Portal:Current events/2006 June 5
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June 5, 2006 (Monday)
- Javier Solana, foreign policy chief of the European Union, arrives in Tehran to talk with the Iranian Government about its plans to develop uranium enrichment facilities. (CNN)
- The Islamic Court Union announces that it has seized Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, after battles with the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counterterrorism, a group of secular US-backed warlords. (AP)
- Alan García of the APRA is re-elected President of Peru after winning a runoff with the Union for Peru's Ollanta Humala on Sunday. (FoxNews.com)
- Serbia confirms the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro and declares independence. (BBC)
- Australia calls for more South East Asian troops and police to help quell civil unrest in East Timor. (Reuters)