Portal:Current events/2010 June 27
June 27, 2010 (Sunday)
- The first President of an independent Lithuania, Algirdas Brazauskas, dies in Vilnius. (Tehran Times)
- Guinea holds the first democratic election in the nation's history. (Aljazeera) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- A constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan is criticized for fears the country would destabilize. (Aljazeera) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- A road accident in Bolivia kills at least 25, injures 44, between Cochabama and PotosÃ. (China Daily)
- At least 11 people die while watching a 2010 FIFA World Cup match in Matam, Senegal. (BBC)
- Italy awaits the outcome of a trial which could imprison Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi's senior adviser, Marcello Dell'Utri, for 11 years. (The Independent)
- A coal mine explosion kills 5 in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (China Dialy)
- Two Canadian medics are killed in Afghanistan, 20 kilometres west of Kandahar City in Panjwaii District. (Vancouver Sun)
- Fighter jets pounded Taliban hideouts in the upper Orakzai Agency of Pakistan on Saturday, killing 14 Taliban, and injuring eight others. (Dialy Times PK)
- Six NATO-led service members are killed Saturday in bombing attacks in Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said. (CNN)
- In the Netherlands a helicopter carrying 5 people crashes and 4 people are dead.French language article