Portal:Current events/2014 June 28
Armed conflict and attacks
- War in North-West Pakistan
- At least 19 militants have been killed in a North Waziristan. (CNN)
- At least 19 militants have been killed in a
- 2014 Northern Iraq offensive
- The Iraqi Army expels militants from the centre of the city of Tikrit amongst heavy fighting. (New York Times)
- Islamist rebels including members of the
- The
- Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
- A blast in a brothel in the northeastern city of Bauchi kills at least 11 people and injures 28. (Reuters via Daily Times)
- Post-coup unrest in Egypt
- A homemade bomb placed in a government construction site in 6th of October City exploded, killing a girl and wounding her mother. (The Times of Israel)
- Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. (Jerusalem Post)
- A homemade bomb placed in a government construction site in
Arts and culture
- The
Disasters and accidents
- At least five people have been killed in an explosion at the world's largest Indian state of Gujarat.(IANS via Biharprabha)
- A dilapidated building collapses in the Indian capital New Delhi with eleven people killed and one injured. (AP via CTV)
- A building under construction in the Indian city of Chennai collapses, with at least one death and dozens trapped. (AP via WOKO TV)
International relations
- 2014 Wang-Zhang Meeting:
- ghost money at the negotiator's motorcade while shouting slogans such as "Taiwan, China, one country on each side". (Wall Street Journal)
Law and crime
- Washington D.C. court to one charge of conspiracy in relation to the 2012 Benghazi attack in which four Americans were killed. (Washington Post)
- Two British thirteen-year-olds are arrested for desecrating graves in a Jewish cemetery in Manchester, England, causing over £100,000 in damage. Nazi slogans and swastikas were drawn on some gravestones, and about forty were toppled over. (Jerusalem Post)