Former German chancellor, "architect of German reunification" and one of the authors of the European single currency Helmut Kohl is reported to be in a "critical condition" after surgery at a Heidelberg hospital. (Guardian)
The official death toll from the Indian heat wave rises to 2,330 with meteorologists warning that relief from the monsoon season could still be days away. (CNN)
Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
Rescue efforts continue for people on board the ship that sank on the
Yangtze River in China's Hubei province with over 450 people on board. So far, fewer than 12 have been rescued and five bodies recovered. (New York Times), (CNN)
Dias Kadyrbayev, a college friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is sentenced to six years for obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges after Kadyrbayev removed incriminating evidence from Tsarnaev's college dorm room. (CBS Local)
Sepp Blatter announces that he will resign as President of FIFA as a result of the corruption scandals with an emergency congress to be called as soon as possible. (BBC)(RTÉ News)
The Grozny Chechnya office of the Committee Against Torture NGO is attacked by masked men who came out of a crowd of protesters. They broke down the door and trashed the office. National Leader Ramzan Kadyrov speculated the attack could have been carried out by relatives of Dzhambulat Dadayev upset that the NGO which investigates torture did not lead protests of the shooting of Dadayev by law enforcement officers from another region. Moscow Times
War in Donbass
Pro-Russian separatists launch an offensive to take Marinka, Ukraine, 5 kilometers from the separatist capital of Donetsk. At least 19 people have died in fighting. Ukrainian sources claimed at least 10 tanks took part in the battle. (AFP via Yahoo! News), (New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
The search continues for survivors of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing which sank on
Yangtze River with 450 passengers on board. So far, 18 people have been confirmed dead with 14 people rescued. (CCTV via Twitter)
Several rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel and exploded near the cities of Ashdod, Netivot and Ashkelon causing no casualties. The IDF retaliated with airstrikes against empty Hamas training camps in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
Naxalite Insurgents kill at least 20 Indian Army soldiers and injure 12 in an attack on a convoy in the state of Manipur. (BBC)
Arts and culture
Oxford University decides to admit women, making it the last of the University's institutions to do so. (Reuters Trust)
Business and economy
Officials of the ruling Syriza party in Greece say that they cannot accept a last-minute deal proposed by the country's creditors: default deadline looms. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
The death toll from the Monday night sinking of the
Yangtze River rises to 75 with most of the 450 passengers on board still missing. (The Guardian), (NBC News)
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in a 15-hour, 12-doctor operation, perform the world's first partial-skull and scalp transplant, at Houston Methodist Hospital, on 55-year-old Jim Boysten, a software developer from Austin, Texas suffering from a large head wound from cancer treatment; immediately afterward, he was finally able to receive a new kidney and pancreas, which replaced the previous transplants that were failing. (MSN)
2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in South Korea
The number of people with
Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea rises to 35 with over 700 schools suspending classes due to fears of the syndrome. (Xinhua)
noodles product from the shelves in India following a health scare. (Economic Times)
Disasters and accidents
Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
The death toll from the sinking of the ship on the
Yangtze River rises to 82 with officials giving up hope of finding more survivors. Only 15 out of over 450 people on the boat were rescued. (Sky News Australia)
For the second time this week, a rocket fired from Gaza lands in Israel. There were no immediate reports of injuries, or claims of responsibility. (Times of Israel)
Disasters and accidents
Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
The death toll from the sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing rises to 396 with 46 unaccounted for. (CCTV via Twitter)
162 enclaves in the border region between the two nations and allows thousands of people living in the territories to choose their nationality. (Al-Jazeera)
Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a general election with the ruling AKP seeking enough votes to enable them to change the constitution. However, early projections show that they will lose their majority in the new parliament. (BBC), (New York Times)
2015 SEA Games venues. This is as a mark of respect for the eight people who were killed in the earthquake, which consists of six Primary 6 students, one teacher and their adventure guide. (Straits Times)(Today)
Sinking of Dong Fang Zhi Xing
The death toll from last week's sinking on
Yangtze River rises to 434 with eight people missing and 14 survivors. (CNN)
Health
2015 South Korean MERS outbreak
The number of deaths from MERS in South Korea rises to six with 23 new cases reported. (AFP via Straits Times)
HSBC announces plans to cut 8,000 jobs in the United Kingdom, one-sixth of its U.K. workforce, via "natural attrition" as it restructures its banking business. A total of 25,000 jobs could be axed globally. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
Several firefighters are killed after an explosion at a military oil depot near
Two Brazilians reach historic milestones in the team's 2–0 win over South Korea in Montreal. Marta sets a new record with her 15th goal in Women's World Cup play, and the 37-year-old Formiga becomes the oldest player to score in a Women's World Cup. (ESPN)
suicide bomber targets the Karnak temple site in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor. Two militants were shot nearby, four Egyptians were wounded with no tourists hurt in the attack. (ITV News)(BBC)(Fox News)(AP)
The death toll from the MERS outbreak in South Korea rises to nine, with 13 new cases reported. More than 2,200 schools have closed or cancelled classes as a result of the outbreak. (Reuters)
Pope Francis approves the outline of a new system giving power to the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to judge bishops "with regard to crimes of the abuse of office when connected to the abuse of minors." (National Catholic Reporter)
Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front, shoots dead at least 20 Druze villagers in Idlib in what is being described as a "massacre". (The Telegraph)
Residents of northeast Nigeria claim that Boko Haram has killed at least 43 people and burnt down three villages in recent attacks. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Spain gives the late writer Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, a formal burial at a Madrid convent nearly 400 years after his death in 1616. (AP)
Federal Interior Ministry of Pakistan has sealed the offices of the NGO Save the Children in Pakistan and issued order for its foreign staff to leave the country within 15 days on account of the NGO’s anti-Pakistan activities. (Express Tribune).
