Portal:Current events/2009 June 20
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June 20, 2009 (Saturday)
- Iran
- Riot police clash with protesters in Tehran. (The Times) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- A suicide bomb reportedly explodes at the shrine of former Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. (CTV) (Reuters) (Press TV)
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi renews calls for the election results to be annulled. (Xinhua)
- The Guardian Council announces it will randomly recount 10% of ballot boxes. (China Daily) (Sify)
- A sunken ship believed to carry over US$15 million in gold is located in the Magellan Straits off the coast of Argentina. (BBC)
- The United States admits its forces failed to follow their own rules in an Afghan airstrike that may have led up to 140 civilian deaths. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- A New Zealand jury convicts Nai Yin Xue, who sparked an international hunt in 2007, of murdering his wife. (New Zealand Herald) (Melbourne Herald Sun)
- Greece's Acropolis Museum in Athens is unveiled. (BBC)
- The bodies of two British hostages in Iraq are discovered. (The Telegraph)
- Attacks on Romanians in Belfast
- New York Times reporter David S. Rohde, kidnapped by the Taliban seven months ago, escapes. (The New York Times)
- Indian troops enter Lalgarh, a Maoist stronghold in West Bengal, claiming a partial victory. (Press Trust of India) (Al Jazeera)
- At least 67 people are killed and over 200 are injured in a suicide attack near Kirkuk in Iraq. (RTÉ) (BBC)