Portal:Current events/2007 June 10
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June 10, 2007 (Sunday)
- The Palestinian Journalist Syndicate criticizes Islamic Jihad militants for using a vehicle marked with a "TV" sign to approach Gaza's frontier border with Israel in an attempt to kidnap an Israel Defense Forces soldier from a position across the border. (Haaretz)
- On the Sunday talk show Meet the Press, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell calls for the immediate closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. (NBC News)
- France holds a parliamentary election; early projections indicate that President Nicolas Sarkozy's center-right UMP party will secure a comfortable victory. (BBC)
- Belgium holds a general election. Liberal Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is expected to lose power to the Christian Democrats of Yves Leterme. (Reuters)
- Five people are killed in a ferry fire in the Philippines. (AP)
- President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai escapes an apparent assassination attempt.