Portal:Current events/2013 June 28

Current events of June 28, 2013 (2013-06-28) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks One trainee member of the Philippine National Police is killed and six injured in an ambush in Mountain Province. (ABS-CBN News) One person is killed and four injured in an attack on a provincial party office in the Egyptian city of Zagazig. (Reuters) Thirty-three are killed in an attack in Nigeria's Plateau State. (Xinhua) Two people are killed and seven injured in a bomb attack in Songkhla, Thailand. (The Nation) Three people are killed and seven injured in an attack in Karachi, Pakistan (Gulf News) Fifteen people are killed in attacks targeting Iraqi police and anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen. (The Daily Star) Arts and culture Former President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez wins the Simón Bolívar National Award for Journalism posthumously. (Mail & Guardian Online) Business and economics Gold falls below $1200 per ounce for the first time since 2010. (BBC) The USDA approves a plant to slaughter horses for meat in New Mexico. (Reuters) News Corp. completes a planned split into two companies, creating 21st Century Fox. (LA Times) Law and crime A senior Vatican bank cleric, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, and two others are arrested on suspicion of smuggling €20 million into Italy from Switzerland. (BBC) French businessman Bernard Tapie is placed under investigation for improperly using political influence to benefit his businesses. (Xinhua) A man is arrested in England on charges related to an attack on the John Constable painting The Hay Wain. (AP via Silicon Valley Mercury News) Gay marriage in the state of California is legalized after the stay held on the unconstitutional California Proposition 8 is lifted. Two women who successfully challenged Proposition 8 in the Supreme Court of the United States are married in San Francisco. (NBC News) Sport Former captain of the Pakistan cricket team Salman Butt admits to fixing matches in 2010. (The News International)