Portal:Current events/2009 June 6
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June 6, 2009 (Saturday)
- The European Union's parliamentary election continues in Cyprus, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and France's overseas departments and territories. (Europarl)
- The ruling party Fianna Fáil endures significant losses in Ireland's local elections and parliamentary by-elections in Dublin Central and Dublin South. (AFP) (BBC) (The Times)
- The Conservative Party gains seven county councils, the Liberal Democrats lose one, and the Labour Party loses four during the United Kingdom's local elections. (BBC)
- Twenty-six people are killed during and 100 others remain missing after a landslide near Chongqing, China. (BBC)
- Seventy-six people die at Harmony Gold's mine in Free State, South Africa. (BBC)
- A fire at a day-care center kills at least 40 people in Hermosillo, Mexico. (BBC) (Fox) (RTÉ)
- Fifty-two people die during combat between Peru's Army and indigenous peoples in the Amazon Rainforest. (Reuters)
- At least 36 people die during combat between the Transitional Federal Government and Islamist militants in Webho, Somalia. (BBC)
- Two male bodies and several luggage items are recovered from Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean. (BBC)
- The Philippines' Army kill 30 Moro Islamic Liberation Front members and capture a "bomb factory" on Mindanao. (BBC)
- Former West Berlin police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras is revealed to have spied for East Germany's Stasi. (BBC)
- Harvard University discovers a molecular mechanism that regulates coagulation. (BBC)
- The American Cemetery and Memorial honors World War II veterans who landed at Normandy, France, in 1944. (CNN)
- The International Labour Organization requests that Burma's government amend a clause in its Constitution that may justify forced labor. (AFP)
- Palm, Inc. launches its new Palm Pre smartphone. (Reuters)