Portal:Current events/2009 June 22
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June 22, 2009 (Monday)
- A subway train derailment and collision on the Red Line of the Washington Metro kills at least nine and injures at least 70. (NBC Washington) (WTOP)
- 2009 Iranian election protests:
- The Iranian Revolutionary Guard warns that it will 'crush' any further protests. (Al Jazeera)
- Iranian riot police in large numbers clash with about 3,000 protesters in Tehran. (Guardian)
- A major international conference in Sydney looks at how to expand Internet domain names. (ABC)
- A plan to create a modern Silk Route of roads and railways linking East Asia with Europe makes its first substantial progress. (BBC)
- Brazilian officials identify the first 11 of 50 bodies recovered from Air France Flight 447. (AFP via Google)
- Officials gather in Madeira to strike a deal on whaling, with Japan and Iceland likely to insist on their right to hunt. (Al Jazeera)
- For the first time in 136 years, the Congress of France convenes in the Palace of Versailles to listen to an address by the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. (Associated Press)
- Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai insists the coalition government is tackling the country's dire humanitarian and economic crisis at a talk at Southwark Cathedral in London. (Sky News)
- Conservative MP John Bercow is elected the new Speaker of the British House of Commons. (BBC)
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls for the burqa to be banned in France. (BBC) (The Times of India)
- The email at the heart of the Utegate scandal in Australia is declared a forgery by Federal Police. (News Limited)