her heart, not tuberculosis as originally thought. (BBC) (The Star) (Fox News)
- New Zealand has a parliamentary expenses scandal, with one MP claiming for pornography. (BBC) (The Scotsman)
- Two motorcyclists, from Austria and New Zealand, are killed in the same Isle of Man TT race. (BBC)
- King George Tupou V proposes the use of nuclear energy in Tonga. (Canadian Business)
- An Israeli parliamentary lobby group submits a bill, supported by 25 politicians, proposing that boycotts of Israel be outlawed. (The Independent)
- Taipei pulls its films from the Shanghai International Film Festival over fears that China would claim them. (AP) (Asiaone)
- Jane Fonda is awarded the Great Medal of Paris by mayor Bertrand Delanoë for her contribution to the city's art and culture during the Paris Cinema Festival. (BBC) (AFP) (NPR) (The Canadian Press)
- 2010 FIFA World Cup:
- NCAA (U.S. college) conference realignment:
- Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile track the motion of gas giant Beta Pictoris b, the first time an extra-solar planet is tracked in orbit around a young star. (BBC)
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