Portal:Current events/2009 June 13
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June 13, 2009 (Saturday)
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reelected as the President of Iran, although opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi demands a recount. (BBC News)
- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers a speech regarding the state's financial crisis, favoring state spending cuts rather than the issuing of bonds. (Los Angeles Times)
- North Korea:
- North Korea announces it will "weaponise all plutonium" and begin uranium enrichment following United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874 against the country. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
- South Korea sends troops to the North Korean border as tensions escalate. (Telstra Bigpond News)
- China begins the third large-scale excavation of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in 24 years. (Xinhua)
- The planned launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour is scrubbed because of a gaseous hydrogen leak. (NASA)
- Pakistani warplanes strike a stronghold of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan. (Reuters)
- Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom celebrates her 83rd birthday at Trooping the Colour. (Fox News)