Portal:Current events/2010 September 6
September 6, 2010 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and incidents
- At least seventeen people are killed and forty others injured after a suicide bomber attacks a Pakistan police station in the town of Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. (Al Arabiya)
- The number of deaths for members of the International Security Assistance Force in the War in Afghanistan reaches 500 for the first 9 months of 2010 as opposed to 521 for all of 2009. (Reuters)
- Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spain's Interior Minister, dismisses ETA's ceasefire offer as insufficient for a peace process. (CNN)
Disasters
- New Zealand Army soldiers begin providing security at the centre of Christchurch following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake as a state of emergency is extended until Wednesday. (AP via Yahoo! News) (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- Over fifty-thousand Australians have been placed on evacuation alert in the Australian state of Victoria in eleven towns since Saturday due to the 2010 Victorian floods. (AFP via The West Australian)
- Emergency teams in Guatemala resume rescue efforts after mudslides bury dozens of people. (BBC)
- 2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Hermine slams into northern Mexico near the border with Texas. (Reuters via Swiss Info)
- A wind-driven wildfire in the United States state of Colorado leads to the evacuation of 1,000 houses. (AP via Yahoo! News)
International relations
- North Korea announces it will release seven detained Chinese and South Korean fishermen. (Yonhap) (Xinhua) (Al Jazeera)
- Bernard Kouchner, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Vatican offer to assist Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Iran. (BBC)
- Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister and leader of the Yisrael Beitenu Party says that it will block any proposal to extend a freeze on settlements on the West Bank. (Voice of America)
Law and crime
- China investigates the qualifications of all its commercial pilots after 200 of them had falsified their résumés. (BBC) (AFP) (China Daily)
- Two Greenpeace activists are given suspended sentences in Japan for stealing whale meat. (The Japan Times) (Reuters) (AP)
- Bahrain charges 23 Shia Muslim activists with terrorism and attempting to overthrow the government. (Al Jazeera) (Bloomberg) (Bahrain News Agency)
Politics and elections
- Vlad Filat, the Prime Minister of Moldova, concedes defeat on a referendum proposal for direct election of the President of Moldova. (BBC)
- France prepares for a general strike over reform to pensions with two million people expected to participate. (The Telegraph)
- Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair cancels a London book signing for his memoir, A Journey, because of protests by the British National Party and anti-Iraq War demonstrators. (The Guardian)
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