Portal:Current events/2009 June 12
June 12, 2009 (Friday)
- Iran goes to the polls for its presidential election. (AFP via Yahoo) (BBC)
- The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Detroit Red Wings in game seven to win the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals. (AP via WSLS)
- The head of the fourth largest coalition in the Iraqi parliament, Harith al-Obeidi, is assassinated in west Baghdad. (BBC)
- U.S. full power television stations complete their switch from analog to digital television. (The Washington Times)
- The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to impose further sanctions on North Korea, following recent nuclear and missile tests. (UN) (BBC)
- Prominent Pakistani anti-Taliban cleric Sarfraz Naeemi is killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack at his Islamic religious school in Lahore. (Al Jazeera)
- The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, is asked to explain how four Chinese detainees from Guantánamo Bay were released to Bermuda without the knowledge of Whitehall. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- The world's first City of Film is announced by UNESCO, with Bradford beating competition from Los Angeles, Cannes and Venice. (The Guardian)
- Mombasa's courts are overwhelmed with Somali pirate trials; some cases could be transferred to Nairobi. (The Times)
- The trial of National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi is adjourned until June 26. (AP) (BBC)
- India is to withdraw troops from Kashmir's towns and cities for the first time in 20 years. (The Times) (UPI)
- Two Japanese citizens are detained in Italy after allegedly attempting to take $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds over the border into Switzerland starting the Chiasso financial smuggling case. (Bloomberg)