Cleveland Police Department officer Timothy Loehmann should face murder charges in relation to the shooting of Tamar Rice. (Cleveland.com)
King
Cristina of her titles after she is charged with tax evasion. (AFP via Yahoo!)
Authorities from the Marshal's Service, the FBI, Customs, state and local police, and the Forest Police searching for 6 days in northeastern New York (about 25 miles south of the Canadian border, near
opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in the Texan city of Dallas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police snipers following a car chase and standoff. (AP), (CNN)
Flooding in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, destroys animal enclosures at a zoo resulting in the release of potentially dangerous animals and the death of three zookeepers and six other people. (AP), (USA Today), (Reuters, DPA via WA Today)
2015 Alaska Sockeye wildfire
A wildfire near
Matanuska-Susitna Borough burns over 6,500 acres, numerous structures and closes the George Parks Highway, severing the road link between Anchorage and Fairbanks.(Alaska Dispatch News)
Health
2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan has suspended its order against the NGO Save the Children for closure of its working and allowed the international aid agency to resume its operation in Pakistan. (Express Tribune)(ARY Digital)
The High Court in Pretoria grants an interim order preventing al-Bashir from leaving South Africa, and postpones the application for his arrest to the next day to allow the government more time to prepare. (News24)(News24)
Politics and elections
Thousands of people march in
China backed proposal for the naming of candidates for Chief Executive be done by a nominating committee. (Bloomberg)
At least 23 people are killed and more than 100 injured in suicide attacks on police headquarters and training centers by suspected Boko Haram members in N'Djamena, Chad. (New York Times)
Balochistan conflict
Over 100 Baloch rebels pledge allegiance to the government after abandoning armed struggle. (AFP)
The Vatican announces that the first hearing in the trial of Józef Wesołowski, a former papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic and a Polish former prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, is scheduled for July 11. (ABC News), (NPR)
OneWeb satellite constellation with the project starting in 2018. (The Guardian)
Rupert Murdoch confirms stepping down as the CEO of 21st Century Fox to be succeeded by his son James on July 1, 2015. Rupert will continue as its executive chairman with his eldest son, Lachlan, as a future executive co-chairman. (USA Today)
trans fatty acids (trans fats) must be eliminated within three years (2018) from all foods grown, imported to, or sold within the United States. It is the strictest and most final type of ruling, even more so than a black-box warning or a warning to list ingredients, that can be given from the federal agency, which has ultimate jurisdiction over the safety of all food and drug products, public or private, in the United States. The substances occur in processed meats and other foods, and have been repeatedly implicated in atherosclerotic coronary heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers. (MSN), (Washington Post),(CNN Money), (FDA's statement)
2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome bringing the death toll to 19 with 154 people diagnosed with the disease. (Yonhap)
The American NBC network announces that Lester Holt will continue as the host of the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams returning in an undisclosed role. (The Wrap)
A California model, Lauren Wasser, files a lawsuit against
Kimberly-Clark Corporation for toxic shock syndrome, which resulted in losing her right leg, allegedly caused by the product, Kotex Natural Balance. (Daily Mail)
vigilantes and injures 53 others near the town of Monguno in northeast Nigeria. The vigilantes were assisting the military in the fight against Boko Haram. (AP via News24)
At least 38 people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack on two villages in Niger. (BBC)
Suspected shooter Dylann Roof is arrested at a traffic stop. Roof is suspected of killing nine people including a South Carolinian state senator. He was charged with multiple drug possession in April and reportedly (by CNN) legally bought the gun at a store after passing a background check despite his criminal record. (ABC News)(ITV News)
At the Vatican, Pope Francis's officials in the Roman Curia formally release the text of his most recent encyclical, Laudato si'. The text, which had been quite anticipated by many sides on the climate change debate and been criticized by some for his involvement in the politicized and charged issue, had been previously leaked. (Reuters), via MSN, (CNN), (Vatican)
Muslims begin fasting at the start of the lunar calendar month of Ramadan, 2015.
