Portal:Current events/2008 June 15
- presidential election since the 2008 invasion of Anjouan which ousted Mohamed Bacar. (AFP via Google News)
- Six members of the Kuratong baleleng Philippines crime gang, as well as a police officer are killed in a shootout with police officers in Manila. (AFP via Google News)
- The insurance company, removes Martin J. Sullivan as its CEO due to losses caused by the subprime mortgage crisis. (Reuters)
- 2008 U.S. Open Golf Championship. (The Washington Times)
- Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr claims that he is developing a new force to fight United States forces in Iraq. (CNN)
- Afghanistan
- The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai warns the Taliban that he will send forces into Pakistan in hot pursuit of militants. (AP via Google News)
- More than 15 Taliban insurgents are killed as Kandahar prison raid. (Reuters)
- The Yusuf Raza Gillani warns that Pakistan will not tolerate incursions over its borders. (BBC News)
- Heavy rain in southern China causes flooding with at least six people dead, four missing and 150,000 people evacuated from Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. (AP via Google News)[permanent dead link]
- 2008 Iwate earthquake including seven people feared buried by a mudslide at a hot springs hotel in mountains outside the town of Kurihara, Miyagi. (BBC News)
- The constitution of Kosovo comes into effect. (BBC News)