Portal:Current events/2012 June 3
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June 3, 2012 (Sunday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Syrian uprising (2011–present):
- Sporadic fighting continues in Tripoli, Lebanon, between supporters and opponents of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. (The Daily Star)
- A U.S. drone attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region kills at least 10 suspected militants. (AP via Boston Herald)
- A suicide car bombing outside a church in the Nigerian city of Bauchi kills 15 people and injures 42 others. (AFP via Google News) (The Nation)
Arts and culture
- The Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom reaches its peak with a pageant on the River Thames. (BBC)
Disasters
- A plane carrying 153 people on board crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and 10 people on the ground. (CNN)
International relations
- United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta visits a former U.S. base in Cam Ranh Bay, the first visit by an American official of cabinet rank to Vietnam since the Vietnam War. (AFP via Yahoo News)
Law and crime
- Police in China crack down on political activists marking the 23rd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. (The Daily Times)
- Police in Japan arrest Naoko Kikuchi, a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and one of the two fugitives still at large wanted over the deadly sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in March 1995. (BBC)
Politics
- Demonstrations take place in Turkey against a proposed plan to limit the time for abortions. (Al Jazeera)
- Speaking on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show, British Prime Minister David Cameron says that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt "acted wisely" in his handling of the BSkyB takeover bid. (BBC)
Sports
- In golf, Tiger Woods wins the Memorial Tournament played at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, tying with Jack Nicklaus for PGA Tour victories. (AP via Google News)
- Alexander Serebryakov wins cycling's Philadelphia International Championship. (VeloNation)