Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/June

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 * The Philippine general election results in the Liberal Party gaining a plurality of seats in the Senate, while Lakas Kampi CMD wins the majority of seats in the House of Representatives.
 * Yukio Hatoyama resigns as prime minister of Japan, the fourth person to leave the office in as many years.
 * At least five people are confirmed dead in a shooting spree in Cumbria, England.
 * The Soviet and Russian poet and writer Andrey Voznesensky dies at home at the age of 77.
 * A large fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 87 people.
 * Naoto Kan is designated Prime Minister of Japan by the Diet, following the resignation of Yukio Hatoyama.
 * Nigerian health authorities announce that a series of lead poisonings in Zamfara State have killed at least 163 people since March.
 * SpaceX successfully launches the first Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a test version of the Dragon spacecraft.
 * American basketball coach John Wooden dies at the age of 99.
 * Francesca Schiavone wins 2010 French Open in women's singles, becoming the first Italian to win the tournament.
 * Dozens of people in India, Oman and Pakistan are killed by Cyclone Phet, the second strongest Arabian Sea cyclone ever recorded.
 * An Indian court convicts seven men of criminal negligence in relation to their roles in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.
 * In a session of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, Choe Yong-rim is appointed Premier, replacing Kim Yong-il; Chang Sung-taek is appointed Vice Chairman of the National Defence Commission.
 * Noynoy Aquino becomes president-elect of the Philippines, having been confirmed as the winner of the presidential election.
 * The United Nations Security Council imposes a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
 * In ice hockey, the Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup by defeating the Philadelphia Flyers in six games in the 2010 Finals.
 * South Korea's Naro-1 rocket, carrying the STSAT-2B satellite, explodes in midair in its second launch failure in a month.
 * The Dutch VVD wins a plurality of seats in the country's general election.
 * 2010 FIFA World Cup begins in South Africa.
 * The world's oldest leather shoe, made approximately 5,500 years ago, is discovered in Armenia.
 * A suicide bomb attack at a wedding in Arghandab District, Afghanistan, kills 40 people and wounds 77 others.
 * At least 39 people are killed in a shooting in Chihuahua, northern Mexico.
 * Sever flooding in Arkansas, United States, kills at least 16 people.
 * Ethnic clashes in Osh, Kyrgyzstan kill more than 50 people.
 * Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-SD party (Fico pictured) wins a plurality in the Slovakian general election but his coalition loses its majority in the National Council.
 * The Japanese space agency probe Hayabusa returns to Earth having completed a seven year mission to sample the asteroid Itokawa.
 * In Belgium, the separatist New Flemish Alliance gains a plurality in the parliamentary election, with the francophone Socialist Party coming in a close second.
 * The Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday finds the British Army guilty of shooting 27 civilians who were later discovered to be innocent.
 * Soyuz TMA-19, carrying three members of the Expedition 24 crew, launches on the one-hundredth flight to the International Space Station.
 * Heavy rainfall in Var kills at least 25 people during the region's worst floods since 1827.
 * In basketball, the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Boston Celtics in seven games to win the NBA Championship.
 * Nobel-laureate José Saramago of Portugal dies at the age 87.
 * The wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling takes place in Stockholm.
 * Widespread flooding in southern China kills at least 132 people, leaving at least 80 missing and thousands displaced.
 * A parliamentary election in Nauru results in a hung parliament.
 * In golf, Graeme McDowell, of Northern Ireland, wins the US Open, the first European to win the tournament since 1970.
 * Juan Manuel Santos from the Party of the U is elected President of Colombia.
 * Mari Kiviniemi of Centre Party is elected as the new Prime Minister of Finland.
 * At least 60 people are killed after a train derails in the Republic of the Congo.
 * General Stanley A. McChrystal is dismissed as Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan; British Lieutenant General Nick Parker assumes temporary command.
 * Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia after defeating incumbent Kevin Rudd in an election for the leadership of the ruling Australian Labor Party.
 * Floods cause the deaths of at least 44 people and the disappearance of hundreds more in northeastern Brazil.
 * Wimbledon: John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 70-68 in the longest match in tennis history.
 * Thirteen people are killed crossing railroad tracks at a station near Barcelona, Spain.
 * The G-20 Summit begins in Toronto.
 * Lithuania's first directly-elected President and former Prime Minister, Algirdas Brazauskas, dies at the age of 77.
 * Robert Byrd (pictured), the United States' longest serving senator, dies at the age of 92.
 * The People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) sign the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, intended to boost trade across the Taiwan Strait.
 * Mexican politician and state gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantú is assassinated in the country's ongoing drugs war.
 * Former Olympic champion Pál Schmitt is elected president of Hungary.
 * Christian Wulff is elected President of Germany.
 * At least 21 people are killed in severe flooding in Romania.