2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers claims responsibility for an ambush style attack in which one Israeli was killed and another seriously injured. (Times of Israel)
Business and economy
The European Central Bank increased the cap on cash available to Greek banks through emergency liquidity assistance, as those banks continue to experience steady withdrawals. Greek citizens have withdrawn over 3 billion Euros in the last month. (Reuters)
smoking age from 18 to 21, effective January 1, 2016, and will also outlaw sales, purchases, or uses of electronic cigarettes for those under 21. (Reuters)
ISIL militants are killed following a militia attack on the eastern city of Derna. ISIL has had a significant presence in Derna since the end of 2014. (Yahoo)
Palestinian teenager is in police custody after he stabbed a policeman who was administrating Jerusalem's Damascus Gate border in the neck, critically injuring the policeman. The policeman then shot and injured the teenager and collapsed. (YNet)
Politics
Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras makes a new offer for reforms which could signal a late deal in the country's debt talks. (ITV News)
suicide bomber attacks a fish market in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri. The militant Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind the attack. (BBC)
2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
The number of deaths from MERS in South Korea rises to 27 with three new cases reported. The government is taking unprecedented precautions in terms of public sanitation and quarantine.(Yonhap)
Walmart, the largest store in the United States, announces that it will withdraw all merchandise featuring the Confederate flag from sale at its stores and online. (CNN)
The deputy speaker of the Greek parliament, Alexis Mitropoulos, warns that the body may reject concessions the government had made to the country's creditors. (Reuters)
Tsarnev is sent to the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, where 61 other inmates are awaiting their lethal injections. (NBC News)
China's customs officers seize more than 100,000 t (98,000 long tons; 110,000 short tons) of meat, many of which expired, some more than 40 years ago. (China Daily)(NPR)
carbon emissions reduction if the state governor believes compliance would increase electricity bills too much or have an adverse effect on reliability of supply. (AP)
Two hotels in Sousse, Tunisia came under attack from an unknown number of gunmen; at least 37 people have been killed and 36 injured. (Sky News), (BBC), (USA Today)
Tunisia deploys an additional 1000 police in resorts and beaches following the attack on tourists on Friday. (AP)
With the number of British dead expected to exceed 30, the U.K. warns its citizens about traveling to certain parts of Tunisia, including the south and near the Libyan border. (AP), (BBC)
suicide bomber responsible for the attack that killed 27 people was Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a, a citizen of Saudi Arabia. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
In Istanbul, Turkish police forces interrupt the LGBT pride parade, which was refused this year due to the holy month Ramadan, by firing water cannons and rubber pellets. (Reuters UK)
The BBC reports that the European Central Bank will cap lending to Greece's struggling banks, causing the run on the nation's banks to become even worse. Next week a referendum will be held about leaving the Euro currency. (BBC), (BBC), (Irish Times)
Greece announces that it will close
automatic teller machine withdrawals. The Athens Exchange is also closed as financial conditions worsen. (Reuters), (CNBC)
Lars Løkke Rasmussen forms Denmark's first single-party government in 33 years, and Rasmussen himself becomes the first prime minister in 33 years to serve in two non-consecutive terms; Kristian Jensen becomes the sixth foreign minister since 2010. (The Local)(Copenhagen Post)
Sana'a causing 28 casualties. Islamic State has claimed responsibility. (AP), (AFP via France 24)
International relations
The Israeli Navy intercepts and takes control of the lone ship still involved in Freedom Flotilla III and pilots it to Ashdod. The other three ships involved had already turned back after being intercepted. Israel offered all ships to unload their humanitarian aid cargo in Israeli ports and transport it into Gaza for free but the ships refused. (Israel National News)(Times Of Israel)
The
computer hacking incident suspected to be conducted by Chinese hackers. (Breaking News)
NBC drops support of 2016 United States Presidential candidate Donald Trump after Trump gives a campaign speech which includes remarks considered by some to be racist.(The Washington Post)
Science and technology
A robot kills a man, who was a contractor, at a
Baunatal, Germany. Spokesman Heiko Hillwig said the 22-year-old victim was part of a team that was setting up the robot when it grabbed and crushed him against a metal plate. The death was preliminarily attributed to human error, rather than any issue with the robot itself; prosecutors are contemplating whether to charge anybody. (MSN)
