Portal:Current events/2013 June 27
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June 27, 2013 (Thursday)
Business and economy
- European leaders agree to back a deal on the European Union's long-term budget after a deal is done on a rebate for the United Kingdom. (Reuters)
International relations
- The President of South Korea Park Geun-hye arrives in the People's Republic of China for four days of talks with the President of China Xi Jinping in an effort to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (AP)
Law and crime
- A US federal grand jury issues a thirty count indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his alleged role in the Boston Marathon bombings. (New York Times)
Politics and elections
- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is reelected as President of Mongolia. (Associated Press via The Globe and Mail)
- Kevin Rudd is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Australia with Anthony Albanese as the Deputy Prime Minister. (ABC News Australia)
Science
- NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun, from the US state of California. (IRIS Mission Updates)
Sports
- In basketball, the 2013 NBA Draft gets underway in Brooklyn, New York with the Cleveland Cavaliers selecting Canadian player Anthony Bennett as the first pick of the draft. (Bloomberg)