Portal:Current events/2014 June 30
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Post-coup unrest in Egypt
- A police officer is killed and several others injured in a small explosion near the presidential palace in Cairo. A second officer is killed while defusing another bomb at the same site. (Reuters) (The Voice of Russia)
- South Thailand insurgency
- A group of gunmen open fire at a Panare district in Pattani province in Thailand, resulting in at least one death. (AP via Myrtle Beach Online)[permanent dead link]
- A group of gunmen open fire at a
- 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
- A cameraman from Russia's Channel One dies after being shot in Donetsk. (RT)
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- At least 11 rockets are fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip causing light damage to a house. (Jerusalem Post)
- War in North-West Pakistan
- The North Waziristan. (AP via Time)
- The
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- The bodies of three kidnapped they were murdered shortly after being kidnapped, and is searching for two Hamas kidnappers and accomplices.(ABC News America) (Jerusalem Post)
- The bodies of three kidnapped
- Mexican Drug War
- Mexican Army soldiers kill 22 criminals in a shootout at a warehouse in the town of Tlatlaya in central Mexico. (AP)
Arts and culture
- Yosemite National Park commemorates the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln signing into law the Yosemite Grant Act, establishing Yosemite as a federally-protected area. (KGO)[permanent dead link]
Law and crime
- The People's Republic of China jails 113 people in Xinjiang autonomous region for terrorism and other offences. (AP)
- American tourists, Jeffrey Fowle and Michael Miller, for crimes against the state. (Reuters)
- Philippines Senator Jinggoy Estrada is arrested for alleged corruption. (AP via BND)
- Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted in London, England, of 12 counts of indecent assault against young girls between 1968 and 1986. The 84-year-old is to be sentenced on Friday 4 July. (ABC News Australia)