Portal:Current events/2009 June 8
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June 8, 2009 (Monday)
- At least 18 factory workers are killed when their bus collides with a truck in the Nile Delta, Egypt. (Irish Examiner)
- Lloyds Banking Group repay £2.56 billion to Her Majesty's Government to compensate for partial nationalisation on 19 January 2009. (Times)
- The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sale of Chrysler to Fiat in Indiana State Police Pension Trust v. Chrysler. (Bloomberg)
- Four men, including Real Irish Republican Army members Michael McKevitt and Colm Murphy, are declared responsible for the bombing of Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, in 1998. (Reuters) (RTÉ)
- The Minister of State for Farming and the Environment, Jane Kennedy, announces her resignation from the Government of the United Kingdom. (BBC)
- Pope Benedict XVI is reportedly "visibly upset" after hearing the findings of Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. (RTÉ)
- Gabonese President Omar Bongo dies of a heart attack at age 73. (BBC)
- Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour. (Sky News)
- North Korea restricts access to the Sea of Japan, near Wonsan, from June 10–30, possibly indicating future missile testing. (AFP via News Limited)
- Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans, Louisiana, is quarantined in Shanghai, China, after a passenger on his flight from the United States was diagnosed with A(H1N1) influenza. (BBC)
- European Union's parliamentary elections:
- The centre-right European People's Party increases its plurality. (BBC)
- Libertas Institute leader Declan Ganley announces his intention to retire from politics. (RTÉ)
- In a referendum held alongside European Parliament elections, voters in Denmark agreed to change their Acts of Succession to eliminate male preference in their line of succession. (AAP via TV New Zealand)
- In a legislative election held alongside European Parliament elections, the Christian Social People's Party increase their plurality in Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies. (AFP via NASDAQ)
- The third acid attack since December 2008 occurs in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. (The Standard)
- Apple Inc. debuts the third generation of its iPhone line, iPhone 3GS at Worldwide Developers Conference 2009. (Apple website)