Portal:Current events/2009 June 15
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June 15, 2009 (Monday)
- Iran
- Presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi calls for the presidential election results to be annulled. (BBC)
- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei orders an inquiry into claims of electoral fraud. (AFP via News Limited)
- Thousands of protestors gather in Tehran in support of Mir Hossein Mousavi, defying a government ban on protests. (Al Jazeera) (Xinhua)
- At least one person is killed and many wounded during clashes between police and protesters in Tehran. (Sky News)
- Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's president, meets U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington to talk about North Korea. (The Washington Times)
- Pierre Ngaiohni is elected Vice President of New Caledonia. (RNZI)
- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces that an independent inquiry into the country's role in the Iraq War will be held in private. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- Leaders gather in Yekaterinburg, Russia, ahead of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the first ever BRIC summit. (AFP) (Xinhua)
- India, the defending champions and favorites at the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, are defeated by England. (BBC)
- The European Union announces it will help resettle detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. (Reuters)
- Five Cubans convicted of spying for Cuba are denied an appeal for a new trial by the United States Supreme Court. (CNN)
- Notorious Melbourne Gangland figure Desmond "Tuppence" Moran is shot dead outside Deli Cafe in Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia. [1]